Twyla Tharp

This is genuinely a way to become extremely neurotic, and it's a very difficult task.

In some ways, it's very rewarding because the whole thing evolves from you and plus which you're the jury.

But it's not going to be, you can't maintain it for very long.

And anybody who makes something wants to have, anybody wants to have the capacity to be unemotional about it, get back, forget how you feel about it.

What does it say to you?

You, in a way, become your own translator.

Does this read?

This is very, very difficult because you have to love what you're doing.

Anything that's going to be really meaningful, there has to be an extraordinary degree of love.

And we do refer in my office to, you know, the child of that work, each dance in a way is your gift and it's your child.

And somebody's out here and they're going to slit its throat.

How are you supposed to feel about that?

Also because what we do is very, very personal.

Musicians translate it into sound.

There's a certain distancing from them personally.

We're very personal.

You speak bad of my dance, you speak bad of my body.

I don't go down so well.

Right.

So it's difficult to process the exterior critic's word.