Word: twyla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Twyla Tharp's new ballet highlights a strong season...
...Cable. An arts showcase that, in its 14 months on the air, presented some of the medium's finest theater (Sizwe Banzi Is Dead), dance (Twyla Tharp's Confessions of a Cornermaker), film (The Tree of Wooden Clogs), music (a series on Broadway composers) and conversation (Gregory Jackson's Signature). After losing an estimated $30 million, it expired on Dec. 16-one of 1982's saddest death notices...
...most ambitious and prestigious of the cultural cable services in the U.S., competing for a small if generally affluent audience of arts aficionados. CBS offered TV dramas featuring Sir Ralph Richardson and Peter O'Toole; a Swan Lake starring Ballerina Natalia Makarova; modern dance choreographed by Twyla Tharp; and Leonard Bernstein conducting Beethoven symphonies. Defining culture broadly, CBS also ran a probing nightly interview series, Signature, and a multi-episode look at modern history narrated by CBS Evening News Commentator Bill Moyers. More than 60% of the shows were produced by CBS, at costs ranging from...
There are other figures with whom she shows a sort of didactic impatience. Her pan of Twyla Tharp's Broadway effort, When We Were Very Young, is clearly done regretfully, but the conclusion is inevitable: the show, she says, "isn't a musical, it isn't a dansical. Like so many shows that are being produced today, it's a booksical...
...premise of such heady deliberations is that graffiti is art-a premise supported over the past decade by several people with brains. In 1973 Twyla Tharp introduced the ballet Deuce Coupe, which used the doubly delightful background of music by the Beach Boys and six graffitists shooting spray cans at panels...