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Twyla Tharp's Scrapbook

Excerpts from the first two sections.

Premiere

  • Date

    20 June 1983

  • Broadcaster

    PBS

Production

  • Choreographer and Director

    Twyla Tharp

  • Producers

    Kit Fitzgerald,

    John Sanborn

  • Sound Collage

    Peter Gordon

  • Graphics

    Karl Hartig

Dancers

John Carrafa, Gary Chryst, Richard Colton, Theresa Dickinson, Anthony Ferro, Graciela Figueroa, Isabel Garcia-Lorca, Katie Glasner, Barbara Hoon, Margaret Jenkins, Mary Ann Kellogg, Renee Kimball, Sharon Kinney, Raymond Kurshals, Nancy Lefkowitz, Joseph Lennon, John Malashock, France Mayotte, Jeanne Nuchtern, Sheela Raj, Tom Rawe, Kenneth Rinker, Sara Rudner, Twyla Tharp, Margery Tupling, Christine Uchida, Shelley Washington, Lillo Way, Nina Wiener, William Whitener, Rose Marie Wright, Keith Young

and

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dick Cavett, John Curry, Peter Martins, Lynn Swann

  • Number of Dancers

    37

Dance Sections

1. Stride (1965)

2. Re-Moves (1966)

3. After ‘Suite’ (1969)

4. Disperse (1967)

5. The History of Up and Down (1971)

6. Medley (1969)

7. Dancing in the Streets… (1969)

8. The One Hundreds (1970)

9. The Fugue (1974)

10. The Willie Smith Series (1971)

11. Eight Jelly Rolls (1974)

12. The Bix Pieces (1974)

13. Sue’s Leg (1976)

14. Push Comes to Shove (1976)

15. John Curry: After All (1976) / Three Fanfares (1980)

16. Dance Is A Man’s Sport, Too (1980)

17. Hair, The Motion Picture (1979)

18. All About Eggs (1974)

19. Making TV Dance (1977)

20. Confessions Of A Cornermaker (1981)

21. Bad Smells (1982)

  • Runtime

    00:58:06

Description

Twyla Tharp’s Scrapbook is an hour-long television special that chronicles Tharp’s career from 1965 to 1982. The program is divided into four sections; the first two focusing on choreography for Tharp’s company. “Work For Hire” excerpts the commissioned ballets and “Television” discusses her works for the small screen.

 

Special thanks to: American Film Institute, Richard Avedon, Derek Bailey, Robert Barry, Fred Barzyk, Merrill Brockway, Milos Forman, Paul Goode, Rhoda Grauer, James Hindman, Robert Huot, Bill King, Michael Kustow, Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts, Genevieve Oswald, David Loxton, Mary Ann Tighe