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DESCRIPTION:Oct 1-3\, 2026\nPam Tanowitz’s most ambitious projects origin
 ate from Bard College’s Fisher Center\, where this knotty postmodernist 
 is choreographer-in-residence. These dances are ambitious not just in scop
 e or prestige of partners (Brice Marden on sets\, for example) but because
  they work against Tanowitz’s predilection for abstraction. In 2018\, th
 e challenge was T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. Next was the ancient Song o
 f Songs. For last summer’s Pastoral\, the challenge from the canon was B
 eethoven’s Symphony No. 6\, “Pastoral\,” wherein the Enlightenment n
 otion of nature and its peasant caretakers grows before our eyes\, our ear
 s. The choreographer is “using that music as a frame\, but also erasing 
 it\,” she has explained. Tanowitz has set the dance to the symphony\, bu
 t we won’t exactly be hearing it. Caroline Shaw\, whose music is invaria
 bly dense without being insistent or static\, whittles Beethoven down to s
 ustained single notes and silence. The textile artist and painter Sarah Cr
 owner has applied her biomorphic designs in jewel hues to the sets. Each o
 f these astounding artists is worth showing up for\; together\, Crowner as
 ks\, “can we make our mediums more alive than they already are?”
LOCATION:Barbican Centre\, Silk St\, Barbican\, London EC2Y 8DS\, UK
SUMMARY:Pam Tanowitz Dance: Pastoral
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 storal
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