Chicago research : research materials related to the life in Chicago used by Twyla Tharp for an unfinished dance project, 1987.

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Chicago research : research materials related to the life in Chicago used by Twyla Tharp for an unfinished dance project, 1987.

Folders contain xeroxed research materials regarding social and political life in Chicago at the beginning of the century and during the Depression. Included also are research materials about jazz, several versions of scripts, some of them annotated by Twyla Tharp. The Chicago research folders might be related to the Boogie-woogie dance project.

2 boxes (5 folders)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7342707

Ohio State University Libraries

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Tharp, Twyla

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Twyla Tharp is American modern dancer and choreographer. She was born 1 July 1941 in Portland, Indiana and grew up in Rialto, California. She attended Pomona College and received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College in 1963. As a child she studied ballet, tap, flamenco, baron twirling, acrobatics, and several musical instruments. While in California, she studied dance with Beatrice Collenette, Wilson Morelli, John Butler, Carmen de Lavallade, and at the Lester Horton stu...