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Well, look at it this way. [Twila] was the name of the princess of a pig-calling fair in Indiana. My mother spelled it T-w-y-l-a. It wasn’t just that she named me Twyla. She changed the “I” to a “Y” because she thought it was better.

She gave you a stage name. ANDIEZ Her Soul Belongs to Music and Ballet Every Time She Dances She is Home Poster

She was thinking ahead. That’s what I learned from my mother. Even more than ambition, even more than the idea that you’re going to become singular or whatever, was think ahead. An “I” doesn’t look good on a marquee.

Do you feel like your mother had workaholic tendencies?

My parents were farm people, and farm people in the era were workaholics. That’s how you raised animals. That’s how you grew corn. That’s how you didn’t die on a farm. You were a workaholic. You got up every day at four o’clock to milk the cows and to get the eggs in. It’s not a workaholic. It’s what you do.

Every stage in the city has been shut down this past year. It’s been hard on performers of all kinds, but have you felt like it’s been particularly difficult for dance?

Dance has suffered enormously. The stages are closed. Dancers have not had work. The prospect of when is it going to come back together again is vague. I’ve been very grateful for this Zoom format, which at least has given a shape and a dialogue to me with workers in terms of, “O.K. We’ve got to have this by ‘X’ date, and this is what it’s going to be.” It’s not as though we’re planning for a vague, amorphous future.

Have you found that there are a lot of dancers who feel despondent? Because you’ve had incredible longevity, but I’m sure that there are a lot of dancers who feel like losing a year of their body, or of being out in the world, is a huge chunk of a career.

It depends on how you define a career. There were years in my working process that if I had waited for somebody to come to me and say, “Oh, here’s an opportunity to do a dance,” I would have lost that year.

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