{"id":15457,"date":"2025-01-24T10:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T15:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/?p=15457"},"modified":"2025-01-24T10:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T15:47:14","slug":"tharp-diamond-jubilee-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/tharp-diamond-jubilee-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Twyla Tharp Dance Celebrates 60 Years with a US Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Revolutionary choreographer Twyla Tharp<\/strong><\/a> celebrates her 60th year as a dance maker with a 13-week U.S. tour and a new, boundary-pushing program.<\/p>\n

The Diamond Jubilee<\/em> celebration began in 2024 with the premiere of two new works at The Joyce Theater in New York City in February, along with a lively revival of Ocean\u2019s Motion<\/em> (1975). The company later took this program on a Texas tour in September.<\/p>\n

The winter program on this tour features Tharp\u2019s Olivier-nominated Diabelli<\/em><\/strong>, set to Beethoven\u2019s monumental Diabelli Variations<\/em><\/strong>, with a live piano performance by Vladimir Rumyantsev<\/strong>. Diabelli<\/em> challenges performers to embody Beethoven\u2019s demanding piano work, intertwining the music with movement to create a truly unique dance experience. The tour will also showcase the highly anticipated premiere of SLACKTIDE<\/em><\/strong>, marking the first collaboration between Tharp and Philip Glass<\/strong> since their 1986 work In The Upper Room<\/em>. The reimagining of Glass’ Aguas da Amazonia<\/em><\/strong> has been arranged and recorded by Third Coast Percussion<\/strong> in collaboration with Tharp. Third Coast Percussion will perform live at select tour stops on a collection of custom-designed percussion instruments, joined by Constance Volk on flute<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Unpredictable and dynamic, Tharp\u2019s creations solidify her place as one of the great artists of our time. \u201cThe choreographer Twyla Tharp has been a classicist, a modernist, a postmodernist \u2014 often at the same time \u2014 and maybe now and then a feminist and a Romantic, too. She also has a strong streak of the clown: tough, solemn-deadpan, with crazy timing, making a joke of how impossible things can be.\u201d The New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n

2025 Performance Dates\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

January 26* Minneapolis, MN Northrop Memorial Auditorium<\/a><\/p>\n

January 29* Iowa City, IA Hancher Auditorium<\/a><\/p>\n

February 1-2* Detroit, MI\u00a0 Detroit Opera House<\/a><\/p>\n

February 7-9* Berkeley, CA Cal Performances, Zellerbach Hall<\/a><\/p>\n

February 11* Santa Barbara, CA UCSB Arts & Lectures, Granada Theatre<\/a><\/p>\n

February 13* La Jolla, CA La Jolla Music Society, Balboa Theatre<\/a><\/p>\n

February 15-16* Costa Mesa, CA Segerstrom Center for the Arts<\/a><\/p>\n

February 18 Palm Desert, CA McCallum Theatre<\/a><\/p>\n

February 22-23 Northridge, CA The Soraya<\/a><\/p>\n

February 25-26 Santa Fe, NM Lensic Performing Arts Center<\/a><\/p>\n

March 1-2 Miami, FL The Moss Center<\/a><\/p>\n

March 4 Sarasota, FL Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall<\/a><\/p>\n

March 6 Tallahassee, FL Opening Nights at FSU, Ruby Diamond Concert Hall<\/a><\/p>\n

March 8 Cleveland, OH DANCECleveland, Keybank State Theater<\/a><\/p>\n

March 12-16* New York, NY New York City Center<\/a><\/p>\n

March 26-29* Washington, DC John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts<\/a><\/p>\n

April 5* Richmond, VA Modlin Center for the Arts<\/a><\/p>\n

April 10-12* Chicago, IL Harris Theater<\/a><\/p>\n

April 15 Madison, WI Overture Center<\/a><\/p>\n

April 17 Princeton, NJ McCarter Theatre Center<\/a><\/p>\n

April 19 Pittsburgh, PA Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Byham Theater<\/a><\/p>\n

*With Third Coast Percussion and Constance Volk, Flute<\/p>\n

Ensemble<\/strong>
\nRenan Cerdeiro, Angela Falk, Zachary Gonder, Oliver Greene-Cramer, Kyle Halford, Daisy Jacobson, Miriam Gittens, Nicole Ashley Morris, Marzia Memoli, Alexander Peters, Molly Rumble, Reed Tankersley<\/p>\n

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Funding Credits<\/strong>
\nDiabelli<\/em> was commissioned by The Cit\u00e9 de la Musique (Paris); The Barbican Center (London); University of Iowa, Hancher Auditorium (Iowa City)<\/p>\n

SLACKTIDE<\/em> was commissioned by New York City Center (New York), The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, D.C.), UC Santa Barbara, Arts & Lectures (Santa Barbara).<\/p>\n

This arrangement by Third Coast Percussion of Aguas da Amazonia<\/em> by Philip Glass was commissioned with support from Modlin Center for the Arts, University of Richmond, the Zell Family Foundation, the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation, the Julian Family Foundation, and Steph and Daniel Heffner.<\/p>\n

Major support for the Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation is provided by Jay Franke and David Herro.<\/p>\n

Funding for the 60th Tour made possible by Jody and John Arnhold, Valerie and Chuck Diker, Peter and Sarah Finn, Sarah Hoover, Bill Miller, James Nederlander Jr., Patsy and Jeff Tarr, Stephen and Cathy Weinroth, and Vicente Wolf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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