Male dancers were a rare breed #twylatharp #dancequote #dance
Born in 1941 Twyla Tharp founded her own company when she was 23. She worked as Baryshnikov’s artistic associate at the American Ballet Theatre and after a while took a break. She returned to dance in 1991 and published her autobiography the following year. This quote comes from her book; “In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women, as they are still today. A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn’t afford to pay them.”
Wayne McGregor is a multi-award-winning British choreographer and director, famous for demanding choreographies and collaborations in the arts and sciences. I reviewed his work ‘Thinking with the body’ here.