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...world. She shocked traditionalists with Deuce Coupe, her 1973 dance piece that wedded classical-ballet moves to Beach Boys songs. She worked with Mikhail Baryshnikov and David Byrne (and had romantic flings with both), shuttled between the American Ballet Theatre and Hollywood and then, in 2002, rocked Broadway with Movin' Out, her dance musical set to Billy Joel's greatest hits. Ballet choreographers like Jerome Robbins had done musicals before, but Tharp broke new ground, building a hit show almost entirely out of dance--and redefining what a Broadway musical could be.(See eight great Broadway shows...
...stretching her own conception of what art is. She has worked on Hollywood films (Hair and Ragtime, among others) and directed the 1985 Broadway revival of Singin' in the Rain, which got a critical drubbing that humiliated her. ("A catastrophe," she called it later.) Even after the success of Movin' Out, she had another misfire with The Times They Are A-Changin', in which she used a circus motif to illustrate the music of Bob Dylan--a conceit that no one much liked...
Inside, the food in the JCR reminded FlyBy of info session food a bit too much (yeah, not a pleasant flashback). And the bump-n-grind area? Solid. Relatively unpopulated for most of the time, DJ Straus kept everyone's body movin' with some sweet mixes for most of the night. But as the general gripe with DJ Straus goes: the attendants craved classics to sing along to as the night came to a close...and DJ Straus refused to deliver. No big loss though...
...soul and pop classics that changed America. There's no hyperbole in that statement. Arriving at the height of the civil rights movement, Motown was a black-owned, black-centered business that gave white America something they just could not get enough of - joyous, sad, romantic, mad, groovin', movin' music. (See an audio slideshow of five of Motown's best tunes...
...trend is even more striking this fall. Choreographer Twyla Tharp, who had a surprise hit four years ago with Movin' Out, her dance interpretation of Billy Joel music, is attempting a similar feat with The Times They Are A-Changin', based on the songs of Bob Dylan. A more problematic show with a murky story line, it is set in a grungy-chic circus that is more distracting than illuminating. But there's no mistaking that it's a musical with a personal vision--not to mention one of the best sound tracks on Broadway...