Twyla Tharp

And the land was the land, period.

There was no electricity.

There were no phones.

There was plant the seed, grow the seed, kill the hogs.

Ring the chicken's neck and you work or you don't eat.

The delight, in fact.

It is communal, and it is the sense that while these farms are very isolated, I mean, you know, 100-acre plots that are divided by tree barriers from one another, that somebody has your back.

I still have my grandmother's quilting frames, and when established, it requires eight women, four to a side, and the quilt gets done, and then you make eight of them, and each one gets a quilt.

And you know that to do the big job, the barn that's got to get up, you have to utilize forces outside yourself in order to accomplish this, and that you owe, you owe.

And you want to, it's not an obligation, it's a sharing.

And you understand, okay, I'm getting that barn, I owe services here for seven more barns, or whatever.

This is an excellent thing.

And I do try to think of dance that way.

And I do think a well-made dance

is a good community.

It's society as it ought to be.

It works the way we should work together.

Silent meetings?

Yeah, those in those days for me were Wednesday evenings, and they were silent meetings, and there would be meetings where no one had anything to say.

They were silent meetings, and simply...