Pam Tanowitz's dances are deeply personal takes on movement grounded in tradition. Tanowitz takes ballet steps and alters them into modern forms: traditional movement is twisted and thrown off-center, challenging the expectations of the viewer. Narrative is inescapable. No dance is a pure abstraction. We unconsciously assign motivation to the movers on a stage. Her work is a progression of pieces, in which one dance poses a question that is answered in the next. Form versus content, nihilism versus history, story versus abstraction are given equal play, yet she also treasures the visceral experience of full-bodied, technical dancing. It’s a fine line, but in showing the dance Tanowitz works to show how the dance is made.
The authority with which the choreographer Pam Tanowitz orders time and space in The Wanderer Fantasy is something rare, but there’s an offbeat quality to it… Her work has an instinct for the contrasts that make dance count: stillness against motion, small against large, slow against fast, the individual against the group, one group against another, upright beside supine.
- The New York Times
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Jan 2011 APAP Showcases
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Feb 27-28, 2011 Works & Process
Pam Tanowitz will create a new work to a new score by John Zorn-Femina at The Guggenheim Musem. |
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