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Article: Twyla Tharp's troupe bolsters its ballet bent
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 24, 1986
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Some dance fans consider Twyla Tharp a ballet choreographer. She
did, after all, create "Push Comes to Shove" and "Nine Sinatra
Songs," works associated with Mikhail Baryshnikov.
And Tharp's first hit with a national, general audience was
"Deuce Coupe," created in the mid-1970s for the Joffrey Ballet. She
mixed Joffrey's dancers with members of her own company and sent them
slithering and bopping across the stage to tunes by the Beach Boys.
But Tharp cannot be pigeonholed. The past 20 years, she has
done most of her work with her own company, Twyla Tharp Dance. She
started out as an iconoclast and her style steadily evolved into
something quite new and brilliant. Tharp's signature is ...