During the summer of 1960, dance artists Simone Forti, Nancy Meehan, and Yvonne Rainer rented rehearsal space at Dance Players on Sixth Avenue so they could improvise together. Sitting in on a ...
NEW YORK — The choreographer Twyla Tharp has been a classicist, a modernist, a postmodernist — often at the same time — and maybe now and then a feminist and a Romantic, too. She also has a strong ...
Twyla Tharp views her career as a linear one, starting at the beginning and following a path up to now. That path includes more than 160 credits in dance, film, writing and Broadway — more, perhaps, ...
This post was updated Feb. 23 at 8:03 p.m. Minimalism champions restraint yet kneels to the austere. Minimalism, often heralded as the pinnacle of aesthetic sophistication, has long dictated trends in ...