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...When Twyla Tharp was 8 years old, her family moved from rural Indiana to a small town near San Bernardino, Calif., and opened a drive-in movie theater. Tharp's mother, an accomplished pianist, had put her precocious daughter through the usual cultural paces--lessons in ballet and tap as well as several musical instruments--but the family movie palace is where Tharp got her first real feel for an audience. She'd work at the snack bar and sit in a junked car way up front to watch the movies--westerns, musicals, horror-film fright fests on Friday...
...main studio. They’re wearing sneakers, and one of them is going the wrong direction. A good-natured Keith Roberts, longtime dancer with American Ballet Theater, is coaching them through the still unfamiliar choreography of “In the Upper Room.” One of Twyla Tharp’s most grueling and intricate works to date, the piece is slated to be performed during Boston Ballet’s upcoming season. This scene took place on March 19 during the latest installment of Boston Ballet Dance Talks, a collaboration between the Office for the Arts...
...Dakin left Ann Arbor for the Graham Company in New York City, and the years that followed are the stuff of dance legend. Dakin took on Graham’s old roles, had roles created for her, and worked with such distinguished contemporaries as Rudolf Nureyev, Twyla Tharp, and Martha Clarke. After a period as artistic director of the Graham Company, Dakin’s old friend Bergmann lured her to Harvard’s gates. In her first year on board, Dakin offered the Graham course, which fused lecture with studio time. Joshua Legg, who currently teaches with...
With the Bolshoi now firmly recommitted to invention, Ratmansky was able to lure two of the biggest names in Western ballet - the American director and choreographer Twyla Tharp, and the energetic young British choreographer Christopher Wheeldon to each produce a one-act ballet at the Bolshoi this season. (Wheeldon's, a brand-new work called Misericors, debuted on Feb. 13.) "I don't want the Bolshoi to be the work of just one choreographer," Ratmansky says. Unlike years past, when a dancer's name - like Baryshnikov or Maximova - would be a key advertising point, at the new Bolshoi...
...opera he wrote for TV. He continued his efforts to democratize the art in 1958 by founding Italy's influential Spoleto Festival (and later its sister festival in Charleston, S.C.), which helped launch the careers of such artists as singer Shirley Verrett and dancers turned choreographers Paul Taylor and Twyla Tharp...