In 1974, the gay liberation movement was in full swing in New York City. Four years had passed since the first gay pride parade marched 15 blocks from Greenwich Village to Central Park. The …
Dancers from "The Trocks," an all-male comic ballet company describe how performing in drag is empowering, even extending in to wearing pointe shoes, which are normally reserved for women. W…
A dancer from "The Trocks" describes what goes through his mind while dancing the part of Odette in Swan Lake. Is he trying to portray a man playing a ballerina? Or just a ballerina? At the …
I topple sideways out of a turn and slink back to where I began. "Ugh, I'm just so tense," I whine. "My neck." "Well," comes Twyla's dry virtual reply, "relax." And she waits in impatient si…
Discover Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (The Trocks), an all-male company that for 45 years has offered audiences their passion for ballet classics mixed with exuberant comedy. With e…
Excerpted from Keep It Moving: Lessons for the Rest of Your Life by Twyla Tharp Courtesy of Simon & Schuster Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called "The Creative Habit," sharing the mes…
Music fans old enough to remember 1971 can be forgiven if they remember it as the year of Carole King. That was the year, after all, when the "Tapestry" hurricane hit American culture " hit …
It wasn't the first time I had seen Twyla at work with her dancers, but it was definitely the most memorable. She was deep into the piece that would become "In the Upper Room" (1987), a vast…
Throughout her career, the dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp has blazed a singular path that has shaped and reimagined the modern American dance scene as we know it today. Tharp seemingly…