NEW YORK — Twyla Tharp threw down a gauntlet in 1973: She mixed classical and modern dance to make the first crossover ballet, “Deuce Coupe.” It was a revolutionary work, and to pull it off she needed ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Wouldn’t it be nice if we could have the order of ballet and the freedom of rock? That’s the dream of “Deuce Coupe,” new to American ...

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After 15 years of hard work, Misty Copeland was named principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre, becoming the first African American woman to do so. She's coming to Memorial Hall at the ...

The New York City Ballet principal dancer is en pointe this season as beauty queen Ivy Smith By Ashley Lee Megan Fairchild ON THE TOWN Production Still - H 2014 One of the stars of On The Town is ...

Jane Eyre and Twyla Tharp have very little in common, except that both of them were featured in the latter weeks of the ABT season, just ended. Who do you think came off better? Not Jane. In England, ...

When he’s not writing autobiographies which cast him in a somewhat poor light and when he’s not coaching Team Italy, Mike Piazza is gettin’ his coupé dessous and coupé dessus on. Mike Axisa of ...

Kadee Jacobsen is always up for a challenge, even one as daunting as building a bridge from ballet to hip-hop. When we commissioned Nanuet’s Coupé Theatre Studio to be inspired by the Tappan Zee ...

I have seen lots of after school programs where the kids run around chasing each other to kill the time and others where the kids play ping pong, Foosball and board games. But today I went On The Road ...

Performances in N.Y.C. On the occasion of American Ballet Theater’s revival of the game-changing “Deuce Coupe,” Ms. Tharp and Sara Rudner talked with the dancers taking their roles, Isabella Boylston ...

“‘Deuce Coupe’ said, OK look, we have modern dance over here and we have ballet over here and we have this big void in between,” Tharp said. “Why is there this gully in dance? I think everybody should ...