How Twyla trained the Russian master dancer Baryshnikov | Twyla Moves | American Masters

How Twyla trained the Russian master dancer Baryshnikov | Twyla Moves | American Masters | PBS

Рет қаралды 46,292

3 жыл бұрын

Official website: www.pbs.org/twylatharp | #TwylaTharpPBS
American Masters: Twyla Moves explores the life of legendary dancer, director and choreographer Twyla Tharp. Jumping from historical footage to the present day, the film traces her influential career while providing an intimate look at her famously rigorous creative process. Premieres nationwide Friday, March 26 at 9 p.m. in honor of Women’s History Month.
Subscribe to the American Masters channel for more clips: bit.ly/1JmUCu5
Enjoy full episodes of your favorite American Masters films: www.pbs.org/americanmasters
FOLLOW AMERICAN MASTERS:
Facebook: / americanmasters
Twitter: / pbsamermasters #AmericanMastersPBS
Instagram: / pbsamericanmasters #AmericanMastersPBS
FOLLOW PBS:
Facebook: / pbs
Twitter: / pbs
Instagram: / pbs
Shop: www.shop.pbs.org/
Twyla Moves explores the life of legendary dancer, director and choreographer Twyla Tharp. Jumping from historical footage to the present day, the film traces her influential career while providing an intimate look at her famously rigorous creative process. Emmy®-winning and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Steven Cantor (American Masters - Willie Nelson: Still is Still Moving) follows Tharp as she builds a high-profile work from the ground up with an international cast of ballet stars, including Misty Copeland, Herman Cornejo and Maria Khoreva, who rehearse by video conference while under quarantine during the coronavirus pandemic.
___________________________________
Launched in 1986 on PBS, American Masters has earned 28 Emmy Awards - including 10 for Outstanding Non-Fiction Series and five for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special - 13 Peabodys, an Oscar, three Grammys, two Producers Guild Awards, and many other honors. To further explore the lives and works of masters past and present, American Masters offers streaming video of select films, outtakes, filmmaker interviews, the American Masters Podcast, educational resources and more. The series is a production of THIRTEEN PRODUCTIONS LLC for WNET and also seen on the WORLD channel.

Пікірлер: 50

@PRANCERETTE 9 ай бұрын

There is nothing these gorgeous Russian trained Ballet dancers can’t do. That’s what they’ve been trained for. Their musicality and physical abilities just have no boundaries 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

@57113 7 ай бұрын

Magnificence only Misha is capable of. Perfecto 😅 A collaboration that we are still watch with amazement all these years later. 😊

@garotadagavea 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know if anybody else could pull that variation (3:44) off. It is a beast!

@simonedevlin7710 2 жыл бұрын

Misha Baryshnikov made the transition like no other classical ballet dancer. I had the great pleasure of seeing him perform in Vancouver in the early 1990's. It is about fluidity and coordination of movement.The entire production was mesmerizing and he just left us with sheer energy and desire. He is a force of nature unparalleled. I am enamored by flamenco and wonder what type of production he could create if interested. Hail hail Mikhail!

@valmacclinchy Жыл бұрын

I watched White Nights four times in the theater... I still hope to see him on stage in a play.

@user-tc7mf4mj6w Жыл бұрын

Un gran artista que puede encarnar lo que sea.

@deviritter5232 9 ай бұрын

He’s thrilling to watch.

@kristinen7611 Жыл бұрын

I wish we could watch the entire ballet. I wonder, do the videos of all of these old performances live somewhere that people can now watch???

@harmoniabalanza Жыл бұрын

I took a master class from her in 1973-4 ish. Man, she is one intense person.

@malinamih 3 ай бұрын

could u pls elaborate 😮

@ms.laterholmes2890 3 жыл бұрын

Blast from the past... Perfection! Way to break a leg! Drop the mic... Beautiful collaboration !! Thank you.

@chhaattygroovy 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Twyla! and Misha for giving us Push comes to shove! I enjoy watching it every time I do!!!

@SouthernArtist77 Ай бұрын

Amazing. Wow.

@lilysunshine3447 3 жыл бұрын

Let it go. Movement to the fullest.

@MrQbenDanny 3 жыл бұрын

The same choreography that ruined his knees. Tharp was the poster child choreographer of every chiropractor and Dr. HAMILTON in New York City. Push, was a kitschy B- ballet that ONLY the great Russian trained Baryshnikov made famous. The other 2nd, 3rd ,4th, 5th, casts principles failed miserably, got injured, and crawled into Maggie Black's studio on 48th st. and Broadway to heal.

