Twyla Tharp Quotes

With dancing, so much is about sexuality and sensuality and without life experience it becomes much more of a performance, rather than a living, breathing entity from the soul.

There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.

Dancing has a continuity of its own that need not be dependent upon either the rise or fall of sound or the pitch and cry of words. Its force of feeling lies in the physical image, fleeting or static.

Wrestling is an art. Every culture has an art, like music and dancing and fighting. So that's my base. If I think about it like art, I can connect with everybody.

I can move around the floor, but I don't know if I'd call that dancing!

Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together.

Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

Dance was something that came to me before I could even walk or talk.

My dance background helped me tremendously. Dancing is like second nature to me.

We think that this is just our world and we don't know what other people are thinking. Music actually is a phenomenal connector in that respect. It's a special language that defines certain boundaries and connects people in a particular way, a very emotional way, I have found.

I explained it when I danced it.

If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.

Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.

Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.

My acting style and my physicality lends itself to doing things like putting a scene together for a dancing competition.

I'm bugged because I can't believe I can't speak every language there is. But I feel I can when I sit and am with somebody, and I can dance for them. Because dance is dialogue without language.

Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.

There are tears. There's laughter. There's an unconscious thing happening between us as humans. There's so much about the brain that we don't understand. I believe everybody's empathic.

when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.

As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural.

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done.