Tony Winner Twyla Tharp Brings 50th Anniversary Show to Wharton Center Tonight

TWYLA THARP DANCE returns to Wharton Center to celebrate their 50th anniversary. TWYLA THARP DANCE, part of the Dance Series, will be featured tonight, November 3, 2015 in the Cobb Great Hall.

Tickets are available at the official source to purchase Wharton Center tickets online, whartoncenter.com, at the Auto- Owners Insurance Ticket Office, or by calling 1-800-WHARTON.

John Zorn, an American avant-garde composer, provides the vibrant introductory Fanfare for each act of the "50th Anniversary in Dance" performance. The first act features Preludes and Fugues, which radiates with Tharp's generous spirit and humanity. The dance is set to J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. The wild and raucous humor that Tharp locates in the jazz of Steve Bernstein and MSU alumnus Henry Butler runs rampant through Yowzie, featured in the second act of the show. Put simply by Ms. Tharp, "Preludes and Fugues is the world as it ought to be, Yowzie as it is. The Fanfares celebrate both."

With their immaculate technique and joy, Twyla Tharp's fierce band of dancers brings the choreography to life. In each premiere, Tharp turns her decades of experience - dances for Hollywood films, television, and the Broadway stage - into living proof that time is her partner as she continues to deepen and expand the singular imagination which makes her one of the century's most treasured artists.

An insight preview will be occuring before the performance at 6:45 p.m and an after chat will directly follow the performance.