What makes someone creative? How does someone face the empty page, the empty stage and making something where nothing existed before? Not just a dilemma for the artist, it is something everyone faces everyday. What will I cook that isn't boring? How can I make that memo persuasive? What sales pitch will increase the order, get me the job, lock in ...
Issued to coincide with the Twyla Tharp-Mikhail Baryshnikov national tour, premier choreographer Twyla Tharp reveals her extraordinary odyssey that changed contemporary dance. She recounts her unique story, from her childhood to her training in classical ballet to her struggle to find her own vision. Photographs.
Tharp writes about her regimented childhood under the tutelage of an ambitious mother, development as a dancer and choreographer, love affairs and marriages, introduction to Hollywood, and ongoing struggle to win respect as a woman with her own company in the male-dominated dance world. Photos.
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