Twyla Tharp
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Not many people are looking at their 61st year of work.
So that's like, okay, so show us.
Well, maybe I don't want to.
You can do that again too.
No, because my dancers don't fail.
That's why I work with dancers who want to work as hard as I do.
Yeah, when you're working, you don't know if it's a failure or not.
You only know if it's useful.
You know if it's exciting.
You know if it generates a next question.
You don't know if it's good or bad.
It depends on where you are in this wonderful word called process.
If you are at the beginning, it's all more fluid.
And while the one key ingredient I have always found to doing work is you've got to be able to do a schedule.
You've got to be able to tell people what time they're coming and what shoes to bring.
OK, that's already actually made a lot of choices for you.