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Twyla Tharp: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born July 1, 1941 (age 85) • Indiana
Founder Twyla Tharp Dance
Awards And Honors Kennedy Center Honors (2008)

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Twyla Tharp
Three dancers perform an intricate lift on stage in Twyla Tharp's modern dance Catherine Wheel, with one dancer held horizontally as others support and balance her.
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Martha Graham
Martha Graham
American dancer
Agnes de Mille and Yurek Lazowski performing in Three Virgins and a Devil, 1955
Agnes de Mille
American dancer and choreographer
Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham
American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist
Antony Tudor
Antony Tudor
American dancer
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Mark Morris
American dancer and choreographer
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins
American choreographer
Merce Cunningham poses on a wooden floor in a patterned bodysuit, seated with one leg bent and his arm raised, gazing thoughtfully into the distance.
Merce Cunningham
American dancer and choreographer
Mikhail Baryshnikov performing with the Bolshoi Ballet
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Soviet-born American actor and ballet dancer
Paul Taylor and Bettie de Jong
Paul Taylor
American dancer and choreographer
Jacques d'Amboise
Jacques d’Amboise
American dancer
Alvin Ailey, Jr.
Alvin Ailey, Jr.
American choreographer
Arthur Mitchell
Arthur Mitchell
American dancer
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Alexei Ratmansky
Russian dancer and choreographer
Jooss in The Green Table, c. 1935
Kurt Jooss
German dancer and choreographer
Herbert Ross
Herbert Ross
American dancer and film director
Medusa
Michel Fokine
Russian dancer and choreographer
Misty Copeland
Misty Copeland
American dancer
Isadora Duncan dancing in an amphitheatre in Athens, photograph by Raymond Duncan, 1903.
Isadora Duncan
American dancer
Doris Humphrey
Doris Humphrey
American dancer