The new PBS documentary on dancer-choreographer Twyla Tharp is called Twyla Moves. “I eventually had to stop boxing because I got hit and broke my nose, ” she recalled in a recent interview. On a recent afternoon, Tharp began a conversation by explaining why she’d had to postpone a few hours: Since 4am that day she’d been choreographing a new work with ballet dancers in Dusseldorf, Germany. In one old clip, TV host Dick Cavett asks Tharp what she does to relax after a long period of work. Tharp didn’t want the film, directed by Steven Cantor and part of the American Masters series, to feel like a biography.

Source: The Star April 01, 2021 06:32 UTC