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Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Else
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Dancers
Guts
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Modern

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