Twyla Tharp
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Podcast Appearances
That's a service.
I think dancers should be
paid more for that service and that it needs to be acknowledged.
The other point that I want to bring up is you've used it twice now.
I didn't stop you the first word.
Beauty, what is this?
And in a live audience becomes, of course, a whole other thing about costs and expenditures, but that it confirms that not only do you feel a new righteousness for yourself by a performance, but that you sense others do as well.
And that creates a community bonding.
And, you know, okay, football games, you know, everybody is very rowdy about it.
Most performances, people are not.
But that doesn't mean that it still doesn't take that hold of people who are experiencing the same thing in real time.
We tend to dismiss that which is familiar.
And that sense of...
is actually not all that familiar, but it feels very intimate, and it is.
But it actually is quite rare.
And the rarer a piece of art, and I will call a performance a piece of art, is, the more value it has.
And the more that is compensated for culturally and economically.
There should be a price point on beauty.
Let's put it that way.