Twyla Tharp's In the Upper Room

[luvdance4545]

it is just called a lift

[GBOBrdwyfan7]

whats the lift called that she does at 00:17 ??

[freakyretriever]

Love how the girls wearing like sneakers! Lol

[SethHesio]

The whole album, and most of Philip Glass' other work, is on Spotify.

[carla67]

bad pas de deux.

[lululapeache]

Tharp is highly overrated. She managed to find her niche by comercializing her choreography for mainstream entertainment, allowing her financial success that most concert oriented choreographers (practically all, actually) will never achieve. Financial success is not the same as artistic acheivement, however. Nevertheless, she continues to be commissioned by noted dance companies while all she ever did was create some razmatazz for Broadway and film productions.

[NCAAHPERD]

Thanks for posting this video! We are always looking for high quality videos about dance and dance education.

[iancas]

bloody ugly choreography

[Ninjerina]

great music and decent choreography altho I feel like the costumes take away from the lines of the dancer and aren't aesthetically very pleasing

[houstonballet]

No, not that I know of. You could try contacting the Twyla Tharp Foundation.

[LittleLauraAlexandra]

ive tried searching that though but a few of the dance pieces are called that? did this specific video have a different name to this song?

[vsoltero88]

@LittleLauraAlexandra This particular piece is on an Phillip Glass album called Dancepieces. It has a few other pieces from In the Upper Room.

[houstonballet]

It's called "In the Upper Room". Glass wrote it specifically for this piece.

[LittleLauraAlexandra]

yeah but what's this piece called?

[houstonballet]

It's Philip Glass's In the Upper Room.

[LittleLauraAlexandra]

whats this music piece called?

[spainjane]

Fantastic - going to see a version in Alicante, Spain this week - can't wait. Twyla Tharp really is an brilliant choreography. Houston Ballet perform it with such style and ease!

[pictologist]

so wonderful - excellent!