Twyla Tharp

It's not just health.

It's propriety and excellence.

Who wants to nurture and encourage the body to realize its full potential that it was gifted with when it was born?

Okay.

It's an interesting thought.

Which one?

I mean, I respect gymnastics a lot.

I get dancers sometimes who are not ballet trained, but who are gymnastically trained.

They're courageous in a different way.

They have a different center, but they have

They have a willingness to throw through space that a dancer does not or you're not trained in the ballet to throw.

There are moments that you dart forward, but they're very restricted, whereas a gymnast is continuously comfortable with that kind of spatial explosion, which is a beautiful thing.

No, no, they're not allowed to do that.

Sorry.

Something they've got to find that they're good enough at to encourage themselves to respect themselves.

Otherwise they quit.

Yeah, not just etiquette, but also behavior, which group social dance, whether it's ballroom or square dance, there are rules and regulations and there are ways that you know that you can work that are going to respect the traffic pattern, if nothing else, and that's going to transfer to how you drive a car.

And this, you know, gets established early and deeply in a young person.

And, you know, we're talking here, I don't know, second graders, third graders.

I mean, as much as I make light of my mother, and I don't make light of her at all, but sometimes feel challenged by the education that I received, it was not a bad education.