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.
What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.
We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.
And thus it came to pass that the Silmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of the heart of the world, and one in the deep waters.
Certainly, I was typed. But what is typing? It is a trademark, a means by which the public recognizes you. Actors work all their lives to achieve that. I got mine with just one picture. It was a blessing.
You don't make a photograph just with a camera
What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.
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