Master the Creative Process | Twyla Tharp
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Twyla Tharp is a world-renowned dancer, choreographer and expert on the creative process. She explains how to achieve creative success by keeping a highly disciplined routine that ultimately allows you to bring your creative visions to life. She explains how to establish a central message for each project, how to think about your audience, navigate criticism and continually elevate your standards with daily actions. We discuss how one's view of hard work, competition and even your name can shape what you think you're capable of and ultimately achieve. This episode offers direct, practical advice from a world-class creator on how to access your inner vision, build a strong body and mind, and do your best work.
Articles
- Human Tears Contain a Chemosignal (Science)
Books
Other Resources
- Beethoven Diabelli Variations Op 120 Alfred Brendel piano
- Beethoven Diabelli Variations
- Gwyneth Paltrow on Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
- Basquiat
- Amadeus
- Basquiat movie clip - How Long to Get Famous?
- Mikhail Baryshnikov on Sex and the City
- In The Upper Room - Philip Glass & Twyla Tharp
- SLACKTIDE - Philip Glass & Twyla Tharp
- Third Coast Percussion
- Kirov Ballet
- The Telepathy Tapes
- Journal of Comparative Neurology
People Mentioned
- Agatha Christie: English playwright, novelist
- John le Carré: English author
- Judy Garland: American actress, singer
- Jean-Michel Basquiat: American neo-expressionist artist
- Tony Smith: American painter, sculptor, minimalist
- Frank Stella: American sculptor, painter, minimalist
- Robert Motherwell: American painter, graphic artist
- Ad Reinhardt: American painter
- Mikhail Baryshnikov: Latvian-American dancer, choreographer
- Philip Glass: American composer, pianist
- Charles Sherrington: English neurophysiologist, Nobel laureate
- Ed Yong: British-American journalist, writer
- Renée Fleming: American soprano, actress
- Teddy Atlas: American boxing trainer, fight commentator
- Merce Cunningham: American dancer, choreographer
- Steve Reich: American composer, contemporary classical
- Terry Riley: American composer, minimalist
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