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  PAM TANOWITZ DANCE
October 30, 2006

The clear-sighted postmodernist expands her 2005 piece "Storage" to a suite of four interrelated dances -- three of them to portenteous music by Charles Wourinen.  Tanowitz's studious, deliberate dismantling of traditional balletic movements produces a stream of provacative, fresh juxtapositions.  In one eerie section, a girl is propelled forward ineluctably, like  a music-box dancer set loose in a fairy tale; in another New York City Ballet's Elizabeth Walker performs a stripped down solo en pointe.  Tanowitz's love of counterpoint extends to the background; whenever they aren't dancing, the dancers hover onstage, making shapes that contrast with or echo those of the main performers. (Danspace Project, St. Mark's In-the-Bowery. 2nd Ave at 10th St. 212-674-8194. Nov 2-5 @ 8:30pm.

 
     
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