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Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth to perform at Fort Worth Water Gardens
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D.C. Roberts
CD/FW at the Water Gardens, 1990
Members of the Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth company and guests will give a free performance of Twyla Tharp’s The One Hundreds: Phrases 1-100 at the Fort Worth Water Gardens, Friday May 15 at 7 p.m.
When Tharp originally choreographed the dance in 1970, she wanted to address three questions she faced as a performing dancer: 1) how accurate is my memory? 2) how good is my coordination? 3) how strong is my sense of beginnings, middles and endings? Tharp created the 100 eleven-second phrases in answer to these questions. Combining imagery from traditional dance techniques, sports, and popular culture, Tharp's sense of eclecticism and adventure is apparent in these 100 dance phrases, which seem nearly as cutting edge today as they did in 1970. The series of phrases is like a series of short stories with a variety of references and entry points for different viewers.
CD/FW presented this work at the Modern Dance Festival at The Modern (at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth) last July and at the Out of the Loop Festival at the Water Tower Theatre in Addison in March. The company has also performed portions of it in special "Dance Delivered" educational outreach programs throughout the 2008-2009 school year. This free 25-minute performance is being added as an additional community outreach presentation.
Source: Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth
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