| Description |
326 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : photographs, portrait ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Leotard days 1965-1966 -- Dance activities 1967-1969 -- The end of Amazonia 1969-1971 -- The entertainer 1971-1973 -- Local to express 1973-1975 -- The big leagues 1975-1978 -- Hodge podge rummage 1976-1979 -- Family business 1979-1981 -- Romance and the opposite 1982-1983 -- Three-way stretch 1983-1990 -- The anti-company 1990-1995 -- Near heaven 1995-2005 -- An audience of one |
| Summary |
"Twyla Tharp has been a phenomenon in American dance, a choreographer who not only broke the rules but refused to repeat her own successes." "Starting in the rebellious 1960s, Tharp tried her creative wings on minimalism, pedestrianism, and Dada, then abandoned both the avant-garde and the established modern dance. She thrilled a new audience with her witty version of jazz in 'Eight Jelly Rolls', then merged her dancers with the Joffrey Ballet for the sensational 'Deuce Coupe', to the music of the Beach Boys. She explored the classical world in 'Push Comes to Shove', for the American Ballet Theater and the celebrated Russian virtuoso Mikhail Baryshnikov. For her touring company in the 1970s and 1980s, an unprecedented fusion of modern dancers and ballet dancers, she created a superb repertory that included the theatrical full-length work 'The Catherine Wheel', the ballroom duets 'Nine Sinatra Songs', and the company showcase 'Baker's Dozen'. Tharp has made movies, television specials, and nearly one hundred riveting dance works. Movin' Out, the dance show that reflected on the Vietnam era using the music of Billy Joel, ran on Broadway for three years and won Tharp a Tony award for Best Choreography." "Howling Near Heaven is the first in-depth study of Twyla Tharp's unique, restless creativity, the story of a choreographer who refused to be pigeonholed and the dancers who accompanied her as she sped across the frontiers of dance." - publisher website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Tharp, Twyla.
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Choreographers -- United States -- Biography.
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Modern dance -- United States -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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History.
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Biographie
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Biographies.
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| Author |
Tharp, Twyla.
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| LC no. |
2005044685 |
| ISBN |
0312232942 |
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9780312232948 |
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