Twyla Tharp's Collaborative Habit

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Throughout her 40-year career, choreographer Twyla Tharp has collaborated with musicians, designers, thousands of dancers, and almost a hundred companies. In The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together, she explains why collaboration is important to her, how to collaborate successfully in your own life, and the lessons she learned in her successful collaborations Billy Joel, Jerome Robbins, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, David Byrne, Richard Avedon, Milos Forman, Norma Kamali, and Frank Sinatra, among others.

Event: Twyla Tharp will be signing books
Wednesday, December 2, at 7:30 pm
Barnes & Noble, Lincoln Triangle
1972 Broadway, at 66th Street

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