I Think Twyla [tharp] Has A Lot

You Dance Love, And You Dance Joy, And You Dance Dreams. And I Know If I Can Make You Smile By Jumping Over A Couple Of Couches Or Running Through A Rainstorm, Then I'll Be Very Glad To Be A Song And Dance Man.

Fred Astaire Represented The Aristocracy, I Represented The Proletariat.

At The Time The Quickest Way To Establish Yourself As An American Was To Throw A Little Bit Of Tap Into Your Dance - Even When It Wasn't Called For. But What Also Helped Me Was The Fact That I Was Dancing In Roles That I Had Played.

When I Would Create A Dance, I Wouldn't Have The Luxury That Ballet People Do When They Take A Piece Of Music And Impose A Dance Upon It. What We Did In Motion Pictures Was Have A Song And Within That Song Try To Elaborate. My Usual Method Was To Do What A Writer Does: Get A Plot.

The Way I Look At A Musical, You Are Commenting On The Human Condition No Matter What You Do. A Musical May Be Light And Frivolous, But By Its Very Nature, It Makes Some Kind Of Social Comment.