DANCE

Twyla Tharp: In the Upper Room/Nine Sinatra Songs

WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 – 23, 2022
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY

New York City Center
131 West 55th Street, Midtown, Manhattan

$45-$170
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Twyla Tharp has long since revealed herself as the Show Biz Wing of the Postmodern Dance Movement, and I for one have a hard time continuing to take her seriously. But these two pieces, from the 1980s, are great: what Tharp is good for. In the Upper Room, set to Philip Glass, is excitement on a stick. Nine Sinatra Songs is not only great fun, but it’s culturally significant: it encapsulates the moment when the Rock Generation was beginning to come to terms with the fact that the mocked, derided Frank Sinatra was in fact a supreme popular artist. The beginning of the end of Rockism!

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Frenchette goes Uptown and simplifies out what made it great, but leaves in what makes it good, at (speaking of Rockism) Le Rock.