Word: tharpe
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...Dakin left Ann Arbor for the Graham Company in New York City, and the years that followed are the stuff of dance legend. Dakin took on Graham’s old roles, had roles created for her, and worked with such distinguished contemporaries as Rudolf Nureyev, Twyla Tharp, and Martha Clarke. After a period as artistic director of the Graham Company, Dakin’s old friend Bergmann lured her to Harvard’s gates. In her first year on board, Dakin offered the Graham course, which fused lecture with studio time. Joshua Legg, who currently teaches with...
With the Bolshoi now firmly recommitted to invention, Ratmansky was able to lure two of the biggest names in Western ballet - the American director and choreographer Twyla Tharp, and the energetic young British choreographer Christopher Wheeldon to each produce a one-act ballet at the Bolshoi this season. (Wheeldon's, a brand-new work called Misericors, debuted on Feb. 13.) "I don't want the Bolshoi to be the work of just one choreographer," Ratmansky says. Unlike years past, when a dancer's name - like Baryshnikov or Maximova - would be a key advertising point, at the new Bolshoi...
...wrote for TV. He continued his efforts to democratize the art in 1958 by founding Italy's influential Spoleto Festival (and later its sister festival in Charleston, S.C.), which helped launch the careers of such artists as singer Shirley Verrett and dancers turned choreographers Paul Taylor and Twyla Tharp...
...modern forms of dance that incorporate his legacy of precision and style. One highlight is “Sinatra Suite”—an extended duet between two first-years with great potential, Shee and Merritt A. Moore ’10—choreographed by Twyla Tharp and set to music by Frank Sinatra...
...wasn’t particularly anybody’s fault, it was just a series of unfortunate events. Things conspired against our being able to do it,” he says. Fuller estimates he put in over 30 hours of rehearsal on his Tharp part alone...