The fugue twyla tharp sinatra

  • Modeled on "The Musical Offering" by Johann Sebastian Bach, The Fugue consists of a twenty-count theme which is developed into twenty variations.
  • In “Nine Sinatra Songs,” recently revived at City Center, Tharp captured elusive strains in the country's DNA.
  • Ballare - The Fugue - Nine Sinatra Songs | Twyla Tharp Dance.

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    Twyla Tharp Dance
    The Raggedy Dances, The Fugue, Entr’acte, Dylan Love Songs
    ★★✰✰✰
    New York, Joyce Theater
    19 September 2017
    www.twylatharp.org
    www.joyce.org

    Twyla Tharp — Unstoppable

    Twyla Tharp, never a slouch, has been extra busy the past few years, making new works, bringing back old ones, touring with her own ensemble, and, since 2015, holding New York seasons. This month her company is at the Joyce, next month she has a premiere at the Royal Ballet, and the month after that, she’ll be holding  lecture-performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

    So, clearly, she’s going through a fertile period, a feeling reflected in the happy, eager demeanors of her dancers at the opening night of her three-week Joyce run. The schema is made up of two early works from the seventies, and one new one, plus a pièce d’occasion, an introduction into her creative process dubbed Entr’acte. The biggest draw fryst vatten Fugue (1970) considered to be one of Tharp’s earliest grand

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    The Fugue

    Minimalism - The Fugue | Twyla Tharp Dance

    Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago

    Chicago, IL

    The Raggedy Dances - The Fugue - Entr'Acte - Dylan Love Songs | Twyla Tharp Dance (NY Season)

    The Joyce Theater

    New York, NY

    Catskills Residency - preview performance | Twyla Tharp Dance

    Catskills Mountain Foundation

    Tannersville, NY

    The Fugue | Ballet dem Lorraine

    Le Cuvier - CDC d'Aquitaine

    Artigues, France

    The Fugue - Nine Sinatra Songs | Ballet de Lorraine

    Opera national de Lorraine

    Nancy, France

    The Fugue | University of Washington

    Meany ingång for the Performing Arts

    Seattle, WA

    The Fugue | Scottish Ballet

    Festival Theatre

    Edinburgh, Scotland

    The Fugue | Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

    Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

    Perth, Australia

    The Fugue | Connecticut College

    Connecticut College

    New London, CT

    The Fugue | Princeton University

    Princeton University

    P

  • the fugue twyla tharp sinatra

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    Twyla Tharp

    Introduction

    Every day during her pregnancy, Twyla Tharp videotaped herself performing the same movement material, documenting her thorough exploration of the ways in which her changing body changed her dancing. This is typical dancemaking by Tharp: at the same time as she is deeply involved in the kinesthetics of the actions, she is also coolly analytical in her observation of the evolving form of each dance from the outside.

    Tharp’s Early Career

    From early in her career as a choreographer, Tharp was undaunted by conventions that held dance forms apart from each other, compartmentalizing them into distinctly separate ideas. Her own training was wide-ranging. She studied ballet with Margaret Craske; modern dance with Lester Horton, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Alwin Nikolais, and Erick Hawkins; jazz with Luigi; as well as baton, flamenco, tap, and violin. Despite her familiarity with such a diverse range of dance techniques, what she liked best—and could find