Death, Sex & Money - No Slumping With Twyla Tharp
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
I talk with the dancer and choreographer about the low-budget beginning of her prolific career, and about dealing with new physical limitations while creating new works in her late 70s.
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| 0:00.0 | I want to actually start in a somewhat unconventional way. |
| 0:05.0 | Because we are thousands of miles across the country from one another, |
| 0:09.8 | is there a way that you can suggest that we both move our bodies to help us be? |
| 0:14.5 | Yes, you can do what I'm doing now. |
| 0:15.9 | If you were here with me, you would not need me to instruct. |
| 0:18.9 | But we are sitting in our swivel chair, and we are moving |
| 0:24.0 | our knees from side to side, and we are rolling our heels to the outside as we rotate from side |
| 0:32.2 | to side, and we're slumped. And we're concerned about the slump and we say sit up straight so we do that |
| 0:41.1 | we have to adjust it's a big deal you got to get your chair and much closer to the table |
| 0:45.2 | now you're adjusted you're sitting up straight and you're still woggling from side to side |
| 0:50.8 | you with me yes i am okay and i am4, and my toes are barely hitting the floor. |
| 0:58.3 | Are your toes, are your feet firmly planted on the ground in your chair? |
| 1:01.1 | Yes, and I'm 5.3. Get down. |
| 1:08.1 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 1:11.3 | How do you live your life? |
| 1:13.0 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 1:16.4 | Need more money, Steve. |
| 1:17.7 | I need more money. |
| 1:19.1 | And need to talk about more. |
| 1:21.1 | When you dance with me? |
| 1:23.9 | I'm in a sale. |
| 1:28.4 | Twyla Tharp is a five-foot three-inch giant in the world of dance. |
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