Twyla Tharp Dance comes to Macky Auditorium on September 27, 2015, and will feature a recording of a Back piece by Professor of Piano David Korevaar.
This weekend's kick-off of the will including a piece recorded by College of Music Professor of Piano David Korevaar.
The 50th Anniversary Tour brings the legendary American choreographer back to Boulder for the first time since 1979. Sunday night's performance at Macky Auditorium will feature all-new works set to music by Johann Sebastian Bach, John Zorn, and Henry Butler and Steven Bernstein.
Of particular note, the company鈥檚 鈥淧reludes and Fugues鈥� is set to Bach鈥檚 鈥淲ell-Tempered Clavier鈥� as performed by David Korevaar, CU-Boulder Professor of Piano, and Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt. 听
Wrote Tharp recently in : 鈥淚n 2001, my company had been the last to perform at the World Trade Center鈥檚 outdoor plaza. We danced on Saturday night, Sunday was dark and Monday night鈥檚 show was rained out. The attack was Tuesday morning. At the time we were rehearsing 鈥楳ovin鈥� Out,鈥� a Broadway show with a score to songs by Billy Joel, in Midtown. [鈥 How, I asked myself, was I to justify working on a Broadway show when all around there was only evidence of human destruction? How to justify dancing? Huge headlines were everywhere: WTC I/II down. Suddenly I flashed on another WTC I/II. 鈥楾he Well-Tempered Clavier Volumes I/II鈥� is the title of Bach鈥檚 two-volume set of 48 paired preludes and fugues. I had Prelude in C Major of Volume 1 on my laptop and I began to dance.
鈥淭he word I use for Bach is ecumenical. 鈥楾he Well-Tempered Clavier鈥� is encyclopedic, it has so many different possibilities of color and form and emotion, a compendium of keys and rhythm, improvisation and intense structural complexity, the simplest of beautiful tunes [...]. His music is a huge umbrella, large enough to accommodate all movement鈥攕tyles and intentions鈥攁nd it was this possibility of inclusion and tolerance that allowed me to dance again.鈥�
Twyla Tharp Dance begins at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015, at Macy Auditorium. For ticket information, visit .
