Raised at the school of the American Ballet Theatre and then in the studios of Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham, and training for a short time with Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp founded her own ...

As hard as it is to overstate the scope of Twyla Tharp’s choreographic career — she started making dances as a postmodern rebel in the 1960s and “crossed over” into ballet virtuosity in the 1970s — it ...

She melds classical ballet with modern dance ... The Guardian A titan of American dance, Twyla Tharp celebrates 60 years crafting strikingly original, thoroughly accessible, and utterly ...

Despite two decades of dance training, most of my context for Twyla Tharp’s Diamond Jubilee at Hancher last Wednesday night was via an undergraduate dance history class on the choreographer and her ...

Cal Performances' "Twyla Tharp Dance Diamond Jubilee" includes ... piece "Deuce Coupe" set to music by the Beach Boys mixed ballet and modern dance, has choreographed more than 160 works.

Show also included world premiere of “SlackTide,” featuring custom instruments performed by Third Coast Percussion.

Twyla Tharp Dance celebrates its 60th anniversary ... The range of dance styles includes ballet, jazz, modern, social and street. “It’s all across the spectrum,” Jacobson said.

On Friday, January 31st the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center presented 'Mikhail Baryshnikov: ...

Choreographers of the 20th and 21st Centuries will include George Balanchine's Ballet Imperial, Alexei Ratmansky's Neo, and Twyla Tharp's In the Upper Room. Signature Works will be offered at ...

Scenic designs left the most lasting impressions of a mixed bill at New York City Ballet featuring a world premiere by Justin ...