Twyla Tharp Dance
Diamond Jubilee
Featuring Third Coast Percussion
A titan of American dance, Twyla Tharp celebrates 60 years crafting strikingly original, thoroughly accessible, and utterly uncategorizable works with a new collaboration with Philip Glass, the artists' first partnership in nearly 40 years. Performed live by Chicago's Grammy-winning Third Coast Percussion ensemble, the score is based on Glass' 1993-99 work Aguas da Amazonia and reflects on the crisis of climate change. Tharp also revives Diabelli, her 1998 triumph that challenges 11 dancers and a pianist to embody Beethoven's endlessly inventive Diabelli Variations.
"Tharp is America's crossover dance queen... She melds classical ballet with modern dance, avant-garde experiment with Broadway pizzazz, technical rigor with off-the-cuff attitude, uptown glamor with downtown grit." --The Guardian
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Diamond Jubilee
Featuring Third Coast Percussion
A titan of American dance, Twyla Tharp celebrates 60 years crafting strikingly original, thoroughly accessible, and utterly uncategorizable works with a new collaboration with Philip Glass, the artists' first partnership in nearly 40 years. Performed live by Chicago's Grammy-winning Third Coast Percussion ensemble, the score is based on Glass' 1993-99 work Aguas da Amazonia and reflects on the crisis of climate change. Tharp also revives Diabelli, her 1998 triumph that challenges 11 dancers and a pianist to embody Beethoven's endlessly inventive Diabelli Variations.
"Tharp is America's crossover dance queen... She melds classical ballet with modern dance, avant-garde experiment with Broadway pizzazz, technical rigor with off-the-cuff attitude, uptown glamor with downtown grit." --The Guardian
Twyla Tharp Dance
Diamond Jubilee
Featuring Third Coast Percussion
A titan of American dance, Twyla Tharp celebrates 60 years crafting strikingly original, thoroughly accessible, and utterly uncategorizable works with a new collaboration with Philip Glass, the artists' first partnership in nearly 40 years. Performed live by Chicago's Grammy-winning Third Coast Percussion ensemble, the score is based on Glass' 1993-99 work Aguas da Amazonia and reflects on the crisis of climate change. Tharp also revives Diabelli, her 1998 triumph that challenges 11 dancers and a pianist to embody Beethoven's endlessly inventive Diabelli Variations.
"Tharp is America's crossover dance queen... She melds classical ballet with modern dance, avant-garde experiment with Broadway pizzazz, technical rigor with off-the-cuff attitude, uptown glamor with downtown grit." --The Guardian
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Diamond Jubilee
Featuring Third Coast Percussion
A titan of American dance, Twyla Tharp celebrates 60 years crafting strikingly original, thoroughly accessible, and utterly uncategorizable works with a new collaboration with Philip Glass, the artists' first partnership in nearly 40 years. Performed live by Chicago's Grammy-winning Third Coast Percussion ensemble, the score is based on Glass' 1993-99 work Aguas da Amazonia and reflects on the crisis of climate change. Tharp also revives Diabelli, her 1998 triumph that challenges 11 dancers and a pianist to embody Beethoven's endlessly inventive Diabelli Variations.
"Tharp is America's crossover dance queen... She melds classical ballet with modern dance, avant-garde experiment with Broadway pizzazz, technical rigor with off-the-cuff attitude, uptown glamor with downtown grit." --The Guardian
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