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Twyla Tharp's troupe bolsters its ballet bent
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Some dance fans consider Twyla Tharp a ballet choreographer. She
did, after all, create "Push Comes to Shove" and "Nine Sinatra
Songs," works associated with Mikhail Baryshnikov.
And Tharp's first hit with a national, general audience was
"Deuce Coupe," created in the mid-1970s for the Joffrey Ballet. She
mixed Joffrey's dancers with members of her own company and sent them
slithering and bopping across the stage to tunes by the Beach Boys.
But Tharp cannot be pigeonholed. Th...
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TWYLA HASN'T LOST A STEP FAMED CHOREOGRAPHER'S CREATIVITY FLOWS NONSTOP
Rocky Mountain News
; ... bring her ensemble back into circulation. These unusual moves seemed an obvious place to begin a brief interview. "There's no news here," she snapped when asked about the decision to hibernate. "It's more productive to talk about the current company." And ...
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TWYLA HASN'T LOST A STEP FAMED CHOREOGRAPHER'S CREATIVITY FLOWS NONSTOP.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; Byline: Marc Shulgold ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS Twyla Tharp would prefer to let her work speak for itself. The intense ... seemed an obvious place to begin a brief interview. ``There's no news here,'' she snapped when asked about the decision to hibernate ...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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Twyla Tharp lives in creative motion
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
; ELLEN DUNKEL, SPECIAL TO THE RECORD The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 07-25-2003 Twyla Tharp lives in creative motion -- From ballet to Broadway to book tours By ELLEN DUNKEL, SPECIAL TO THE RECORD Date: 07-25-2003, Friday Section: GO! Edtion: All EditionsTwo Star B. Two Star P. One Star B
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Twyla Tharp dazzles at Jacob's Pillow.(Arts and Lifestyle)
The Boston Herald
; Twyla Tharp Dance, at Jacob's Pillow, Becket, Saturday. Sometimes you have to exaggerate to make your point, Twyla Tharp said to the audience as she inspected dancer John Selya. He was wearing army fatigues and a headband, and had an enormous peace sign scrawled across his bare chest and a thick,
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Twyla Tharp dancers end series on a polished note
Chicago Sun-Times
; Twyla Tharp Dance Twyla Tharp Dance, "Untitled," choreography by Twyla Tharp to Sonata for Two Pianos, D Major, K. 448 by Mozart; "Fugue," choroegraphy by Tharp; "Nine Sinatra Songs," choroegraphy by Tharp. All lighting by Jennifer Tipton. Ravinia Festival, Saturday night. Chances are the Twyla
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`Untitled' adds to Twyla Tharp's impressive name
Chicago Sun-Times
; Twyla Tharp Dance "Baker's Dozen," choreography by Twyla Tharp, music by Willie "The Lion" Smith, costumes by Santo Loquasto and lighting by Jennifer Tipton; "Untitled," choreography by Tharp, music by Philip Glass, costumes by Norma Kamali and lighting by Tipton. Thursday night, Ravinia Festival,
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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TWYLA CINCINNATI BALLET DANCES THARP'S 'BAKER'S DOZEN'.(Living)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
; Byline: Jerry Stein, Post arts writer The Cincinnati Ballet offers up an important piece of choreographic history when it presents Twyla Tharp's classic Baker's Dozen, a company premiere opening Friday at the Aronoff Center, downtown. For general audiences, this noted choreographer, soon to turn
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 "The Independent (London, England)")
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DANCE: The avant-garde traditionalist; Twyla Tharp is thrilled to be back at Sadler's Wells - and now she's more than a `funny' name.(Features)
The Independent (London, England)
; Byline: Charlotte Cripps Twyla Tharp, one of America's great choreographers, is excited. She has just won two Tony Awards for the Broadway hit, Movin' Out, set to music by Billy Joel - and she's looking forward to performing at Sadler's Wells with her newly reformed troupe, Twyla Tharp Dance. I've
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DANCE
The Independent - London
; IT IS A religious experience. By the end of In the Upper Room, everyone is ecstatic, including the dancers. Well, Twyla Tharp always says she does "God's work". A wondrous classic, the piece will long outlive its great creator. She is one of America's most acclaimed and eclectic modern dance
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Billy Joel, Twyla Tharp are MOVIN' OUT'
Redlands Daily Facts
; LOS ANGELES Broadway/LA announces that "MOVIN' OUT," the Tony Award-winning new dance musical conceived, choreographed and directed by Twyla Tharp and based on 24 classic songs by Billy Joel, will play a strictly-limited six-week engagement at Hollywood's historic Pantages Theatre Sept. 14 through
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