FOR CHANNELING ENERGY

Twyla Tharp

Dancer, choreographer, author

“I’ve always approached my time on this planet as a progression,” says 78-year-old modern dance icon Twyla Tharp. “It isn’t about chasing youth. It’s about preserving vi tality from day one all the way out.” In her fourth book, Keep published ast October, Tharp explains how to do just that, and she re mains proof that the lessons work: Tharp spent February and March 2019 working with the Mariinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia, as it prepared to put on her 1976 piece Comes to That March, she staged an evening of some of her biggest hits at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. She also choreographed a new ballet for the American Ballet Theatre, called A which premiered In October, and she continues to train dancers from the ABT and other companies remotely.