Twyla Tharp Mean Quotations

I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every week. It was silent theater in the sense that this was a drive-in, which meant that I often saw the films going with no sound. But I learned to tell stories through action.

When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.