Pam Tanowitz

Pam Tanowitz is a celebrated New York-based choreographer known for her post-modern treatment of classical dance vocabulary. As Pam Tanowitz Dance’s founder, she has steadily delineated her own choreographic language through decades of research and creation.

She is the first-ever artist in residence at the Fisher Center at Bard in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and is an assistant professor of professional practice at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Other honors include the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, LMCC Liberty Award for Artistic Leadership, Doris Duke Artist Award, Herb Alpert Award, BAC Cage Cunningham Fellowship, Bessie Awards, among others.

She has created works for The Australian Ballet, New York City Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, The Royal Ballet, Kennedy Center’s Ballet Across America, Vail Dance Festival, Juilliard Dance, Ballet Austin and New York Theatre Ballet. Originally from New Rochelle, New York, Tanowitz holds degrees from Ohio State University and Sarah Lawrence College.