1. Stride – 1965
2. Re-Moves – 1966
3. After Suite – 1969
4. Disperse – 1967
5. History of Up and Down – 1971
6. Medley – 1969
7. Dancing in the Streets – 1969
8. The One-Hundreds – 1970
9. The Fugue – 1974
10. The Willie Smith Series – 1971
11. Eight Jelly Rolls – 1974
12. The Bix Pieces – 1974
13. Sue's Leg – 1976
14. Push Comes to Shove – 1976
15. John Curry: After All – 1976 / Three Fanfares – 1980
16. Dance Is A Man’s Sport Too – 1980
17. Hair, The Motion Picture – 1979
18. All About Eggs – 1974
19. Making TV Dance – 1977
20. Confessions Of A Cornermaker – 1981
21. Bad Smells – 1982
John Carrafa, Gary Chryst, Richard Colton, Theresa Dickinson, Anthony Ferro, Graciela Figueroa, Isabel Garcia-Lorca, Katie Glasner, Barbara Hoon, Margaret Jenkins, Mary Ann Kellogg, Renee Kimball, Sharon Kinney, Raymond Kurshals, Nancy Lefkowitz, Joseph Lennon, John Malashock, France Mayotte, Jeanne Nuchtern, Sheila Raj, Tom Rawe, Kenneth Rinker, Sara Rudner, Twyla Tharp, Margery Tupling, Christine Uchida, Shelley Washington, Lillo Way, Nina Wiener, William Whitener, Rose Marie Wright, Keith Young
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Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dick Cavett, John Curry, Peter Martins, Lynn Swann
Special thanks to: American Film Institute, Richard Avedon, Derek Bailey, Robert Barry, Fred Barzyk, Merrill Brockway, Milos Forman, Paul Goode, Rhoda Grauer, James Hindman, Robert Huot, Bill King, Michael Kustow, Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts, Genevieve Oswald, David Loxton, Mary Ann Tighe
Sound Collage: Peter Gordon
Graphics: Karl Hartig
Text Assistance: Allen Robertson, Sara Rudner, Rose Marie Wright
Production Assistant: David Bradford
Production Administrator: Steve Dennis
Post-Production Coordinator: Debbie Lepsinger
Editing: Kit Fitzgerald, John Sanborn, Twyla Tharp
VideoTape Editing: John Zieman, Alfred Muller, Nexus Productions
Produced For Twyla Tharp by Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn
Twyla Tharp's Scrapbook is an hour-long television special that chronicles Tharp’s career from 1965 to 1982. The program is divided into four sections; the first two focusing on choreography for Tharp’s company. “Work For Hire” excerpts the commissioned ballets and “Television” discusses her works for the small screen.
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Tharp (foreground) with Way, Washington, Glasner and Kellogg during a performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1984.
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Tharp in "Part II."
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The men in "Part II" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1984.
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Excerpts from the first two sections.
Excerpts from works by the following composers:
Thomas Albinoni, Johann Sebastian Bach, Bix Beiderbecke, Glenn Branca, Joseph Haydn, Snuffy Jenkins and Pappy Sherrill, Joseph Lamb, Meade Lux Lewis, Galt MacDermot, Jelly Roll Morton, Randy Newman, Frank Sinatra, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Rufus Thomas and Fats Waller