New York, NY

Twyla Tharp Dance tickets

Name: Twyla Tharp Dance
Start: 2025-03-12
End: 2025-03-16
Location: New York City Center

Enjoy a vibrant fusion of ballet, jazz, and modern dance in a unique performance

A dancer in dark clothing performs on a dimly lit stage, striking a pose with arms behind head. Two other dancers are visible in the background.

Dancers perform on stage with a yellow background; one dancer is separate from a group on the right.

Three dancers perform on stage; one lifts a leg high, supported by another, while the third moves in the background. The backdrop is plain, and they are dressed in black.

About Twyla Tharp Dance

In this dazzling celebration of her company’s 60th Anniversary, Twyla Tharp presents a Diamond Jubilee of two career-spanning New York premieres that offer audiences a breathtaking vista of her range as an artist.

The first and only choreographer to take on Beethoven’s intensely demanding and demonically complex Diabelli Variations, Tharp makes visible the elegant humor and depth of the composer’s layered genius in her piece Diabelli. With each section of the Beethoven, unique in mood and texture, Tharp’s response—tender, teasing, transcendent, cheeky—commands all of the performers’ technical prowess and energy. The dancers change effortlessly from ballet to jazz to modern, with unexpected bits of social dance.

Almost two centuries later in years and spirit is the choreographer’s setting of Philip Glass’s Aguas da Amazonia. Glass’s iconic music comes alive in this bold new arrangement by members of the Grammy-winning Third Coast Percussion. Tharp’s dancers capture all the rhythmic, propulsive energy of this Glass suite, invigorated by a collection of custom-designed instruments.

Key art photo by Mark Seliger, performance photos by STUDIO AURA