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Twyla Tharp Keeps Pushing Boundaries of Dance

In April of 1965, Twyla Tharp, with two colleagues, danced her first work, using Petula Clark’s popular song Downtown. Tank Dive lasted all of about 4½ minutes... “because I figured that’s all I knew about a beginning a middle and an end. And I could get it into that period of time. So if you were late you kind of missed whole thing,” Tharp recalled with a laugh. Fourteen people showed. But the choreographer and dancer says that was ok, because she knew then she could do...


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