Twyla Tharp Analytical Essay by The Research Group

Twyla Tharp
An overview of the life and career of this American dancer/choreographer.
# 14411 | 675 words | 3 sources | 1999 | US
Published on Jul 18, 2003 in Dance (History) , Dance (General)


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Twyla Tharp is one of the world's leading choreographers, working with many of the world's great ballet companies and also continuing to choreograph and direct for film and television. She was born in Portland, Indiana, but moved with her parents to Southern California when she was still a child.

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"Twyla Tharp is one of the world's leading choreographers, working with many of the world's great ballet companies and also continuing to choreograph and direct for film and television. She was born in Portland, Indiana, but moved with her parents to Southern California when she was still a child. There, her father owned a construction firm and a Ford dealership, and her mother was a piano teacher who started Twyla on piano lessons when she was only two. Twyla began dance classes when she was only four, and within a short time she was studying every kind of dance available: ballet, tap, jazz, modern. Her mother was determined that Twyla would become accomplished in as many fields as possible, and she also had the child take baton lessons, drum lessons, violin and viola lessons, as well as classes in painting, shorthand, and French ("Biography: Twyla ..."

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