Tharp, Twyla Filmography

• The 64th Annual Tony Awards
  2010, role: actress
• The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts
  2008, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The 57th Annual Tony Awards
  2003, role: actress , character name: Herself - Winner: Best Choreographer & Nominee: Best Director of a Musical
• The Making of 'Amadeus'
  2002, role: actress , character name: Herself - Choreographer
• I'll Do Anything
  1994, role: miscellaneous crew
• Dancing
  1993, role: actress , character name: Herself
• White Nights
  1985, role: miscellaneous crew
• Amadeus
  1984, role: miscellaneous crew
• Amadeus
  1984, role: miscellaneous crew
• Happy Birthday, Bob!
  1983, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The Catherine Wheel
  1982, role: director
• The Catherine Wheel
  1982, role: miscellaneous crew
• Ragtime
  1981, role: miscellaneous crew
• Hair
  1979, role: miscellaneous crew
• Zorns Lemma
  1970, role: actress
• Tank Dive: Excerpts
  1965, role: miscellaneous crew
• Tank Dive: Excerpts
  1965, role: actress

Famous quotes by Twyla Tharp:

"As is my wont, I did my research. I listened to all the recordings and I read everything about Bob I could find."

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

"I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter."

"In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry."

"Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing."

"With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances."

"There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything."

"I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to."

"I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies."

"I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand."

"The formal education that I received made little sense to me."

"I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me."

"It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer."

"I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!"

"The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts."

"In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them."

"I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot."

"Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them."

"My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching."

"I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving."