Pastoral / Pam Tanowitz Dance and Fisher Center at Bard
Pastoral is the latest world premiere from Fisher Center LAB Choreographer in Residence Pam Tanowitz at Bard SummerScape, in a major new collaboration with composer Caroline Shaw and visual artist Sarah Crowner.
Following the success of Four Quartets, named “the greatest creation of dance theater so far this century” by The New York Times, and Song of Songs, regarded as “a thing of beauty” by The Guardian, Tanowitz continues her series of major performances that respond to masterworks of the past.
Setting the dance to Beethoven’s beloved Symphony No. 6 in F Major, the “Pastoral,” Tanowitz then removes the music, replacing it in part with silence, in part with a specially commissioned score by her long-time collaborator, renowned composer Caroline Shaw, which itself responds to and transforms the Beethoven score. The décor for the production will be created by Brooklyn-based painter Sarah Crowner, well-known for her “cut & stitch” abstract canvases, which evoke pastoral landscapes in magnificent jewel colors. The resulting performance will be a gorgeous palimpsest of many artistic layers, with Beethoven’s evocation of the natural world as a guiding spirit.
Creative Team
Pam Tanowitz Choreographer
Sarah Crowner Décor Design
Caroline Shaw Composer
Reid Bartelme Costume Design
Justin Ellington Sound Design
Davison Scandrett Production Design
Nicholas Houfek Associate Production Design
Nicole Mitchell Mommen Stage Manager
Maile Okamura Rehearsal Director
Madeleine Reilly Company Manager
Jason Collins Producer
Dancers of Pam Tanowitz Dance
Marc Crousillat Dancer
Christine Flores Dancer
Lindsey Jones Dancer
Maile Okamura Dancer
Caitlin Scranton Dancer
Stephanie Terasaki Dancer
Anson Zwingelberg Dancer
Taylor LaBruzzo Understudy
Musicians
Dana Jessen Bassoon
Bill Kalinkos Clarinet/Bass Clarinet
Andrew Nogal Oboe/English Horn
