Open 24 Hours Dance Company, headed by choreographer-dancer Pam Tanowitz, performed a lively program of five pieces with an especially promising premiere titled simply  Duet.  In Ditch, a quartet, the dancers took their time in seizing images, just as a photographer would.  The effect was poetic, like maxims dropped one at a time for thoughtful perusal. Although the movement was loosely choreographed and there were moments in the performance when the dancers seemed to be holding it together by sheer will, there remained a fluid feeling throughout, the dancers' gestures remaining soft, feathery, and delightfully careless.

Tanowitz excelled in her solo, Blind Hill, in which a more refined and graceful look at her work as a dancer revealed itself.  Tanowitz's company is gaining a slow but steady following through her mix of modern Tayloresque choreography with down-home, downtown contact improvisation, plus a dash of irreverent comedy.