Directed by Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Steven Cantor, Twyla Moves will feature never-before-seen interviews and select performances from Tharp’s library of 160-plus choreographed works.
In association with American Masters Pictures, Twyla Moves will paint an intimate portrait of Tharp’s storied career and her intensive creative process. A pioneer of both modern dance and ballet, Tharp will share in-depth insight into her influential career from pioneering dances, her cinematic partnership with Miloš Forman (Hair, Amadeus, Ragtime), and her successful career as a Broadway star alongside such luminaries as Billy Joel, Frank Sinatra and David Byrne.
Featured throughout the film will be interviews with Tharp’s family, and friends, as well as her closest dance and film collaborators including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Billy Joel, David Byrne, and Bob Dylan, among others.
Twyla Moves will have its world premiere at SXSW in 2021.