This show also brought her the Director’s Guild of America Award for Outstanding Director Achievement.
Her dances are known for creativity, wit and technical precision coupled with a streetwise nonchalance. Biography. Today, ballet and dance companies around the world continue to perform Ms. Tharp’s works.In 1965, Ms. Tharp founded her dance company, Twyla Tharp Dance.
Tharp also created choreography for the films Hair (1978), Ragtime (1981), Amadeus (1984), White Nights (1985), and I’ll Do Anything (1994). Tharp then joined the American Ballet Theatre (ABT), with whom she had studied while at Barnard, working primarily as choreographer. Awards of Twyla Tharp, birthday, children and many other facts. Raised and educated in Indiana and Los Angeles, Tharp studied dance from the age of four. In the mid-90s she was again with ABT as choreographer.Tharp’s ballets have been commissioned and performed by the Paris Opéra Ballet, the Royal Ballet, New York City Ballet, City Center Joffrey Ballet, the Boston Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance and the Martha Graham Dance Company.
In 2002, Ms. Tharp’s dance musical MOVIN' OUT, set to the music and lyrics of Billy Joel. 1 July 1941, Portland, Indiana, USA. Trivia (4) In 1965, Ms. Tharp founded her dance company, Twyla Tharp Dance. Twyla Tharp Biography by AllMusic + Follow Artist. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.Today, Ms. Tharp continues to create.In addition to choreographing for her own company, she has created dances for The Joffrey Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, The Paris Opera Ballet, The Royal Ballet, New York City Ballet, The Boston Ballet, The Australian Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, The Martha Graham Dance Company, Miami City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Atlanta Ballet and Royal Winnipeg Ballet.
b. Links. In 1992/3 she toured her ‘Cutting Up’ with Mikhail Baryshnikov. Raised and educated in Indiana and Los Angeles, Tharp studied dance from the age of four. Among her ballets, of which she has created more than 150, are ‘Tank Dive’ (1965), ‘The Fugue’ (1971), ‘Deuce Coupe’ (1973, to music by the Beach Boys), ‘Push Comes To Shove’ (1975, written for Baryshnikov and to music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Scott Joplin), ‘When We Were Very Young’ (1980), staged on Broadway, as was ‘The Catherine Wheel’ (1981, music by David Byrne of Talking Heads), ‘Nine Sinatra Songs’ (1987), ‘The Beethoven Seventh’ (2000), and ‘Movin’ Out’ (2002), set to songs by Billy Joel and staged on Broadway with Tharp winning a Tony Award.b.
Cite this Page: Citation. She has also worked with Taylor Hackford on WHITE NIGHTS and James Brooks on I'LL DO ANYTHING.Ms. When Tharp was eight years old the family moved to the desert town of Rialto, California, where her parents built and operated the local drive-in movie theater. Twyla Tharp was born in Portland, IN on July 1, 1941.Dancer and choreographer known for making use of popular music in ballet.
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