Matthew Dibble with Kaitlyn Gilliland
Daniel Baker, Ramona Kelley, Amy Ruggiero, Eva Trapp, Nicholas Coppula, Reed Tankersley
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.
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Twyla Tharp Dance performance in Florence, Italy. Photo by Graham 'gramilano' Spicer.
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Twyla Tharp Dance performance in Florence, Italy. Photo by Graham 'gramilano' Spicer.
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Matthew Dibble in performance at The Joyce Theater. Photo by Yi-Chun Wu.
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Kaitlyn Gilliland and Matthew Dibble in performance at The Joyce Theater. Photo by Yi-Chun Wu.
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