The Ragtime Dance
Performed by Joshua Rifkin
I. Joplin: Fig Leaf Rag
Rudner, Wright, Tharp, Garcia-Lorca
II. Joplin: Scott Joplin’s New Rag
Rudner, Wright, Tharp, Garcia-Lorca, Rinker, Weiner
III. Roberts: Pork and Beans
Tharp, Rinker
IV. Bolcom: Graceful Ghost
Tharp, Wiener
V. Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag
Tharp, Garcia-Lorca, Rudner, Rinker, Wright, Wiener
VI. Joplin: The Entertainer
Tharp
VII. Joplin: The Ragtime Dance
Wright, Rinker
VIII. Joplin: Gladiolus Rag
Tharp, Rudner, Garcia-Lorca, Rinker, Wiener
IX. Mozart: Variations in C Major KV 265 “Ah Vous Dirai-Je Maman”
Rudner, Wright
Isabel Garcia-Lorca, Kenneth Rinker, Sara Rudner, Twyla Tharp, Nina Wiener, Rose Marie Wright
Premiered during the The City Center American Dance Marathon of 1972.
The Raggedy Dances is a much wider exploration of a single theme than Tharp had done before. The choreography has a feeling of simple, playful innocence. False entrances and a tongue-in-cheek striptease to "The Entertainer" give the dance a zany quality. As the six dancers shake, shimmy and roll their way through the movement, the easiness of the ragtime seamlessly transitions into a set of Mozart variations, popularly known as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star". Both the Mozart and Joplin compositions present a world of controlled lightness and naïveté.
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Rudner, Wright, Tharp, Wiener, Garcia-Lorca and Rinker in performance.
<p>©William Pierce</p> -
Wright and Rudner in performance.
<p>©William Pierce</p> -
Rudner performs at Williams College in 1974.
<p>©Tom Rawe</p>
Wright and Rinker perform the closing duet.
1. Fig Leaf Rag
Composed by Scott Joplin – 1908
2. Scott Joplin’s New Rag
Composed by Scott Joplin – 1912
3. Pork and Beans - One Step, Two Step or Turkey Trot
Composed by Charles Luckeyth Roberts
Copyright by Jos. W. Stern & Co. – 1913
4. Graceful Ghost Rag
Composed by William Bolcom – 1970
5. Maple Leaf Rag
Composed by Scott Joplin
Copyright Registered – 1899
6. The Entertainer
Composed by Scott Joplin
Copyright – 12/29/1902
Published by John Stark & Son
7. The Ragtime Dance
Composed by Scott Joplin – 1906
8. Gladiolus Rag
Composed by Scott Joplin - 1907
9. Ah, Vous Dirai-je, Maman / Variations in C major, KV 265
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – circa 1781
The Ragtime Dance
Performed by Joshua Rifkin