Word: tharpe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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American Festival. Through March 19. Wang Center. 931-ARTS. Twyla Tharp in the Upper Room with music by Philip Glass. Paul Taylor Company B with the music of The Andrews Sisters. Merce Cunningham Breakers with music by John Driscoll...
...works is unified by its defiance of convention. Cunningham's "Breakers" features dancers in sharp and unpredictable poses, arms, legs and torsos working in stark juxtaposition. In "Company B," Taylor evokes the swing era of the 1940s, while poking fun at characteristic swing moves with its frantically shifting pace. Tharp's "In the Upper Room" combines modern, classical, even aerobic dance elements with exhiliarating boldness and energy...
...Tharp's "In the Upper Room," also performed for the first time by the Boston Ballet, is unquestionably a masterpiece. The dancers first enter in Norma Kamali's stylish black-and-white-striped costumes with only a suggestion of color underneath faintly visible when a shirt falls open or a skirt flies...
...been stripped one by one as the dancing heightens to an unbelievable pinnacle. Mist fills the dark stage and creates a dramatic "film-noir" tone, while dancers enter, seemingly out of nowhere, to astonish the audience with their reckless and energetic moves. The dancing is definitely classical, but definitively Tharp. Her dancers hurtle then strut across the floor, playing delightfully with their own talent...
American Festival. Through March 19. Wang Center. 931-ARTS. Twyla Tharp in the Upper Room with music by Philip Glass. Paul Taylor Company B with the music of The Andrews Sisters. Merce Cunningham Breakers with music by John Driscoll...