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'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.

~Twyla Tharp

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If I didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph.

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My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer.

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Counterpoint is a component that gives real energy, and it is about optimism.

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The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

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It's very difficult for me to do fund raising for my own organization if I'm working for other companies because sponsors will say, 'Well, hey, man, if she's doing a ballet for Ballet Theatre, we'll give money to Ballet Theatre.'

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I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

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I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys.

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I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.

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Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dancer

Born: July 1st, 1941

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