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Twyla Tharp Dance – Diamond Jubilee

  • February 7th – 9th, 2025 Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley
  • February 15th – 16th, 2025 Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Mesa
  • February 18th, 2025 Mccallum Theatre, Palm Desert
  • February 22nd – 23rd, 2025 The Soraya, Northridge
  • February 25th – 26th, 2025 The Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe
  • March 4th, 2025 Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, Sarasota
  • March 6th, 2025 Ruby Diamond Concert Hall, Tallahassee
  • March 8th, 2025 KeyBank State Theatre, Cleverland
  • March 12th – 16th, 2025 New York City Center, New York
  • March 26th – 29th, 2025 Kennedy Center, Washington
  • April 5th, 2025 Dominion Energy Center, Richmond
  • April 10th – 12th, 2025 Harris Theater, Chicago
  • April 15th, 2025 Overture Center, Madison
  • April 17th, 2025 McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton
  • April 19th, 2025 Byham Theater, Pittsburgh
  • July 17th – 18th, 2025 Biennale Danza, Venice

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Golden Lion of Biennale Danza 2025

© Twyla Tharp

In this dazzling celebration of her company’s 60th Anniversary, Twyla Tharp presents a double bill that offer audiences a breathtaking vista of her range as an icon in American dance.

Tharp takes on Beethoven’s intensely demanding Diabelli Variations, making visible the composer’s layered genius in her piece Diabelli. With each section of the Beethoven, unique in mood and texture, Tharp’s response—tender, teasing, transcendent, cheeky—commands all of the performers’ technical prowess and energy. The dancers change effortlessly from ballet to jazz to modern, with unexpected bits of social dance.

Glass’s iconic music comes alive in Tharp’s new work, SLACKTIDE, featuring a bold new arrangement created and performed live by members of the Grammy-winning Third Coast Percussion. Tharp’s dancers capture all the rhythmic, propulsive energy of this Glass suite, invigorated by a collection of custom-designed instruments.

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Americas France

Malandain Ballet Biarritz – The Seasons

February 5th – 15th, 2025 Le 13eme Art, Paris
February 25th, 2025 Quai 9, Lanester
February 27th – 28th, 2025 Théâtre Impérial, Compiègne

March 11th – 12th, 2025 Les Théâtres, Aix-en-Provence
April 26th – 27th, 2025 Detroit Opera, Detroit
April 29th, 2025 Wharton Center for Performing Arts, East Lansing
May 2nd – 3rd, 2025 Zellerbach Theater, Philadelphia
May 7th, 2025 Byham Theater, Pittsburgh
May 20th – 23rd, 2025 Gare du Midi, Biarritz
60 minutes

When Vivaldi Meets Guido

© Stephane Bellocq

The dance carries everything, from the joy of spring to the passions of summer…just a splendid invitation to meditate on the beauty of life and the passage of time.

Ariane Bavelier (Le Figaro)

Malandain Ballet Biarritz has become one of the most important companies of the French choreographic landscape. This original production combines Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and the little-known works of his contemporary and compatriot Giovanni Antonio Guido. Guido’s Seasons awakens memories of belle danse (baroque dance) in the 17th century, which emerged from the ideal of governing one’s body and mind, and moving with grace, accuracy, and lightness. With Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, dancers are moved by a more natural, more human form of dance.

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