FOUR QUARTETS
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Choreography: Pam Tanowitz•Performed by Kara Chan, Jason Collins, Dylan Crossman, Christine Flores, Zachary Gonder, Lindsey Jones, Victor Lozano, Maile Okamura, Melissa Toogood with Kathleen Chalfant•Music by Kaija Saariaho• Music Performed by The Knights Ensemble•Sound Design by Jean-Baptiste Barriére•Text by T. S. Eliot•Images by Brice Marden•Scenic and Lighting Design by Clifton Taylor•Costume Design by Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung
Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot’s mysterious and beautiful masterpiece, is a meditation on time and timelessness and is now prized as one of the 20th century’s most stunning literary achievements. Seventy-five years after its publication, Eliot’s poetry cycle has inspired three astonishing contemporary artists to join forces in a ravishing union of dance, music, painting, and poetry.
A Fisher Center at Bard Production
Four Quartets is co-commissioned by the Bard Fisher Center, where it received its world premiere in Bard SummerScape 2018, the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, Barbican, London, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.•GAGOSIAN is the lead corporate sponsor of Four Quartets. Major support provided by Rebecca Gold. Additional commissioning funds were provided by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, the O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation, the T. S. Eliot Foundation, King’s Fountain, Virginia and Timothy Millhiser, and Cultural Services of the French Embassy. Creation of the music was supported by the Thendara Foundation and New Music USA.
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World Premiere: Fisher Center at Bard•SummerScape• 2018
Barbican Centre•May 22-25, 2019
CAP UCLA•February 15-16, 2022
BAM•February 10-12, 2022
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The greatest creation of dance theater so far this century.•The New York Times
Pam Tanowitz has created dance theater of the highest caliber.•The New York Times
…Pam Tanowitz’s own profound FOUR QUARTETS moves not only in time but as time. Traversing rhythmic and dynamic extremes – skittering en masse one moment and clearing the stage for a lonely adagio that radiates limbs the next – the dancers seemed to incarnate time.• Financial Times
Rarely do dance, music, poetry and image come together as sublimely as they have in FOUR QUARTETS.• The Berkshire Eagle
Photos by Marina Baranova
