Twyla Tharp
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And they'll be on the same metronomic base, but they'll be operating at a different speed.
Certainly I would think of that.
When I think about power, that sometimes you can isolate through the center and there will be like a huge impact from the top, but that the body, the lower body will be fluid sometimes.
I mean, I've ripped off Tai Chi forever.
So we're doing Tai Chi and suddenly we're going, and then we're back into it, right?
So it's just like a jolt goes through it, and I suppose that's a change in โ
your neurological construct.
I mean, what interests me in what you're saying is a part of the nightmare of my life, which is dance has difficulty.
And one of the reasons it has difficulty in being registered by many people in our culture is that it doesn't have easy access to being documented and recorded in the way that music does or language does.
What you're saying, I've argued for many years, should be a way of documenting movement that people could read.
And then they could read the dance.
And then they would feel grounded in that tradition and understanding of that tradition.
They could study that tradition.
That's not now possible.
The beginning and the end.
What do I mean?
In the beginning, you hope for it and you have a little taste of it or you wouldn't be able to, I wouldn't be able to start without the tiniest little indication there's something there that's actually going to hook it and that's going to allow me to start building and
This is where process becomes very reassuring.