INDIANAPOLIS — Award-winning choreographer and dancer Twyla Tharp will speak March 18 at the University of Indianapolis as part of the university’s Sutphin Lectures in the Humanities series.
Tharp’s talk, titled “The Creative Habit,” will begin at 7 p.m. in Ruth Lilly Performance Hall of UIndy’s Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center, 1400 E. Hanna Ave. General admission tickets are $10, available at 11 a.m. Feb. 23 through UIndy’s Event Ticketing Center, www.uindy.edu/etc. Seating is limited, and doors will open at 6 p.m.
A native of Portland, Ind., Tharp has expanded the boundaries of ballet and modern dance by combining them with different forms of movement, including jazz, boxing and her own inventions. She founded her company, Twyla Tharp Dance, in 1965 and has choreographed more than 160 works: 129 dances, 12 television specials, six Hollywood movies, four full-length ballets, four Broadway shows and two figure-skating routines. Her books include The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (2003, Simon & Schuster) and The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together (2009, Simon & Schuster).
