Beethoven Opus 130

Beethoven Opus 130
World premiere date
Premiere location place
Saratoga Springs, NY
Dancers

Matthew Dibble with Kaitlyn Gilliland
Daniel Baker, Ramona Kelley, Amy Ruggiero, Eva Trapp, Nicholas Coppula, Reed Tankersley

Runtime
00:18:52

BEETHOVEN OPUS 130 is an octet set to Movements II and IV from Beethoven's late string quartet "Opus 130" including the "Grosse Fuge”. Beethoven had used fugal techniques throughout his career, advancing the form along the way. He wrote, “In my student days I made dozens of fugues…but imagination also wishes to exert its privileges…and a new and really poetic element must be introduced into the traditional form.” Tharp, with reference to her seminal 1970 work The Fugue, also thought of the fugue form in more dramatic terms for this work.

  • Twyla Tharp Dance performance in Florence, Italy. Photo by Graham 'gramilano' Spicer.

  • Twyla Tharp Dance performance in Florence, Italy. Photo by Graham 'gramilano' Spicer.

  • Matthew Dibble in performance at The Joyce Theater. Photo by Yi-Chun Wu.

  • Kaitlyn Gilliland and Matthew Dibble in performance at The Joyce Theater. Photo by Yi-Chun Wu.

Full music program

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

Movement I - Presto (Movement II from Opus 130)
Movement II- Alla danza tedesca: allegro assai (Movement IV from Opus 130)
Movement III - Grosse Fuge, Op. 133

Country Dances - Beethoven Opus 130 - Brahms Paganini | Twyla Tharp Dance (Tour)
Mesa Arts Center
Mesa, AZ
Country Dances - Beethoven Opus 130 - Brahms Paganini | Twyla Tharp Dance (NY Season)
The Joyce Theater
New York, NY
Country Dances - Beethoven Opus 130 - Brahms Paganini | Twyla Tharp Dance (Residency)
Orpheum Theater
Tannersville, NY