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...construct the kind of ice show he envisioned. Curry choreographed two numbers himself and invited eight choreographers from the dance world - Peter Martins, Twyla Tharp, Norman Maen, Kenneth MacMillan, Jean-Pierre Bonnefous, Donald Saddler, Douglas Norwick and Robert Cohan - to do the others. He would explain what a skater could technically do, and they proceeded from there, excited by the prospect of a fluidity and motion denied them on an ordinary dance floor. "John is showing that it's possible to do something on ice that's never been done before," is the enthusiastic comment of Bonnefous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Ballet Dancing on the Ice | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...bicycles in 1968, but not in the numbers and models that descend on Central Park these Sundays: flotillas of gleaming ten-speed Peugeots, Atalas, Gitanes, Raleighs and Fujis. Cut. One curious cyclist is nearly clothes-lined by a Hausman staffer to prevent his vehicle from mowing down the entire Twyla Tharp dance company as it limbers up for a Hair number. Cut. And then there are the joggers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Manhattan: Reliving the '60s | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...Life magazine at its best. Marianne Moore poses hesitantly at the Bronx Zoo, obviously more at home with the elephants behind her than the photographer in front of her. Edith Wharton is draped in elegant furs and lace. Here the magazine begins to make sense. Martha Graham and Twyla Tharp are placed opposite each other; Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, and Edna St. Vincent Millay share a page. The bond between these women is a real one of spirit and vision, not some strange stew concocted by the editors at Time-Life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Why Lucille Ball? | 8/13/1976 | See Source »

...hair-of brushing and spraying and curling." To Fashion Designer Rudi Gernreich, the wedge is simply part of the new concept in dressing. Says he: "American women are beginning to be clean again, getting rid of the clutter." Some of the converts to the uncluttered coif: Dancer and Choreographer Twyla Tharp, Actresses Carol Burnett and Mackenzie Phillips, and Sheila Weidenfeld, Betty Ford's press secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Dorothy Do | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

CHOREOGRAPHER Twyla Tharp is New York's new superstar. The Loeb caught her February 5-7 at the tail end of a series of Tharp profiles in The New York Times Magazine and The Village Voice. As a result, Tharp's style is now publicly well-defined: snatches of pop dance and everyday gesture emerging from tightly-paced choreography; cool, aloof dancers tossing off precise wiggles, shimmies and shrugs. It adds up to a complex choreographic vision...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Twyla Sparkles, Boston Ballet Fizzles | 2/10/1976 | See Source »

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