Twyla Tharp

Showing what happens (lucky you) when you get caught between the moon and New York City, Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away, her terpsichorean celebration of the music of Frank Sinatra (27 songs, with the classic arrangements), swept, timelessly hip, into Segerstrom Hall.

James Scarborough: Come Fly Away, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Mesa, California James Scarborough 2012

Showing what happens (lucky you) when you get caught between the moon and New York City, Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away, her terpsichorean celebration of the music of Frank Sinatra (27 songs, with the classic arrangements), swept, timelessly hip, into Segerstrom Hall.

James Scarborough: Come Fly Away, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Mesa, California James Scarborough 2012

Two gifted choreographers, Jodi Melnick, a former Twyla Tharp dancer, and David Neumann, a dance-theater-comedy specialist, created the absorbing work on a commission from the Pillow, and it caps a shared evening of their individual works.

Debra Levine: Jodi Melnick & David Neumann Premiere Their Profound "July" at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Debra Levine 2011

Showing what happens lucky you when you get caught between the moon and New York City, Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away, her terpsichorean celebration of the music of Frank Sinatra, swept into Segerstrom Hall.

James Scarborough: Come Fly Away, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Mesa, California James Scarborough 2012

Seven other works joined them in rotation, all by hands best known for their modern-dance connections: Martha Clarke, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor and Twyla Tharp.

ABT's City Center Season Worked Best With Ballet Robert Greskovic 2011

Two gifted choreographers, Jodi Melnick, a former Twyla Tharp dancer, and David Neumann, a dance-theater-comedy specialist, created the absorbing work on a commission from the Pillow, and it caps a shared evening of their individual works.

Debra Levine: Jodi Melnick & David Neumann Premiere Their Profound "July" at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Debra Levine 2011

The ballets of Antony Tudor, Twyla Tharp, Frederick Ashton and others now have a proper home.

Michael Kaiser: City Center: A Remarkable History Michael Kaiser 2011

The ballets of Antony Tudor, Twyla Tharp, Frederick Ashton and others now have a proper home.

Michael Kaiser: City Center: A Remarkable History Michael Kaiser 2011

Principal dancer Gillian Murphy—who danced in Twyla Tharp 's "In the Upper Room"—said she had hoped the company's trip to Oman might be a good stop on the way to New Zealand, where her husband and fellow ABT dancer, Ethan Stiefel , is now the artistic director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet.

Keeping in Step With ABT Pia Catton 2011

The bottom of the cast list in the house program for Atlanta Ballet's world-premiere run of "Twyla Tharp's 'The Princess and the Goblin'" identified "Eleven Stolen Children."

The Kids Are All Right Robert Greskovic 2012