Word: tharpe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DANCE Twyla Tharp and Mikhail Baryshnikov, together again...
CHOREOGRAPHER: TWYLA THARP...
...BOTTOM LINE: Tharp and Mikhail Baryshnikov offer star power, high-flying moments and a little too much kitsch...
THIS HAS BEEN A BUMPER YEAR for Twyla Tharp. In January she staged a triumphant show of her quirky, inventive choreography at Manhattan's City Center. Next came a stint in Hollywood doing the dances for I'll Do Anything (to be released in 1993), and then the publication of her intelligent, candid-to-a-fault autobiography, Push Comes to Shove (Bantam; $24.50). That's enough for most busy artists, but energy is Tharp's signature both in choreography and in life. She has now renewed her partnership with Mikhail Baryshnikov for a 24-city national tour that started...
During the 1970s, when the pair discovered each other, it seemed like a bizarre match: Baryshnikov, the supreme classical-ballet stylist, and Tharp, whose roots were in '60s rock and pop. But together they stretched the boundaries of dance. Tharp was one of many choreographers who were trying to harness their talents to the Russian's genius, and mostly these efforts flopped. But her Push Comes to Shove (1976) showed a different, up-to-the- minute Baryshnikov -- impish, racy and reckless -- and a new idiom for classical ballet...