Twyla Tharp

On July 1, 1941, Twyla Tharp was born in the Portland, Indiana. She spent her early childhood in Indiana but later moved to California in 1963 and completed her degree in Art history in New York. Compared to other dancers, at a young age, she learnt quite a number of genres in the arts like ballet, tap, jazz, modern and music. When she was just a year and a half old she was already given piano lessons. Her first dance lesson was at the Vera Lynn School of Dance. During her dancing years, she had lessons from Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham and later, she joined Paul Taylor’s dance company. Even so, she formed her own dance company at quite a young age of 23, Twyla Tharp dance company. She has a way of choreographing as she used the crossover…

Twyla Tharp was born in 1941 and grew up in Southern California. Growing up, her extracurricular activities consisted of baton, ballet, toe, flamenco, drums, elocution, painting, viola, violin, acrobatics, shorthand, German, and French. Tharp graduated from Banard College with a degree in art history. After graduating, Tharp performed her first professional debut with Paul Taylor Company in 1963, having the role of crawling across that stage. Two years later, she founded her first company in…

but with moments…. I wanted significant movement. I did not want it to be beautiful or fluid. I wanted it to be fraught with inner meaning, with excitement and surge” (Martha Graham). Martha Graham is a famous American choreographer, dancer, and teacher of modern Graham and was an inspiration for many people, not only for a dancer. Also, Martha Graham was the first lady to brought muscle movements in dance and strong emotional story with feelings. Additionally, Graham also knows as “the mother…

huge troupe of dancers moved in 1964 to the New York State Theater, located at Lincoln Center, which was specially built for him. When he died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the dancers from his company drove more than ten ballet companies in the United States, Switzerland, and Japan. Balanchine is recognized as the choreographer who revolutionized the thinking and vision of dance in the world, responsible for fusion of modern concepts with traditional ideas of classical ballet, the real…