Twyla Tharp

close to one another all the time, and it's a guttural, syllabic form of communication.

I could speak it, but I could certainly understand it.

My parents could not understand it nor speak it, so I became the family translator.

So from day one, I'm observing and serving the audience.

I love it.

And it's nonverbal.

Right.

And a lot of it was signed.

I don't remember a lot of this was bread and butter.

And so very early I got the idea that movement communicates.

Who needs all this garble on top and your brain has got it?

What does that writer laugh at?

That's going to be, that side is going to be right.

You don't need to translate it into language to understand what the movement is asking for.

I think that a word here is objectivity.

That in doing work, there are moments where you have to get outside that work and you have to look at it as an outsider.

I do it by pulling myself out of the action.

I mean...

There were times when I danced, right?

And I danced inside as well as trying to get outside.