Dance is just like film in that it allows for thoughts in movement.
Interpretation
Dance expresses thoughts and emotions through physical movement, similar to the way film conveys narratives visually.
In this quote, Twyla Tharp highlights the powerful connection between dance and film, suggesting that both art forms serve as mediums for storytelling and emotional expression. Just as a film can convey complex ideas through images and sequences, dance can embody thoughts and feelings through movement, allowing both the performer and the audience to experience a profound connection that transcends words.
In practice
A dance performance in a theater that illustrates the themes of love and conflict.
Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.
I am still pushing the edge of what my body can do.
No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.
I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every week. It was silent theater in the sense that this was a drive-in, which meant that I often saw the films going with no sound. But I learned to tell stories through action.
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.
Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity
The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.
May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.
My poems getting published in Russia doesn't make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth. I'm not trying to be coy, but it doesn't tickle my ego.
Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about - which included great images, sure, but they had spiritual and political and revolutionary content, too.
There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend, for all I know. And so whenever you pick up the guitar it's not so much the sound of the instrument itself, it's like the ting that you add onto it-the attitude.
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