Wednesday Watch: Twyla Tharp’s Sinatra Suite

For this post-World Ballet Day Wednesday Watch, enjoy Twyla Tharp’s efforts to integrate the feel of social dance and a little retro style into the world of balletic technique, with this 1984 broadcast of her 1983 Sinatra Suite — a truncated version of the previous year’s longer Nine Sinatra Songs, which calls for casting a number of couples, imbuing a sense of ersatz competition across the dances: