Word: twyla
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Glass has always been an enthusiastic collaborator, working with Theater Artist Robert Wilson in Einstein on the Beach, fellow Composer Robert Moran in The Juniper Tree and Choreographer Twyla Tharp in In the Upper Room. But 1000 Airplanes may be his most daring ensemble effort yet, involving Chinese- American Playwright David Henry Hwang and Scenic Designer Jerome Sirlin. The trio has produced a science-fiction music drama that is part Freud, part Kafka and part Steven Spielberg...
...pointe work. Although she has choreographed some ballet, Laura Dean is a modernist -- or post-modernist. Martins' decision is controversial; N.Y.C.B. dancers can dance decently barefoot, but why not display them in what they do best? There are some much noted omissions from the roster, including such innovators as Twyla Tharp and Mark Morris, who have put the vocabulary of classical dance to new uses, not always successfully but with purpose and bite. The festival also misses the participation of Martins' co-director Jerome Robbins, a master American choreographer. Robbins bowed out because he is hard at work...
...dancer who did not appeal to "something warm" inside him. But there are frosty spots: Bettie de Jong ("picture a lovely reed dancing") is closest to him, but at times his feelings for her "are like a furry noose which slowly tightens around my neck." He admires the young Twyla Tharp's "magnificent" ambition, but simmers when she disparages his work to London critics. With what must be unprecedented honesty he says he gave Dan Wagoner little solos in Aureole to keep him interested without handing him a fat part. Wagoner, Tharp, Senta Driver and Laura Dean all left Taylor...
...single from the extravaganza is likely to be disappointed. The songs are more symphonic than pop, Glass explains. "There's really no rock in them." The program, which was performed in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, included a piece written for Dancer-Choreographer Twyla Tharp, and an orchestration of Edgar Allan Poe's A Descent into the Maelstrom. "It's almost like a vaudeville show," muses Glass. "People moving and blending. That's the thing about the '80s -- it's all about collaboration...
...rock all flowed together into a single swift stream, which Byrne navigated effortlessly (see following story). He also wrote scores for the spectacular theatrical ruminations of Robert Wilson (The Knee Plays, segments of Wilson's grand-scale project, the CIVIL warS) and the spirited, quirky choreography of Twyla Tharp. "He is very precise and very careful," Tharp says admiringly. "He doesn't waste things, but he is also capable of being very adventuresome and working with great imagination in a studio." Indeed, Byrne's 73-minute score for Tharp's The Catherine Wheel was a dazzling bit of aw-shucks...