Twyla Tharp
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We can't make life totally nice.
It is partially what it is.
Choose something else.
Often, and I'm not alone in this, one hears it often, a parent or a child even will come up, can I be a dancer?
I say, don't do it.
Find something else if you possibly can.
If you can't, be a dancer.
I mean, and there are other folks who will find their own way to address that line and who will massage that line.
And as part of creativity is addressing those old lines of boundaries, classical, modern.
Well, but unfortunately, telling a kid not to do it is a bait and can just engender, I want to do it just to prove that.
you're going to go up against authority.
That's not the right reason to select.
Better to just say, you got to really, really want to do this.
Even more, can't you find something else?
And if they can question it, they don't want to do it enough.
I would buy that.
Yeah, I'd buy that.