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I'm gonna give him -- unh! I didnt suddenly finish The Fugue and go, Yeah, thats it! No. And that was the spine of 'Movin' Out.'. Yeah. Exactly. Jesse was becoming further distance as I'm bouncing around here. I had done, like, enough choreography for like eight pictures. [ Laughter ] -Being a dancer, which at the level I've danced at, is a full-time job. I try not to get emotional about the past because you were so much younger and the body was so much more malleable, and you just can't allow yourself to go back there and feel that. I actually got a chuckle. Expenses are very different. Youre not always going to find yourself in a position where everything is at that level. Yeah, O.K. Make a little more work about leveraging him around the corner. And nobody else was standing still on relev for a minute and a half.

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And, ah, one, two, four, one. I was playing a children's violin, small violin by the time I was 4. I can say, Well, what would Mike do here? Or, What would Jerry have done? Or even Dick Avedon. Do you have a feeling about dance criticism and dance writing? You can see it in a persons face: a modesty, and a confidence, and a comfort zone in their own skin. - I will leave you softly -In order to support this mechanism, we were doing a very large number of fundraising events, galas, photo shoots, federal subsidies, state subsidy, patronage. I have been very busy, very, very busy, for this allows me to be in the company of dancers. Bob Huot and I moved to a farm four hours north of the city in order to start a family. So, I heard in Eddie his return after the war, after the Vietnam war, and the steps, the trials he would have to go through were those of the returning warriors, veterans from the Vietnam war and the ways in which this culture basically spat on them. It's a good -- -[ Laughs ] -It's good, but it's -[ Laughing ] Wonderful! It wasn't what other people needed to do. I do my own routine here, and I dont do a heavy gym routine anymore. How does Twyla Tharp, nearly 80, keep working?

Okay. People -- We can bring people together. Times are very different. I mean, you know, plus the thing about all the backgrounds are different. Her work transcends traditional definitions of the medium, combining elements of ballet and modern dance. Like, I wanted to be your kid, like your kid, like your -- your kid. During the height of the COVID-19 lockdown, Tharp, now 79, Thatagirl. [ Up-tempo music plays ] [ Indistinct speaking ] [ Horn honks ] I grew up totally exposed to music, practicing it, hearing it, loving it, living in it. It doesnt move. But she found that she wanted to make experimental work of her own, with choreography that combined the fluidity of modern dance with the discipline of ballet. As an artist who starts in a void with nothing to compare to, you only have your gut and your experiences. She gathered together a group of women, which she has called a bunch of broads doing Gods work. They danced wherever they could, often without formal venues or any music at all. While I was still at Barnard College, I had also been studying dance. I know. This is one of the things that I would like to be able to impart to you. -One of the big challenges of this whole project and what we're working to do here is establish that people who are as separate as we are can be connected. Web-Twyla Tharp has transformed American dance as both a performer and choreographer.

And, for the greatest of artists, thats certainly true. I was taking classes at the Graham Studio. You don't have a crew. How quickly into quarantine did you start experimenting with virtual choreography? Even subliminally, you dont sit back and think, Somebody else is going to do it. I did not perceive that it would perhaps be as extreme as this. We began as all women because we didn't want to be told what to do. That would have been crazy. We figured out where abandoned buildings were that we could get into. What made your dialogue with Baryshnikov so vital and exciting to you? I dont have time for them.

We had been too embedded in the work we were doing to just let it go. People used to sneak out of Marthas classes to go take ballet. 19621964 Twyla Tharp/Husband What nationality is Twyla Tharp? I didn't want to be stopped by any of the sort of clichs about what women could do or couldn't do. And I of course expect to see perfect unison. -Well, you know, it's Jewish. How important is mentorship to you now? They were all moving on from somewhere they had been. The age point is different. Theyre good for stamina. I was being very, very destructive for myself. -And then we could continue somehow from here. Now, you begin with one little step, one little beat to the front, one little step saut and a piqu arabesque. We had to lock them up upstairs so that they wouldn't get arrested between shows.

