arts•memearts•meme
21 January 2011

She asks me why, I’m just a hairy guy

LA cast of HAIR

HAIR has roots in Hollywood. In 1968, the West Coast premiere production opened on Sunset Boulevard, just two blocks from the Pantages, about six months following the production’s Broadway opening. The Aquarius Theatre, re-named in honor of one of the show’s hit songs, would be HAIR’s home for two years. [...]

21 January 2011

Twyla Tharp’s “Aquarius” in Milos Forman’s HAIR

Preparing to interview Karole Armitage for an L.A. Times print edition tomorrow concerning her choreography for “HAIR,” I re-watched Twyla Tharp’s “Aquarius” from Milos Forman’s 1979 movie.

Armitage wasn’t too keen on Tharp’s version. She told me so when we chatted.

I like it a lot, however.

arts·meme reader [...]

6 July 2009

Twyla, Laura, and me

A personal memoir of the impact of the strong female choreographers Twyla Tharp and Laura Dean on a young dancer in the late 1970s. [...]