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Pastoral

Pam Tanowitz

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In 2025, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting Pam Tanowitz for the creation of Pastoral

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 and Song of Songs, 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.

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Pam Tanowitz

In 2025, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels presents Neither Drums Nor Trumpets by Pam Tanowitz in collaboration with the Royal Ballet and Opera as part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels festival in London. 

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