Twyla Tharp
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"One of the world's leading artists -- a living legend -- and bestselling author of The Creative Habit shares her secrets for harnessing vitality and finding purpose as you age. From insight to action, Keep It Moving is a guidebook for expanding one's possibilities over the course of a lifetime"--
At seventy-eight, Tharp hits the gym each morning at daybreak, and utilizing that energy to propel her breakneck schedule as a teacher, writer, creator,...
3) White nights
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Nikolai Rodchenko, a Russian ballet dancer who defected from the Soviet Union years ago, finds himself back in the motherland--trapped--thanks to an emergency airplane landing. The Soviets do not imprison him, however; they hope to score a propaganda victory by 'persuading' him to become Russian again. That is why he is sent to Siberia, to Raymond Greenwood and his Russian wife Darya. Greenwood is an American tap dancer who defected to Russia in opposition...
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When Twyla Tharp's The Catherine Wheel premiered on Broadway, it was described by Arlene Croce -- dance critic for The New Yorker magazine -- as "A major event in our theater," with "dancing of astonishing beauty and power." It was then completely refashioned by Tharp especially for television, with computer-generated figures, shadow-play, and reverse action - creating a wholly separate video version that has also met with overwhelming praise. The...
5) Hair
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Country boy Claude Hooper Bukowski, a Vietnam draftee, embarks on an adventure of a lifetime when he meets a group of counterculture hippies and becomes infatuated with Sheila, a beautiful debutante.
6) Hair
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Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park Lake and finally, in the army. But Berger's final effort...
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