Loading Events
Grades:
Middle School
High School
Event Category:
Arts
Event Tags:
Theater Experience

Twyla Tharp Dance – Diamond Jubilee Featuring Third Coast Percussion

Date:
January 26, 2025
Time:
3:00 pm

Venue

Northrop Auditorium
84 Church St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
+ Google Map

Organizer

The Northrop
Twyla Tharp celebrates her 60th anniversary with a groundbreaking evening of stellar dancing and phenomenal musicianship—including the world premiere of a new work that marks her six decades as a choreographer. An innovative dance set to Philip Glass’s Aguas da Amazonia, the new work has music arranged in close collaboration with Tharp and performed live by Third Coast Percussion on a unique collection of custom-designed percussion instruments. In addition, her Diabelli Variations, set to Beethoven’s intensely demanding masterpiece, reveals its elegant humor and commands technical prowess—and energy—as performers change effortlessly from ballet, to jazz, to modern, with bits of social and street dance.

At times tender, teasing, transcendent, and cheeky, the pieces showcase Tharp’s uncanny and witty use of music to create work of startling originality and beauty. The dances once again ensure Tharp’s place as one of the great artists of our time.

Performance Venue

Northrop Auditorium

All Performance Dates

Sunday, 1/26 at 3pm 

Content Warnings/Age Recommendations

This performance is recommended for ages 11 and older.

Themes

  • In the video below, Tharp encourages us to embrace failure as part of the process. Is there a time in your life when you found something positive in an “unsuccessful” experience?

Accessibility

Many performance venues offer accessibility accommodations such as wheelchair seating, assistive listening, sensory ear plugs, ASL interpretation, open captioning, or audio description, among other options. These accommodations are specific to each event, and may not be available everywhere. When registering with us, please let us know what accommodations you need and we will follow up with you!

Transportation

If you do not have access to a ride, call Project Success and we can provide transportation for you. Please let us know if you need a ride when you make your reservation. We will need at least 2 days’ notice to set up transportation.

Childcare

Childcare is available for this performance. Please let us know if you need childcare when you make your reservation.

Additional Media

Here is Twyla Tharp describing her approach to art and life as she gets older (contains some mature language):

Get involved with Project Success