Shut up and Dance
I love this PBS interview with dancer and choreographer, Twyla Tharp... now 81 and still vibrantly active! In it, she talks about about her new dance and her new “self-survival” book, entitled “Keep it Moving: Lessons for the Rest of Your Life,” which she wrote to (in her own words), “help others believe that constantly you can be evolving, that you don’t accept the ‘rumor’ that as the body ages it becomes less; it becomes different, hopefully more.”
In the interview she talks about stagnation being the enemy, not age. She also re-frames failure as “adventures of a different sort,” in which “you may not have gotten what you set out to get, but there is something to be learned from everything.”
Her parting wisdom in the interview, “I look at the past to see there, what works, and let go of what doesn’t work, and build on what does work... Shut up and do what you love, and be grateful, and keep doing it, and stop second guessing it.”
