"Movin' Out" follows a group of working-class baby boomers from New York's Long Island, who couple and uncouple, and endure the destructive forces of Vietnam and the counterculture. But the show has characters and a narrative line, expressed in dance, that Tharp has pieced together from Joel's songs. "This is not a book musical we do not have book scenes." Or dialogue. "We can't come up with a name for what this is," says Tharp. "Uptown Girl," Billy Joel.īoth Tharp and Joel are quick to say that "Movin' Out" is not a musical in the conventional sense. This week Tharp faces the critics again when she opens "Movin' Out," a hugely ambitious $8 million Broadway show she conceived, choreographed and directed to the music of Mr. She made dances for movies and her own company, using music by Mozart or the Beach Boys with equal flair.
She put ballerinas in tennis shoes, and choreographed for American Ballet Theater. "I would've taken a really foul review." Since then, Tharp has continued to blast the boundaries between high and low art. "I was really pissed," Tharp recalled over breakfast last week, still sounding a little irritated. In Twyla Tharp's very first public performance, back in 1965, she danced briefly to Petula Clark's pop hit "Downtown." No one covered the event.
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