Twyla Tharp

But in the meantime, you're shortchanging your technique because you're not asking the audience to just gauge you on what you can do physically but how you can sell it because you want those points, and so do your parents.

So these competitions, in a way, are very difficult.

And for a long time, I wouldn't work with competition-trained dancers.

Now I find that it's broadened and that the kids are more sophisticated in the ways that they attack technique for performing.

And they're also hardened in a way.

I can put them in younger.

I don't worry they're going to be nervous.

They're not going to be nervous.

They were nervous when they were out here trying to get, you know, graded 30 points on the Wada Wada and the Wicha Wicha to get the hits for the Wada Wada.

And, you know, they're no longer nervous about squat.

So put them in.

This is great.

But in the meantime...

They are doing it for reasons outside of the thing itself, for what they can gain from it, from their internet hits, from their hanga, their hina, their wadawada, as opposed to just doing it for the thing itself and taking what comes from it.

It's different.

And what the kid will accomplish because they won't have to do it the hard way.

They'll do it the easy way if it works as well.

I was always trained to do it the hard way.

You can always do it the easy way, train for the hard way.

And I can see that in performers.