| TITLE: | DIABELLI |
|---|---|
| Year and length: | 1998 – 58’ |
| Choreography: | Twyla Tharp |
| Ensemble: | Renan Cerdeiro, Angela Falk, Zachary Gonder, Oliver Greene-Cramer, Kyle Halford, Daisy Jacobson, Miriam Gittens, Nicole Ashley Morris, Marzia Memoli, Alexander Peters, Molly Rumble, Reed Tankersley |
| Piano: | Vladimir Rumyantsev |
| With: | Third Coast Percussion (David Skidmore, Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin) |
| And: | Constance Volk (flute) |
| Music: | 33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, Op. 120 by Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Live musical performance: | Vladimir Rumyantsev |
| Performance: | Renan Cerdeiro, Angela Falk, Miriam Gittens, Oliver Greene-Cramer, Kyle Halford, Daisy Jacobson, Marzia Memoli, Nicole Ashley Morris, Alexander Peters, Reed Tankersley |
| Costume design: | Geoffrey Beene |
| Costume coordination: | Victoria Bek |
| Lighting design: | Justin Townsend |
| Covering: | Zachary Gonder, Molly Rumble |
| Commission: | Cité de la musique, Paris; Barbican Center, London; University of Iowa - Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City |
| TITLE: | SLACKTIDE |
| Year and length: | 2025 – approx. 30’ (European premiere) |
| Choreography: | Twyla Tharp |
| Music: | Aguas da Amazonia by Philip Glass |
| Live musical performance: | Third Coast Percussion (David Skidmore, Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin) |
| And: | Constance Volk (flute) |
| Performance: | Renan Cerdeiro, Angela Falk, Miriam Gittens, Oliver Greene-Cramer, Kyle Halford, Daisy Jacobson, Marzia Memoli, Nicole Ashley Morris, Alexander Peters, Molly Rumble, Reed Tankersley |
| Costume design: | Victoria Bek |
| Lighting design: | Justin Townsend |
| Commission: | New York City Center, New York; John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.; UCSB Arts & Lectures, Santa Barbara |
| Arrangement: | Third Coast Percussion (2024) |
| With the support of: | Modlin Center for the Art- University of Richmond; Zell Family Foundation; Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art; Julian Family Foundation Steph & Daniel Heffner |
| Artistic association: | Alexander Brady |
| Production supervision and stage management: | Tony Crawford |
| Lighting supervision: | Jesse Campbell & Stacey Boggs |
| In collaboration with: | Fondazione Teatro La Fenice di Venezia |
Dance
Twyla Tharp Dance - Diabelli + Slacktide
Diabelli Description
In the early 1820s, Beethoven completed one of the most revered sets of variations for solo piano. Utilising Anton Diabelli’s simple Waltz in C Major, he composed 33 variations that demonstrate the breadth of his technical mastery, creativity, knowledge of Western music and humour. The opening sequence of Tharp’s Diabelli presents a simple movement theme – swinging arms, skips and gallops, a basic waltz step. From there, Tharp matches Beethoven variation for variation. She makes allusions, varies rhythm and tempi, inverts and reverses material from the theme. The mood of each section is distinct: one may be academic and technical, the next theatrical. Diabelli is a tour de force requiring technical facility, stamina and dramatic presence from the pianist and the dancers.
SLACKTIDE Description
Philip Glass’ ten-part suite Aguas da Amazonia was composed between 1993 and 1999, and is arranged and performed live by Third Coast Percussion, the first percussion ensemble to win a Grammy Award. Named after the short period of time when water lies suspended between opposing forces, SLACKTIDE is about geometry and space in time, and about different identities existing in a coordinated form. Showcasing Tharp’s uncanny and witty use of music to create work of startling originality and beauty, the dances in this programme once again ensure her place as one of the great artists of our time.