Margery was a true lyric dancer. It was so energetic and so physically demanding. So that is why, in formulating the archive, I have constantly been working to find a mode, which I am still doing, of containerizing information, so that the legacy can be studied. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. 'The Catherine Wheel' has one of the first motion-capture figures. I took ballet class with your Igor Schwezoff. It was something I couldn't say no to. Is it different to work with men? Its apples and oranges for the most part, except, as I said, with that very rare individual, whos got all three hundred and sixty degrees. But there had to be some feminist bent to having an all-female company when you started out? You know, I felt like, 'Take it easy,' you know? We'll fight our way through it. We put a man in, the chemistry changes. When that picture was over, I had to reestablish who I was and what the company was. So you have to go back there and look at it for the lessons that you can use. We're dancers. -Say, there's someone next to you posing as a child. -Your life is nothing but dance, one is told. Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. I said, 'Yeah.' You dont have to have a Peloton. The Zoom has been a window into dancers that's very interesting and very different because they're at home. Do you feel that you're able to be intimate? Dick was best friends with Mike [Nichols]. We danced in the subways. Well, look at it this way. No. Is it more telling everybody what to do, or do you sort of give a prompt and then let people improvise? Ive been very grateful for this Zoom format, which at least has given a shape and a dialogue to me with workers in terms of, O.K. -Sure, it was difficult, very difficult, I think. Maybe I can connect a dancer with another dancer through Zoom, and we can create a single thing, and we can pull us together even though we're miles apart. Good luck. Is your knee feeling O.K.? - This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius Age of Aquarius Aquarius -I was massively over-prepared. I would have fired me long before he did. Twyla is really opening the artistic freedom. I was carrying the groceries. But I worked hard to have diversity, you might say, in the group, both culturally diverse but also physically diverse. -No, it's okay. A leading nonprofit public media producer for nearly 60 years, The WNET Group presents and distributes content that fosters lifelong learning, including multiplatform initiatives addressing poverty, jobs, economic opportunity, social justice, understanding and the environment. Thats how you raised animals. They believed in their art as being the primary focus of their existence. She is not dating anyone. You know, we've gotten to a point where we're solid. The men in his company really didn't want to hear from a female choreographer. You name it, I did it. But, ultimately, she committed herself to New York, and to dance. I grew up around people who were so committed to what they were doing. -I'd never had anyone push me like that before. In 1962 Tharp married Peter Young, a painter whom she had met at Pomona College. Six, seven. The pandemic totally closed the opportunities for dancers to work, dances to get made, dances to get presented. They've been in quarantine for centuries, for epochs, and they, too, would like to get out. And it could perform every night of every year for the rest of everybody's lives, but that was not what I wanted to do. What would you say your mode of directing is? We were carrying the costumes and turning on the lights. Sara is driven by a hopeless ambition to achieve the unattainable discipline and control of this computerized Catherine. O.K., well, partnering will be limited, but well get better, and so on and so forth. That is the best way to be mentored. A good collaboration, lets put it this way, is one in which you can trust your collaborator to do their job and leave them alone to do their job. How to relate to other people -- I didn't have lessons in that. [ Indistinct conversation ] -It's not easy, I think, for dancers who know perfectly modern dance. No! Her second husband was Bob Huot, an artist. Nothing feels as though they're in the same space. I said, 'Well, shall I start with 'Swan Lake'?' [ Laughs ] -We're all trying to keep up with her is the moral of the story. Good luck with that. 'Medley' had been seen by a curator named Henry Geldzahler, who was assembling a show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And that's what we actually started working on. And she moved the family to Southern California. I was a full-time career dancer since I was two years old. [Twila] was the name of the princess of a pig-calling fair in Indiana. And that's how you knew it was over, because the energy had run out. That means theyve got to hire me. Not possible. Support for American Masters is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, AARP, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Rosalind P. Walter Foundation, Cheryl and Philip Milstein Family, Judith and Burton Resnick, Seton J. Melvin, The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, The Ambrose Monell Foundation, Lillian Goldman Programming Endowment, Vital Projects Fund, The Philip and Janice Levin Foundation, Ellen and James S. Marcus, The Andr and Elizabeth Kertsz Foundation, Koo and Patricia Yuen, Thea Petschek Iervolino Foundation, The Marc Haas Foundation and public television viewers. - Think you've had enough Stop talking, help us get ready Think you've had enough I could tell that she would drive the dancers pretty hard physically. And from that point of view, the confidence factor was always there, because I either had the chops or I didnt. Very nice to meet you. And he was on the farm. I mean, for example, the banjo solo that I do starts out with hitching a ride down the street. A testament to Twyla's open-mindedness is that if someone like Misty Copeland is unavailable to finish choreography, she's not going to say, 'We need to typecast 'and find the exact same type of person to fulfill this. Lets talk about the book you wrote in 2009, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life. I wonder how it felt to transition from a choreographer into this idea of a creative person emeritus, where people are turning to you for general advice on how to make art. -Charlie, I'm going to ask you to do me a huge favor. And that was the beginning of my work here. You expect that level of precision, accuracy, capability, work. Can you understand me, sweetie? And I'm trying to connect them into a narrative. You're coming into time shared with them in a very different way. Which is why I was able to use the Beach Boys, because they were very good musicians. For 'In The Upper Room,' they make it possible for dancers to materialize out of thin air in front of your eyes. In the movie, youre icing a knee. It had nothing to do with being commercial or not commercial. He was just starting a company, and I just managed to get into one of his rehearsals. 'Baker's Dozen,' 12 dancers onstage and one in the oven. This weekend, three duet dances from her archives will be performed on Their a capella was quite impressive. And it takes a lot of processing to find what is a very simple, unarguable reality. The next piece, 'Stride,' was done in what would now be called an alternative space, which was a rooftop in Brooklyn.

