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...more modern forms of dance that incorporate his legacy of precision and style. One highlight is “Sinatra Suite”—an extended duet between two first-years with great potential, Shee and Merritt A. Moore ’10—choreographed by Twyla Tharp and set to music by Frank Sinatra...
...being co-presented by the HBC and the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC), opens this Friday. But preparations started as far back as May, when Kenney and Keller began the long process of procuring the performance rights for an ambitious list of pieces that included works by acclaimed choreographers Twyla Tharp, Martha Graham, and Bob Fosse...
...trend is even more striking this fall. Choreographer Twyla Tharp, who had a surprise hit four years ago with Movin' Out, her dance interpretation of Billy Joel music, is attempting a similar feat with The Times They Are A-Changin', based on the songs of Bob Dylan. A more problematic show with a murky story line, it is set in a grungy-chic circus that is more distracting than illuminating. But there's no mistaking that it's a musical with a personal vision--not to mention one of the best sound tracks on Broadway...
...quite a pool of Harvard academics to choose from. “I can think of about 20 people who deserve it just from this neighborhood,” said Gawande. The MacArthur Fellowship program has gained much prestige since its inception in 1981. Past winners include Harold Bloom, Twyla Tharp, World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, and former Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould. Because the winners are chosen from nominations, not applications, the professors were taken by complete surprise. “I couldn’t believe it, I thought it was a prank caller...
...Lionel Richie, among others, into a ballet film set in the U.S.S.R. He has also had the inspiration, radical by the standards of recent musicals, to keep his dancers' feet in the film frame, and to hold a shot long enough to anchor the loping rhythms of Choreographer Twyla Tharp. Hines taps and boogies--and acts--his way out of some preposterous plot contrivances, and Isabella Rossellini and Helen Mirren bring urgent dignity to their satellite roles...