Twyla Tharp

I'll go through the wall.

And you want to know that you have that in the room.

You're not going to ask them to go through the wall all the time.

But, you know, if it seemed like it was an approach that was going to be useful, you've got to know that that commitment is really solid.

And that's best indicated by their desire.

Not you're finding them totally appropriate, but their desire.

For sure very little pay and forever.

Crazy.

Crazy and, to my way of thinking, not acceptable because I'm all in favor of the folks who do the work and the training to accomplish physically, and I don't make a clear distinction between either folks who are in business or athletes.

To me, it is all the same enterprise, but dancers have nowhere near the possibility of earning a living that a great athlete has, not even sort of kind of in the ballpark, not even in the parking lot, not even on the highway to the ball game.

How did this happen and why does it continue?

Are we taking over your show for the next two and a half years?

Oh, okay.

Can I interrupt you before you go there?

Because I'd like to take up two things.

One is the notion of the reality being that when we do a successful performance of

I measure it by did that audience leave in a better frame of mind than it came in with.

In other words, we provide a service.

And we provide a service that gives them a sense of optimism.

Yea, verily, I might even go to joy to the belief that they too occupy this body that does these phenomenal things and thank you, Lord.