@garotadagavea 3 жыл бұрын

3:44 is just a beast. He was defying the laws of motion. Just amazing.

@1BASIHASI 3 жыл бұрын

Also Haydns Music is played terrible - No Viennese musician would play this in this way. Thats not Viennese classic. Thats only brutally!!!

@MMMa3 2 жыл бұрын

I think you said it right " the great Russian trained Baryshnikov" . Better than the title of this video which insinuates that 'Tharp trained Baryshnikov'.

@IrinaK303 Жыл бұрын

@@MMMa3 There was no modern dance in Russia, so yes she trained him.

@pam0626 Жыл бұрын

Non-dancer here. Can you explain why Twyla’s choreography was so hard on the body as opposed to classical ballet movements? I find this fascinating.

@jutta3378 2 күн бұрын

The man moves like a panther!

@natalyalande 8 ай бұрын

Classical ballet dancers … lots of them… having danced classical for decades simply crave anything but different! Understandably they desire to test their legs in contemporary dance of any kind … all kinds available.

@patriciaadams4171 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Mik take those perfectly balanced spinning hips and now-go all akimbo. There now you Twylatized-em.

@jhlee3187 Жыл бұрын

❤❤😂

@BebbaDubbs 2 жыл бұрын

He is Latvian, not Russian.

@user-lf7hk7lv2s 9 ай бұрын

даа, Барышников несомненно латвиан, особенно фамилия. В14 лет уехал в Питер учиться балету.

@annonimus1234 5 ай бұрын

Jego rodzice byli Rosjanami a on urodził się w Rydze Od kilkunastu ma obywatelstwo Łotwy

@clarefeinson7201 2 ай бұрын

He was born in Latvia, but his parents were ethnic Russians, moved into Latvia as part of an effort by Russia to control the newly conquered area. Having said that, however, he probably felt more Latvian than Russian. Although his family spoke Russian at home, his friends were mostly Latvian and Jewish, and he spoke mostly Latvian outside the house. He didn't like to bring his friends home because his father would often break into sudden violent tirades that were antisemitic and anti-Latvian.

@zhenb1234 2 жыл бұрын

One of the best classic ballet dancer’s career was ruined by this woman.

@IrinaK303 Жыл бұрын

whose career was ruined?

@zhenb1234 Жыл бұрын

Who do you think? You don’t think Baryshnikov the best of all of classic ballet dancers but short lived?

@IrinaK303 Жыл бұрын

@@zhenb1234 He retired from classical ballet at 31, it is not a short-lived career for a classical dancer of his caliber by any stretch of imagination, especially considering that he continued dancing through his 70s. Show me a dancer with such "short" career... he is a true artists, came to the west to explore dance in all its beauty and complexity beyond classical, to work with a variety of choreographers...and I seriously doubt that one ballet by Twyla ruined his career...

@zhenb1234 Жыл бұрын

@@IrinaK303 You are entitled to your opinion. For an ordinary audience, there are only a few classic clips, very old ones, I can find. He started his modern dance career shortly after he came to the U.S. I wish he kept his classic ballet dancing much much longer so that we could enjoy watching him dancing in that capacity!

@IrinaK303 Жыл бұрын

@@zhenb1234 You expressed an opinion, I just listed facts. I share you sentiment: he is a phenomenal ballet dancer, and it would have been wonderful to see more of his performances. Having said that he is an Artist, and he made artistic and personal choices in relation to which our opinions and desires are irrelevant, frankly. And I am glad that he left classical ballet on a high note as opposed to lingering on and changing variations to suit his inevitably ailing body.

@AnnetteLynnG Жыл бұрын

He dances beautifully. She does not.

@tanay728 Жыл бұрын

It was making me cringe

@rogerforsberg3910 4 ай бұрын

I suspect that as many hours as Mme Twyla has trained Baryshnikov has trained twice as long -- or longer. For most normal people it takes 10,000 repetitions to begin to get competence in any sort of athletic move whether it's dancing, throwing a football, shooting a basket, hitting a baseball, or making a free throw. It's likely that Baryshnikov has a genetic predilection for classical dancing.

@clarefeinson7201 2 ай бұрын

I can't find the reference right now, but one of my books about MB says that one of Tharp's continuing frustrations in working with him was that he was so busy, they could only schedule about a tenth of the hours she would normally spend developing a new ballet with him.