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She is an American dancer & choreographer, born on July 2nd, 1941 in Portland, Indiana, USA. She currently lives in New York City. She is 72 years old, and still has her own company where she still choreographs. As a child, Tharp danced jazz, tap dance, ballet & modern. She also played all sorts of instruments such as piano, drum, viola and violin. She studied English, German & French. She was in a family of 6, including her. ( 1 sister, 2 brothers)

Tharps parents opened a drive in movie theater, and that was where she started working at the age of 8. Her parents always encouraged her to work with arts ever since a little girl. She then attended Vera Lynn School of Dance. She had almost no social time because she was always busy learning new things got to do with dance, and music. When she was transferred to Barnard College in New York, she graduated with an Art History degree in 1963. She then studied with a lot of other famous dancers such as Richard Thomas, Martha Graham & Merce Cunningham. Later that year she joined Paul Taylor Dance Company.

Tharps first choreographed dance was only years after she had joined dance business professionally, Tank Dive. A year after that, in 1966 she formed her own company Twyla Tharp Dance. The years were very busy and successful for Tharp. She started to perform internationally from 1971-988. In 1988 she merged with American Ballet Theatre, which held 16 of her best pieces. She choreographed for companies such as:
Paris Opera Ballet The Royal Ballet New York City Ballet Boston Ballet Joffrey Ballet Pacific Northwest Ballet Miami City Ballet Hubbard Street Dance Martha Graham Dance Company

Her best international performances were:

1973- Deuce Cope 1976- Push Comes to Shove

2000 2001 2002 2003

The Doris Duke Awards for New Work Womens Project & Productions Exceptional Achievement Award New York Awards Lifetime Achievement Drama Desk Award Outstanding Choreography: Movin' Out Tony Award Best Choreography: Movin' Out Drama League Outstanding Achievement Award for Musical Theatre TDF/Astaire Award Best Choreographer: Movin' Out Indiana Living Legend, Indiana Historical Society Glamour Woman of the Year Award Outstanding Contribution to the Arts Award North Carolina School of the Arts

2004

National Medal of Arts Vietnam Veterans of America Presidents Award for Excellence in the Arts Independent Reviewers of New England Award Best Choreography: Movin' Out. Broadway in Boston Goddard Space Flight Centers Center Directors Colloquium Citation for Enlightening, Creative and Thought-Provoking Presentation

2005

Best Choreography: Movin' Out. Touring Broadway Awards Jane Addams Medal for Distinguished Service presented by Rockford College

Princess Grace Award Outstanding Artistry Critics Circle Dance Award Outstanding Choreography: Movin' Out. London

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Honorary Degree, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Honorary Degree, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Touring Broadway Award: Best Choreography for a touring show for Movin' Out

The Jerome Robbins Prize The Kennedy Center Honors

U.S. News & World Report: listed on "America's Best Leaders"

The IAL Diamond Award for Achievement in the Arts, presented by Columbia University's The Varsity Show The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreographer: Come Fly Away Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by The American Academy of Hospitality Sciences Suzi Bass Award for Best Choreography: "Come Fly With Me"

2011 2013

Honorary Degree, The Juilliard School, New York, NY Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by Tribeca Film Festival

One of Tharps biggest influences were that she had pressure from her parents ever since was a little girl to do many type of arts, and that was a good influence on her because she did so many arts such as music, theatre & dance which made her connect more with dance because when you are dancing to a song, and you have an emotion you need to feel the song and you have to have a certain emotion when dancing so that it the audience forgets you and looks at the character dancing and the reason Tharp could do that is because she did it ever since a little girl which only added onto her extremely amazing talent.

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. Twyla Tharp

Twyla Tharps is now 72, and she is no longer as flexible and as active as she was 20 years ago, of course. She has taught for several years, most of her life. She still teaches, but her dancers from ages ago who are now successful in life and are choreographers started off with little kids, and it Twyla Tharp's dance has became a legacy because her students teach their students, and their students teach their students, and so on, so on. Until today people that dont dance for Tharp are learning her dance, and she is more than okay with it.

Deuce Corpe, is the first crossover ballet and it was by Twyla Tharps.

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influenced our dance because Twyla Tharps does this thing where she does several moves, to prove a point. She doesnt move on to the next chapter quickly, she will do different moves to prove her point, and that gave us the idea to have many people bully me in our dance piece Breath Me by Sia, to show how badly I am suffering, and need help and that bullying is actually a problem.

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