#twyla tharp

[lucylehane]

You do an eclectic celebration of dance!

The Birdcage (1996)

[davidhudson]

Happy 85th, Twyla Tharp.

Rehearsing “Sinatra Suite” with Mikhail Baryshnikov in 1984. Photo by Richard Avedon.

[book-of-pandora]

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."

Twyla Tharp, Push Comes to Shove

[lottieno9]

Extract from Push Comes to Shove by Twyla Tharp (1992)

[ends-2-beginnings]

After we terrorize ourselves with self-doubt, our only relief is to get moving again.

—Twyla Tharp

An acclaimed American dancer and choreographer, Twyla Tharp has overseen performances for Broadway musicals and national ballets around the world. She ran her own dance troupe for 25 years, choreographed alongside the legendary dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, and has won multiple awards for her work, including a MacArthur Fellowship (1992) and a National Medal of the Arts (2004). Her 2019 book, “Keep It Moving: Lessons for the Rest of Your Life,” urges readers to “get moving”— whether in the form of literal exercise or making decisions in their lives. With this quote, she encourages us to do exactly that, because taking action, even if only in a small way, gets us closer to our goals

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The zeppelin era peaked with Hindenburg. A mechanic checks an engine during a 1936 flight.

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“Your creative endeavors can never be thoroughly mapped out ahead of time. You have to allow for the suddenly altered landscape, the change in plan, the accidental spark– and you have to see it as a stroke of luck rather than a disturbance of your perfect scheme. Habitually creative people are, in E. B. White’s phrase, ‘prepared to be lucky.’”

— Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it for Life

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[dance-world]

Catherine Hurlin and Joseph Markey in Sextet by Twyla Tharp - American Ballet Theatre - photo by Nir Arieli

[cluemami]

Was reading Twyla Tharp's wiki because I hyperlinked to it while I was bored and I know she's the dancer Jujubee named her Dungeons and Drag Queens PC after, and lo and behold:

The OG Twila was the Pig Princess of Muncie Indiana, a town I only know about because of parks and rec.

Anway, 2 paragraphs down I get slapped with knowledge again:

First off, having 2 girls and naming them Twila and Twanette is pokemon rules, but then having twin boys and naming them STANLEY AND STANFORD.

I thought all the satirical USA nostalgia media was overplaying the kitchy americana but NO reality is always weirder.