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...He realised in creating the show that he’d written a story that was flipped. Normally in theatre, the audience watches a character change. In this show, they change....
...Back in 1982 the foxtrot and the waltz were tired old mum-and-dad dances but Twyla Tharp’s mix of balletic rigour and ballroom nonchalance made them quirky and poignant....
...Whelan says of Childs: “I’d always been curious about her. I’d always thought she was the most beautiful, classy, intellectual artist, whom I didn’t understand at all.”...
...He summoned to it renowned choreographers (Twyla Tharp, Eliot Feld)....
...At least 70 per cent or more of my work had to be so satisfying that I’d follow the same routine even without payment....
...Just as much as the D minor partita is an essay on the violin – the human yearning and struggle inherent in the bow stroke – Bach Partita enlarges on the basics of academic dance, much more so, in fact,...
...and I said, ‘Well, Frank, if you’ll sing, I’ll dance.’ ” Twyla Tharp’s choreography of “One For My Baby” was the gala’s closing number: Baryshnikov on the stage, Sinatra seated on its edge....
...“I’d pop in for a few minutes but I wouldn’t dream of interfering,” she says. “At that stage of commissioning, there’s a tremendous amount of trust.”...
...I though it would be exciting but I wouldn’t learn anything, I’d just be an audience.” In the west Imelda Marcos is often treated as a camp, comic character....
...If I were rich I’d love to own one of those austere interior scenes by my countryman Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916)....
...Many years ago Dance Theater Workshop was a modest mecca for nascent talent, unknowns and semi- unknowns such as Mark Morris and Twyla Tharp....
...Twyla Tharp’s flimsy Nine Sinatra Songs uses saccharine ballads, all of which go on far too long, for choreography that gives social dance ideas above its station....
...Kimberly Cowen and Juan Pablo Trujillo brought classical style to Jacques d’Amboise’s Balanchine- influenced, smoothly choreographed pas de deux, Meditation (Massenet)....
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