Diabelli

(1998, West Coast Premiere)

Choreography by Twyla Tharp
Music: 33 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120 by Ludwig van Beethoven

Live musical performance by Vladimir Rumyantsev

Costume Design by Geoffrey Beene
Costume Coordinator: Victoria Bek
Lighting Design by Justin Townsend

Performed by
Renan Cerdeiro, Angela Falk, Miriam Gittens, Oliver Greene-Cramer, 
Kyle Halford, Daisy Jacobson, Marzia Memoli, Nicole Ashley Morris, 
Alexander Peters, Reed Tankersley
Covers: Zachary Gonder, Molly Rumble

Diabelli was commissioned by the Cité de la Musique (Paris); the Barbican Center (London); 
and the University of Iowa, Hancher Auditorium (Iowa City).

INTERMISSION

SLACKTIDE

(2025, West Coast Premiere)

Choreography by Twyla Tharp
Music: Aguas da Amazonia by Philip Glass
Live musical performance by Third Coast Percussion and Constance Volk, flute
Costume Design by Victoria Bek
Lighting Design by Justin Townsend

Performed by
Renan Cerdeiro, Angela Falk, Miriam Gittens, Zachary Gonder, 
Oliver Greene-Cramer, Kyle Halford, Daisy Jacobson, Marzia Memoli, 
Nicole Ashley Morris, Alexander Peters, Molly Rumble, Reed Tankersley

SLACKTIDE was commissioned by New York City Center (New York), 
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, DC), and 
UC Santa Barbara, Arts & Lectures (Santa Barbara).

This arrangement by Third Coast Percussion of Aguas da Amazonia by Philip Glass 
was commissioned with support from Modlin Center for the Arts, University of Richmond, 
the Zell Family Foundation, the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation, 
the Julian Family Foundation, and Steph and Daniel Heffner.