1. By: Ian Sandridge-Suarez

2. Biography Twyla Tharp was in Portland, Indiana on July 1, 1941
In 1951, she began taking dance lessons at the Vera Lynn School of Dance

3. Biography (cont.)
In 1963, graduated from Barnard College and debuted as a professional dancer with the Paul Taylor Dance Company
By the age of 23 she started her own dance company, the Twyla Tharp Dance Company

4. Style and Fun Facts
Ms. Tharp has choreographed more than one hundred sixty works: one hundred twenty-nine dances, twelve television specials, six Hollywood movies, four full- length ballets, four Broadway shows and two figure skating routines
Her style combines different forms of movement- jazz, ballet, boxing, and inventions of her own

5. Notable Works The movie Hair Movin’ Out Sinigin’ In the Rain
Ragtime Movie
When We Were Very Young
Come Fly Away

6. Works Cited http://www.twylatharp.org/bio