Twyla Tharp

It's not a ritual and I never enjoyed it.

It's a reality and you do it because you need an instrument that you can challenge.

Just set the mechanism for the day you're going to have to do it.

It's kind of boring and it's kind of loathsome.

It's simple.

If you don't work when you don't want to work, you're not going to be able to work when you do want to work.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Spine means focus.

Spine means concentration.

If you think about it geometrically, spine is the center, both laterally and vertically.

So if we're talking physically, you have a right and a left side, you have a top and you have a bottom.

And these elements are connected through the center, right?

So, uh,

They have to be coordinated.

You simply cannot function if your right side is going one way and your left side is going this other way, you're going nowhere.

So you have to move off your center.

In terms of how you organize information, there's also a center to it.

It's like, okay, over here you have this and this, and you can transfer what you understand from this arena to inform this side, but it has to pass through a common point, and that common point is the center.

And until you feel that or want anyone working, either physically or let's just use the word very broadly and generically, artistically, until you know where you are