Twyla Tharp Dance

Diamond Jubilee

Featuring Third Coast Percussion

Twyla Tharp celebrates her 60th anniversary with a groundbreaking evening of stellar dancing and phenomenal musicianship—including the world premiere of a new work that marks her six decades as a choreographer. An innovative dance set to Philip Glass’s Aguas da Amazonia, the new work has music arranged in close collaboration with Tharp and performed live by Third Coast Percussion on a unique collection of custom-designed percussion instruments. In addition, her Diabelli Variations, set to Beethoven’s intensely demanding masterpiece, reveals its elegant humor and commands technical prowess—and energy—as performers change effortlessly from ballet, to jazz, to modern, with bits of social and street dance.

At times tender, teasing, transcendent, and cheeky, the pieces showcase Tharp’s uncanny and witty use of music to create work of startling originality and beauty. The dances once again ensure Tharp’s place as one of the great artists of our time.

You might enjoy this performance if you loved: 

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Pilobolus, Martha Graham Dance Company, Dancing Beethoven by Les Grands Ballets Canadiens.

Twyla Tharp appeared at Northrop with Mikhail Baryshnikov on Dec 18, 1992. This will be the seventh appearance of Twyla Tharp’s company at Northrop and the first since Mar 2003. American Ballet Theatre and Joffrey Ballet have performed her work on our stage.