The Fugue is the first work intended to become a piece of active repertory. The works that preceded were created as exercises; The Fugue is a culmination of those lessons. It is also the earliest work to be licensed by other dance companies.

Oct 13, 2015 · Originally performed in 1970. Read more about the University of Washington dance history collection and performances: http://kuow.org/post/how-save-century-d...

Apr 25, 2022 · The famous "Jig" (or Gigue) Fugue by Bach is a brisk, rhythmic, four-voice dance fugue and one of my favourite pieces. It is technically brilliant, light-hearted and energetic with its frolic...

Modeled on Bach’s “Musical Offering,” The Fugue consists of a twenty-count theme which is developed into twenty variations.

In classical music, a fugue (/ fjuːɡ /, from Latin fuga, meaning "flight" or "escape" [1]) is a contrapuntal, polyphonic compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches), which recurs frequently throughout the course of the compo...

Jun 15, 2018 · Chorégraphie : Twyla Tharp

Sep 29, 2017 · Three well-known choreographers of contemporary dance take a stab at Beethoven's "Great Fugue" in a fascinating experiment by the Lyon Opera.

Sep 15, 2017 · In early 1970, for Sullins College, Tharp made a piece called “YLFYFFYYFFFMPMPPPPP PW,” in which a woman performed a solo topless, then bottomless. Soon afterward came “The Fugue.” It, too, did...

"The Fugue," by Twyla Tharp. Dancer: Pablo Piantino. Tharp, Twyla. The Fuge. Dir. Hannah C. Wiley. Chamber Dance Company. Meany Theater, Seattle. 2008, 2013. Performance. …

“The Art of Dancing the Fugue” is a choreography for four dancers – two women, two men. It is meant to examine how visual music can be created today by four moving bodies and furthermore how today’s dance and motion technologies for modern …