Yeppie, it’s Twyla. Twyla’s back and The Soraya‘s got her. First at the Segerstrom Center and then, this coming weekend at the Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for the Arts, February 22 and 23, Tharp is hitting the stage with fourteen best-in-class dancers in a 60th anniversary of her career as a choreographer. Here’s what our writer Susan Reiter had to say about this upcoming performance:
This is not a “greatest hits” program, nor a retrospective. The evening offers two works from different stages in her career. The first, from 1998, “Diabelli,” is one of her most profound—an exploration of Beethoven’s nearly hour-long solo piano work, “Diabelli Variations.” A second work, “Slacktide,” is staged to chamber music by one of our most celebrated and influential living composers, Philip Glass. That is a brand-new piece.
Beginning in 1965, Tharp choreographed for an all-female group she irreverently labeled “a bunch of broads doing God’s work.” From her tough-minded pieces that challenged rather than entertained, she began to expand horizons. By the late 1960s, she was placing her dancers in museum galleries and outdoor settings long before “site-specific” became a common term. READ MORE HERE!
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Twyla Tharp’s 60th Anniversary Tour | The Soraya at Cal Stage Northridge | February 23, 3 pm | free ticket giveaway