Choreographer Twyla Tharp

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Twyla Tharp is a legend in the world of dance. She's danced and choreographed professionally for nearly 60 years. Tharp is 82 and she's still working just as hard as ever. She has a new show that she choreographed – How Long Blues. When we spoke to Twyla she had just written a book called Keep it Moving: Lessons for the Rest of Your Life. We're thrilled to revisit this conversation. She's one of the most insightful, hilarious, and sassy guests we've ever had on the show.

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0:38.0	Twyla Tharp is a legend in the world of dance.
0:43.9	She's put on well over 100 stage shows.
0:47.7	Dancing in them or choreographing them.
0:50.2	She's won a Tony, an Emmy, an honorary doctorate from Harvard. She choreographed films like
0:55.1	Herr, Amadeus, and Radheim. She put on her first show in 1965, so she has been dancing now for nearly 60 years.
1:04.0	60.
1:05.0	Tharp is 82 now.
1:07.0	She's still working just as hard as ever.
1:09.0	She has a new show she choreographed
1:11.0	how long blues. It just debuted in New York City. And if that sounds
1:15.8	extraordinary to you, well, it sounds extraordinary to us too, but Twyla Tharp doesn't think so. When we talk to her in 2020, she said the secret to staying
1:24.9	healthy and vibrant is pretty simple. Just keep moving. That's actually the title of her book.
1:31.2	Keep it moving. Lessons for the rest of your life.
1:34.0	Twyla talked to me from New York and she's a corker.
1:38.0	Let's get into our interview. Twyla Tharp, welcome to Bulls. I am so happy to have you on the show.
1:48.6	Thank you very much, happy to be here.
1:50.5	So why did you want to write a book about moving and why did you want to use the definition of moving that is broader than just physical movement?
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