About Stick Figure Entertainment Serious, hard, heavy-duty work. The PBS series American Masters specializes in packaging the lives of cultural luminaries into an hour or two of entertainment. -No. I mean, that's a lot of music. Look, obviously, we all know, women across the histories of artwhether in music, painting, anythinghave not existed, until curators have started pulling a few out from here or there and trying to put them up. And I had this hair that was flying around. And I particularly object to it in the world of the ballet, as though an lite sort of definition of human movement belongs in a certain kind of elevated world. The new PBS documentary "American Masters: Twyla Moves" looks at the long career of choreographer Twyla Tharp as she approaches her 80th birthday. My brothers and sister did have teenage years. Here are dancers. [ Indistinct conversations ] -Okay, it'll take time to move the cameras anyway. And then this is my notion of some Jewish something or other. A new PBS documentary, American Masters: Twyla Moves, documents the more-than-50-year and counting career of choreographer Twyla Tharp. Obviously many died much younger, but toward the end of their careers Beethoven was a new composer, Matisse was a new painter, Rembrandt was a new artist. Tharp is never half committed to any project she takes on. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. The piece Eight Jelly Rolls (1971) came from this idea of making commercial dance work. These three guys I knew very well. 'In The Upper Room' was wildly popular, and, yes, everyone wanted it to tour. ', Get back in there and do it, or you're fired.'. And nobody can own those things, all right? I enjoy seeing what words mean. We were doing work that, you know, fit into spaces that were not staged spaces. We don't have a stage, but we have a virtual platform. -You know, we have got some real issues here. 'Watch out. Youve written about all the different things youve done in many different places. And it'll just be the -- -[ Breathing heavily ] -The whole thing done again on a different -I got to have three minutes. Thank you, Maria. By 1970, I had married Bob Huot, the gentleman on the stoop at 104 Franklin Street. Youve got to keep yourself from falling in love with every dancer you ever worked with. And it was not a necessity to prove that it was O.K. - Tricky Dick on LSD - In the sunshine -We fly through water and fire, which we actually did because we didn't know any better. Their upcoming film, HOOD RIVER, follows an Oregon soccer team struggling with issues of race and leadership, was made in partnership with Executive Producer Robert Rodriguez. [ Chuckles ] -I've just pulled him through the wall. Do I feel like overall I've completed my mission? -You want to sit down? - A great big house with nothing in it He comes home, says, 'Now wait a minute' -I commissioned David Byrne to write the score. ', So, I would just try to do a dance, which was called 'Tank Dive.'. I've had so many opportunities to experience all of these projects, but in experiencing these projects, I've gotten to know my mom. Theresa was lanky and a different kind of weight in her body. Its static. I went downtown and found the street, but not the building. Marched in, sat on the floor in the front of the room, he said, 'Who are you?' You had two status quos going on, and neer the twain should cross, let alone really rub shoulders, which to me was ridiculous, because technique is technique. So, how do I say that I kind of failed here? Like, she stands up and goes into the space and does it. Tvitni na twitteru. Twyla Moves explores the life of legendary dancer, director and choreographer Twyla Tharp. . Highlights from the week in culture, every Saturday. -Work more. The camaraderie and the intensity of commitment and fraternity, if I may use that word for a bunch of women, was intense. So, now, Herman, let's talk about life for a moment here. -The idea was so new just in terms of, like, entering into this new state, you know, where everything's virtual, everything's on Zoom. Its like your mother. 'Sara and Rose here -- we've been together for 10 years. Huot and Tharp had one son, Jesse, born 1971. I mean, you know, she comes in, in black, then she comes in, in yellow.

