Song of Songs

Pam Tanowitz

Show
Christine Flores, Melissa Toogood, Victor Lozano, Maile Okamura and Zachary Gonder on stage
Chorégraphe
Pam Tanowitz
Duration
60 min

In 2023, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting the Fisher Center at Bard for the creation of Song of Songs by Pam Tanowitz.

Spiritual, playful, and mysterious, the biblical Song of Songs (also known as The Song of Solomon) is perhaps the greatest of all love poems—a hymn of yearning, steeped in images from the natural world. The poem has inspired artists and lovers for millennia. Now composer David Lang and choreographer Pam Tanowitz join forces to create a major new dance performance inspired by this beautiful text. A union of song and movement, Song of Songs moves between abstraction and figuration to create a meditation on loving and being.

Photo © Maria Baranova

“I feel a deep personal connection with this work—an intimate, small-scale love story. The use of this text provides a framework to push myself artistically.”
Victor Lozano, Maile Okamura, Zachary Gonder, Lindsey Jones, Christine Flores, Melissa Toogood, Brian Lawson on stage
01 / 05 — Song of Songs by Pam Tanowitz © Maria Baranova
Melissa Toogood sur le sol, une jambe tendue vers le ciel, Zachary Gonder sautant en arrière-plan
02 / 05 — Song of Songs by Pam Tanowitz © Maria Baranova
Brian Lawson, Victor Lozano, Melissa Toogood, Maile Okamura, Zachary Gonder, Christine Flores, Lindsey Jones on stage
03 / 05 — Song of Songs by Pam Tanowitz © Maria Baranova
Melissa Toogood in attitude, leaning to the side, Zachary Gonder sitting in the background
04 / 05 — Song of Songs by Pam Tanowitz © Maria Baranova
Brian Lawson on a jump with his arms out to the side and pointed foot
05 / 05 — Song of Songs by Pam Tanowitz © Maria Baranova

About the artist

Pam Tanowitz

Pam Tanowitz

In 2023, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting New-York based choreographer Pam Tanowitz for her new creations Secret Things and Song of Songs

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