In the end all collaborations are love stories.
Interpretation
Collaborations are rooted in connection and mutual affection.
Twyla Tharp's quote emphasizes the idea that every collaborative effort, whether in art, business, or any field, is ultimately driven by relationships and the love for the work and the people involved. It suggests that at the core of successful collaborations lies a bond that goes beyond mere professional interaction, highlighting the intrinsic emotional ties that fuel creativity and teamwork.
In practice
During a team-building workshop, this quote can inspire participants to see their interactions in a new light.
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.
As I radiate love and goodwill to others, I will open the channel for God's love to come to me.
At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have been more capable of visiting a woman of the streets than of raising Cosetteβs dress above the ankle. Once on a moonlit night, Cosette stopped to pick up something from the ground, her dress loosened and revealed the swelling of her breasts. Marius averted his eyes.
Your spirit is mingled with mine what touches you, touches me.
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom.
Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There is instant communication.
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
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