What do you think? By the time I was 2 I was already being taken to a professional children's teacher. [ Groans ] -I had no idea I would end up working here. Tharp graduated from Barnard in 1963 with a No. There were football games going through us and horseback people, and, you know, babies are squalling and bicycles are going through the dance. Why don't we look at that and see what it actually is? such luminaries as Billy Joel, Frank Sinatra and David Byrne. It depends on how you define a career. You dont make these statements easily. They learned to drive -- none of these things that I do because I was much too busy being groomed to become something. How New York City Ballet Took On the Pandemic. That kind of commitment is rare. . That, to me, is a person who is . Dance is extremely difficult to write about, to give any sense of, or to be accurate with. Its three voices in relation to one another. Twyla Moves explores the life of legendary dancer, director and choreographer Twyla Tharp. I grew up working in a drive-in theater from the time I was 8 years old until I went to college. And then you try to do the movement like that, and it's so difficult. -Twyla Tharp has transformed American dance as both a performer and choreographer. So you go there instead of invention. But she was doing an allegory with the lyrics. - The sunshine in Let the sunshine -Worked on the script for one year. Painting has a commodity, sculpture has a commodity. I have no idea. -You know what my name is. I was carrying the video deck. -That's alright. I'm feeling a lot of pain and decided I needed to take, like, another month off. Her work often uses classical music, jazz, and contemporary pop music. Stick Figures accolades include an Oscar nomination, multiple Emmy awards, and nominations for Best Documentary and Series, Special Jury Award at Sundance, Audience Award at AFI, Best Feature Film at the LA Independent Film Festival, and official selections at Sundance Film Festival (nine films), TIFF, Berlin, Telluride, Tribeca, Venice, and more. Ken just came in. So, I said, 'Well, I can do that stuff. Get over it. In that era, many female artists were attached to male painters. After you've done the mazurka and the little bourre, Curdie is going to be coming in upstage left. I think you would agree that Ive learned to speak. His idea of a good time was breakfast at the Carlyle. My parents were farm people, and farm people in the era were workaholics. I pretty much stayed out of the way, and she ran it. It was in my early fifties, but it was double my weight. Tharp reminds you to observe the world -- and get it down on paper. I knew the difference between first-tier work and second-tier work. Clip | The time Twyla Tharp set up a performance in Central Park, Clip | The time Twyla Tharp pushed David Byrne to his limits, Clip | Twyla Tharps very valuable college decision, legendary dancer, director and choreographer Twyla, Jumping from historical footage to the present day, the film traces, -winning and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Steven Cantor (, American Masters Willie Nelson: Still is Still Moving, as she builds a high-profile work from the ground up with an international cast of.

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