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Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Particularly
Dance
Everybody
Easy
Never
Life

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