Twyla Tharp

It was across the boards.

It was very difficult for me societally.

But I was grounded in music.

I was grounded in movement.

I was grounded in these different forms of community activity, including string quartets.

I was grounded in the family-owned Foothill Drive-In Theater between Rialto and Fontana.

Okay, I grew up.

from the time I was eight until I went to college, watching a screen and getting myself into the snack bar when there would be a run on hot dogs because it was really boring up here.

And I saw boring come get to the snack bar, sell hot dogs, okay?

Plus, which it was a place where the speakers often didn't work.

There were a lot of cars, 600 cars.

It was a big, big movie house, okay?

And a big screen.

And so I learned to watch action and without sound.

And I learned to watch movement and what communicated without language.

Well, even more, I had twin brothers and a sister who was born three days before they were a year old.

So essentially, they were triplets.

And my mother gave up and started feeding them all with the same spoon and put them in the same room.

And they developed atolalia, which happens with, you probably know this, a certain percentage of twins.

A language before they learn to speak English, they evolve because they're so