Twyla Tharp

It's a compromise of sorts.

It's not really a compromise.

It's an agreement.

I'll make that definition because I want them to work from an interior purpose, and the visuals of it are your problem.

Okay.

Can I interrupt you?

It is even more basic because movement is the first thing we're going to do.

And you don't make any sound until you can move parts of you.

You don't feed yourself until you can move that hand.

You don't write anything, language, music, or nada without movement.

Why do we therefore stick movement way down here under the bottom of our cultural heap as somehow shameful or what?

What is it with the aspect of dance that makes it a less kind of revered format

than sculpture or painting or music?

A secondary handmaiden to the arts, really?

Totally.

Sweetness, my love, did we not discuss already much earlier the importance and specificity of center?

Now, what you're saying about the different rates of the tendrils, the neurons, the cellular... Yeah, the neurons that control the trunk versus the upper arms versus the... Yeah, this has got more choice, can make more choice than this can make.

Do I think about the parts of the body as sometimes?

In other words, the legs can be working at one rate of speed, say half-time,

of what the arm is doing.