TITAS Presents, in association with the nonprofit AT&T Performing Arts Center, announced today that tickets for the world premiere of Twyla Tharp 50th Anniversary Tour will go on sale Monday, August 3rd at 10 a.m. The evening of new work by Twyla Tharp, one of the most important and influential choreographers of our time, will have its world premiere in Dallas at the Center’s Winspear Opera House in the Dallas Arts District at 8 p.m. on Friday, September 18th and Saturday, September 19th, launching Tharp’s 50th Anniversary Tour. The 10-week North American tour will celebrate Tharp’s five decades of dance-making for both modern and ballet companies, television, the Broadway stage and Hollywood films.
Tickets for Twyla Tharp 50th Anniversary Tour range from $200 to $12 and can be purchased, beginning Monday, August 3rd at 10 a.m., online at www.attpac.org/titas, by phone at 214-880-0202 or in person at the AT&T Performing Arts Center Information Center, 2353 Flora Street (Monday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.; Tuesday thru Saturday 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.). titas.org
This commissioning of new work by Twyla Tharp marks an important collaboration between Dallas nonprofits TITAS Presents/AT&T Performing Arts Center and four other leading dance presenters/performing arts centers across the United States. The 50th Anniversary Tour will be the first time since 2002 that Tharp has toured a group of dancers. Tharp’s company is comprised of 12 dancers, many of whom have worked with Tharp over the years. The music compositions for the new works are by J.S. Bach, Henry Butler, Steve Bernstein, and John Zorn.
“This commissioning project has been years in the making. The national partnership and commissioning of an artist as important as Twyla Tharp, with the world premiere taking place in Dallas, is enormously important to the missions of TITAS Presents, the Center and to the City of Dallas. We are establishing, internationally, our commitment to fostering new works and that the city of Dallas is committed to the arts,” said Charles Santos, Executive and Artistic Director of TITAS Presents.
TITAS, under the leadership of Charles Santos, has a long history of commissioning new works by such choreographers as Twyla Tharp, Mia Michaels, Dwight Rhoden, Jessica Lang, Adam Hougland and locally, Bruce Wood, Bridgett Moore and Ben Stevenson.
“There is a reason Twyla Tharp is called a legend: her creative engine never stops producing exciting and landmark works,” said Doug Curtis, president and CEO of the AT&T Performing Arts Center. “This premiere and commission, alongside the premieres by our resident companies, is a testament to the Center’s commitment to supporting artists and the creative process.”
The Joyce Theater in New York City and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, initiated the commissioning of the evening. Besides TITAS Presents/AT&T Performing Arts Center, the other members of the consortium include the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University in Chicago/Ravinia Festival Association and the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. The tour will also include stops in over 15 cities (venues and locations to be announced at a later date). An international tour is already in the planning stage.
The 50th Anniversary Tour will open the TITAS Presents 2015/2016 Season.
TITAS Presents Official Hotel Sponsor: Sheraton Dallas; Official Airlines Sponsor: American Airlines; Season Sponsors include: Heritage Auctions, TACA, Texas Commission on the Arts, City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts and Neiman Marcus.
