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Sun, 2 May 2021

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm GMT

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Keep It Moving – Life Lessons from Twyla Tharp

In conversation with Hannah MacInnes

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Legendary ballet choreographer Twyla Tharp shares her secrets—from insight to action—for harnessing vitality and finding purpose as you age.

Emmy and Tony awarding winner Twyla Tharp is the world’s greatest living ballet choreographer. But she is revered not only for the dances she makes, but for her astounding regime of exercise and nonstop engagement. She is famed for religiously hitting the gym each morning at daybreak, and utilizing that energy to propel her breakneck schedule as a teacher, writer, creator, and lecturer.

Now she joins How To Academy to answer the question she is asked most frequently: “How do you keep working?”

In this livestream event, she will share her insights into living with purpose as time passes. Tharp models how fulfilment depends not on fortune—but on attitude, possible for anyone willing to try and keep trying. It’s an unmissable treat not only for ballet lovers but for anyone wishing to develop a more hopeful and energetic approach to the everyday.

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Twyla Tharp

Choreographer

Twyla Tharp, one of America’s greatest choreographers began her career in 1965, and has created more than 130 dances for her company as well as for the Joffrey Ballet, the New York City Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet, London’s Royal Ballet, Denmark’s Royal Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre. She has won two Emmy Awards for television’s Baryshnikov by Tharp, and a Tony Award for the Broadway musical Movin’ Out. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1993 and was made an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1997. She holds nineteen honorary degrees, most recently from Harvard University. She lives and works in New York City.

Hannah MacInnes

Journalist and Broadcaster

Hannah MacInnes is a broadcaster and journalist. Alongside hosting How To Academy’s live programmes and podcast, she presents a cultural show on Times Radio and interviews on-stage at a number of other major literary events. She is the host of The Klosters Forum Podcast series and has written for the Radio Times, the Evening Standard and TLS. Before going freelance she worked for 8 years at BBC Newsnight, as Planning Editor and as a Producer / Filmmaker.

 

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