Interwoven with her storied career and prolific works, Twyla Moves sees legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp navigate her latest creative challenge: making a dance for a world plagued by the Covid-19 pandemic.

When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.

An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. He is to become a dancer for the Bolshoi again, but he wishes to escape, but can he trust the American?

An aging agent is called back by “the Company” to run a hostage trade of a Soviet spy for an American agent.