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Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp, one of America's greatest choreographers, began her career in 1965, and has created more than 130 dances for her company as well as for the Joffrey Ballet, The New York City Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, London's Royal Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre. She has won two Emmy awards... show more
Twyla Tharp, one of America's greatest choreographers, began her career in 1965, and has created more than 130 dances for her company as well as for the Joffrey Ballet, The New York City Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, London's Royal Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre. She has won two Emmy awards for television's Baryshnikov by Tharp, and a Tony Award for the Broadway musical Movin' Out. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1993 and was made an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1997. She lives and works in New York City.
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Birth date: July 01, 1941
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it's all small stuff
it's all small stuff rated it 14 years ago
Although the book began well, in my opinion it didn't really progress in the same fashion. I abandoned it about 1/3 of the way in, having leafed through and read several pages in different spots further in - and it became quite apparent I'd gotten all I could glean from it, which wasn't much. The ...
A Scottish-Canadian Blethering On About Books
[These notes were made in 1993:]. I read this very recently published autobiography on the weekend before going to see Tharp and Baryshnikov perform in their touring show Cutting Up. I was glad I did, for it gave me a stronger sense of the personality behind the eclectic creativity I saw on stage th...
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