The Commonwealth Club welcomes Tony- and Emmy-winning choreographer Twyla Tharp, who will discuss the art of collaboration. Using real-world examples -- including her own collaborations with artists like Mikhail Baryshnikov, Billy Joel, and Elvis Costello -- Tharp will illustrate how good collaborators are built, one day at a time, through practice, discipline, commitment, passion -- and, most of all, through habit. Learn more...
Tony-Winning Choreographer Twyla Tharp Speaks at Oshman Family JCC
Oshman Family JCC (Palo Alto, CA)
Holiday Shows Truce of Carols & Amahl and the Night Visitors from Mission City Opera
Mission City Center for Performing Arts (Santa Clara, CA)
Truce of Carols is a new opera based on true accounts of Christmas Eve, 1914, in the Belgian trenches of World War I, where opposing armies exchanged gifts and sang carols to each other across the battlefield. Amahl and the Night Visitors follows, telling the holiday tale of a young boy's stories that become reality. Learn more...