Twyla Tharp Dance | Dance @ Detroit Opera | February 2025. Photo: Mark Seliger

February 1 and 2, 2025

Twyla Tharp Dance: Diamond Jubilee

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This groundbreaking evening is not one to be missed and is sure to dazzle audiences with its stellar dancing and phenomenal musicianship.

Twyla Tharp celebrates her 60th anniversary with a Coast-to-Coast tour featuring her Olivier-nominated Diabelli, set to Beethoven’s masterpiece the Diabelli Variations. The first and only choreographer to take on the intensely demanding and demonically complex work, Tharp makes visible the elegant humor and depth of the composer’s layered genius.

The program also features a new work, SLACKTIDE in collaboration with composer Philip Glass, their first since 1986. A reimagining of Glass’s Aguas da Amazonia score is augmented with new music and accompanied live by Chicago-based Third Coast Percussion, performed on a unique collection of custom-designed percussion instruments.

This groundbreaking evening is not one to be missed and is sure to dazzle audiences with its stellar dancing and phenomenal musicianship.

  • Run time: Approximately 1.5 to 2 hrs with one intermission
  • Dances: Diabelli
    SLACKTIDE
  • Music: Beethoven: Diabelli Variations
    Vladimir Rumyantsev, piano

    Glass: Aguas da Amazonia
    Third Coast Percussion
    Constance Volk, flute

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