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Article: Tharp all over: the choreographer's cadre of stagers are fanning out across the country.(Twyla Tharp)(Interview)
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- Dance Magazine
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- January 1, 2007
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The United States map hanging in Ginger Montel's office has color-coded pushpins scattered across the country. Each one indicates where a dance company has a Twyla Tharp piece in its active repertoire, with the different colors representing the number of works. Lately she has been adding them to the map at a rapid pace.
Tharp's brilliant, challenging works are introducing new audiences to her bracing originality, and distinctive blend of complexity and kinetic appeal. This month, Miami City Ballet performs In the Upper Room (1986), its fourth Tharp work in the past three years. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater recently took on its first Tharp work, The ...