NEW THARP WORK PREMIERES DURING NEW YORK CITY BALLET'S WINTER SEASON.(Twyla Tharp )(Brief Article) From: Dance Magazine | Date: January 1, 2000| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2000 Dance Magazine, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

NEW YORK CITY--"The New York City Ballet dancers had always been part of my standard, the living evidence of Balanchine's discipline," Twyla Tharp wrote in her autobiography, Push Comes to Shove, about her experience choreographing on the company. She collaborated with Jerome Robbins on Brahms/Handel in 1984, saying: "It has been watching Jerry work that I have best felt some of the possibilities of dance."

Tharp returns solo, fifteen years later, to choreograph a new work for NYCB to premiere on January 22. The piece is set to music from Beethoven's Seventh and Eighth ...