Twyla Tharp Dance

The art and joy of movement

by Stephanie Rieke

posted 3/1/2002

Modern dance is a tricky term, often used as a catchphrase for nearly every nonclassical (read: nonballetic) theatrical dance style in Europe and America since the early twentieth century. Twyla Tharp challenges even that fragile distinction. The groundbreaking choreographer ignores the codified barriers between modern dance and ballet idioms to forge her own distinctive vocabulary

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