Twyla Tharp Quotes

Sharing is the essence of social media.

We're all in the same room, so I want people to be involved with one another, but again you can't decide exactly to what extent that operates. It varies all the time and it depends on the show, it depends on the audience, it depends on everything.

It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.

Once you choose to enter a WeWork, you choose to be part of something more 'we' than 'me.' People start coming together. They'll see each other in the elevator; they talk in the stairways. There's a thousand other things they do.

The choir tries to perform for everyone. It enables us to be very diversified with our audiences.

I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.

When you decide you're going to join a project, it's all about the gift you're giving the audience.

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

The original idea of blog publishing was that writer and reader would be on the same level. That it would be a conversation - not a lecture. People lost sight of that. We didn't. Kinja is designed to break down the walls of the ghettos. So that everybody - editor, writer, source, subject, expert, fan - can be a contributor.

Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.

The greatest filmmakers are not the ones who put everything in; they're the ones who can figure things to leave out, and in doing so, invite your participation.

Over the years, I have perfected the art of dancing and photographing at the same time: it's a great double act. If you're dancing, you are joining in. If you stand there rigid, you are not in the flow of things.

Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our talk to be only brief and efficient. Taking pauses out of language would be like taking the net away from a tennis game. Where would all the fun go?

I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.

I'm looking for conversations that will be meaningful with people that want to have meaningful connections with an audience.

You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.

I see dance as glue for a community.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.

I really feel that a concert is a place where you can bring up topics, and you can actually discuss them and feel them and have a great time.

Everyone should dance. And everyone should sing. People say, 'Well, I can't sing.' Everybody can sing. That you do it badly is no reason not to sing.

People don't understand that when you come into any theatrical experience, you've got to come locked and loaded, that you're a part of the experience, too. You can't come with your arms crossed. Be open to it.

I really like involvement with an audience.

I think we've built a bit of a culture and a market around people who are open and seek out that social interaction.

People really respond when given an opportunity to take part in something.