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Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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