Twyla Tharp Quotes

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

Twyla Tharp

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• I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Always
  • Mirror
  • Looking

• I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Think
  • Body

• The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Time
  • Career
  • House

• I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Dance
  • Three
  • Ballet

• I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Single
  • Space
  • Feelings

• There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • New

• I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Community
  • Myself
  • Ballet

• I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Jazz
  • Ballet
  • Once

• Fighting crime requires a partnership between the police and the community. And we all know that this partnership has been tested in Chicago. It is a problem that has festered in this city for decades.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Community
  • City
  • Fighting

• I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Children
  • Family

• It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Good
  • Running
  • Style

• I started dancing when I was five, and I trained intensively as a competitive dancer up until the end of high school. I did all genres, and later on a did a lot of extra ballet on top of that. I actually got accepted to Julliard for dance during my senior year, but I ultimately turned it down to come to L.A. to act.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Way
  • Body

• I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Church
  • Rock
  • Dance

• I just don't do much social media. No, it is more important to strike a balance between ballet and real life.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Life
  • Important
  • Real

• Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Baseball
  • Ballet

• I was skiing in Deer Valley and there's no people of color up there, and I'm up there, skiing, trying to fit in like an asshole, and I have an instructor and he goes, 'Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but you have a tendency to bow into your skis.' Fuck you! And then I fell.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

  

  Deborah Bull
  • Career
  • Ballet

• The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

  

  George Balanchine
  • Beautiful
  • Garden
  • Ballet

• My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design.

  

  Blake Lively
  • Mom
  • Design
  • Appreciation

• I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Work
  • Always
  • Musician

• My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • New
  • New York
  • View

• I don't wear any make-up on normal days and at school. But, if I'm going somewhere, I always do something with my eyes - crazy colors, sparkles. I'm all for it. I love experimenting.

  

  Elle Fanning
  • Up
  • School
  • Eyes

• I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Ballet