Hints and tips:
...A week before I’m scheduled to meet David Byrne, I meet David Byrne. I’m on the floor of his Broadway musical....
...On the first day of rehearsal with Whelan and acclaimed cellist Maya Beiser, Childs arrived with the whole David Lang score counted out....
...Her slit black backcloth (a variant on Santo Loquasto’s design for Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room) allows dancers to materialise with eerie ease....
...It then moves to Plymouth with Moving Stateside, a triple bill of American choreographies including Serenade and Twyla Tharp’s hard-driven In the Upper Room....
...Dorfman is no Twyla Tharp: his idea of loose and casual looks like nothing at all. When he aims for form, he produces ice dancing or Broadway chorus lines....
...that is Donald Knaack’s Junk Music accompanies Twyla Tharp’s 1980s-modish and ferociously dated Known by Heart duet, which does nothing for Gillian Murphy and Blaine Hoven other than make them look cheaply...
...David Byrne is no stranger to eccentric projects....
...Tharp’s choreography, a unique mixture of ballet and, well, Tharp, perhaps suits classically trained dancers more than Taylor’s hard-to-absorb style....
...What, one wonders, might Tharp do with a full orchestra at his disposal?...
...Twyla Tharp’s innovative style combines classical ballet, modern and uniquely Tharpian steps, and was so effective in Push Comes to Shove, her first work for American Ballet Theatre in 1976....
...… Lars Tharp, an expert on ceramics for the BBC’s ‘Antiques Road Show’, is the newly appointed director of the Foundling Museum, London I don’t collect, which might seem strange to some people....
...Tharp’s splashy, energetic piece to David Byrne’s music and occasional throaty singing has the type of high-energy choreography that allows the Ailey dancers to fizz and bubble like uncorked champagne: an...
...David Halberg, ordinarily the epitome of a danseur noble, has perfected his portrayal of Death as a terrifying automaton....
...Four of the company’s strong male contingent made the most of David Berkey’s Sentinel, to Brahms, dancing sometimes in canon, partnering each other in swing-around lifts....
...David Halberg, ordinarily the epitome of a danseur noble has perfected his portrayal of Death as a terrifying automaton....
...In Hackney, Elkins says specific moves or moments may “sub-reference” everything from Chaplin and Twyla Tharp to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Kung Fu Hustle and the enchanting anime film Spirited Away...
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