Twyla Tharp
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Podcast Appearances
And that brings up another thing because in a way it's a kind of horrible thinking to go, yeah, it's a privilege.
You know what?
You can't pay me.
You can't buy me.
I don't have a price.
And that I'm sure is one of the things in great dancers who are certainly not paid, as I've said before, and I'll say at least 300,000 times more, commensurate with a great athlete.
That is probably one, and I've never actually, I've never brought it up directly with a great dancer.
How much is it your own sense of independence and liberty?
that makes you the artist that you are.
First of all, Misha Moore these days actually is remembered by younger generations from his later cultural input, i.e.
Sex and the City, than he is as a classical ballet artist, all right?
Let's just start there.
Show business is a funny thing.
And that's how he is often recognized by younger audiences, younger, you know, folk.
What was he in the beginning?
He was, actually, there was a cellist, then there was Nureyev, and then Misha.
Politically, he came across the line.
It was Russia-America.
He chose America.