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Twyla Tharp
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Facts

Born July 1, 1941 (age 83) • Indiana
Founder Twyla Tharp Dance
Awards And Honors Kennedy Center Honors (2008)

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Twyla Tharp
Catherine Wheel
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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
Pillar of Fire
Antony Tudor
American dancer
Mark Morris
American dancer and choreographer
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins
American choreographer
Merce Cunningham
Merce Cunningham
American dancer and choreographer
Mikhail Baryshnikov performing with the Bolshoi Ballet
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Russian-American 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
Alexei Ratmansky
Russian dancer and choreographer
Jooss in The Green Table, c. 1935
Kurt Jooss
German dancer and choreographer
Ross, Herbert
Herbert Ross
American dancer and film director
Medusa
Michel Fokine
Russian dancer and choreographer
Isadora Duncan dancing in an amphitheatre in Athens, photograph by Raymond Duncan, 1903.
Isadora Duncan
American dancer
Doris Humphrey
Doris Humphrey
American dancer
Kyle Abraham
Kyle Abraham
American dancer and choreographer