dirac Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 Brian Seibert writes on the career of Twyla Tharp in The New York Review of Books. Quote Tharp became one of the most popular choreographers of the 1970s, keeping up her own modern company while working for America’s top ballet troupes and creating dances for ballet’s new superstar, Mikhail Baryshnikov, after he defected from the Soviet Union in 1974. She essentially invented what became known as “crossover ballet,” integrating the previously polarized worlds of ballet and modern dance, often using pop music. She choreographed for television and the movies, too (Hair, Ragtime). As with much early fame, hers was a boon and a burden, and has been for more than half a century. Link to comment
dirac Posted August 27 Author Share Posted August 27 The Morgan Library & Museum presents an exhibition on the Ballets Russes. Quote McClellan, an associate curator at the Morgan, realized that these scores, which had never been publicly shown together, offered an uncommon perspective on the Ballets Russes productions that defined and transformed a generation of artists. The scores, by Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel and others, many heavily annotated, “give a visceral sense of the working process,” McClellan said. Link to comment
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