What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.
From Twyla Tharp
I see dance as glue for a community.
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.'
I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.
I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.
I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
Art is an investigation.
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