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Song of Songs

Pam Tanowitz/David Lang

July 1, 2022

Add to Calendar2022-07-01 8:00 pm2022-07-01 8:00 pmEDTSong of Songs

SummerScape Commission/World Premiere

Choreography by Pam Tanowitz
Music by David Lang

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater,
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“Tanowitz has long been one of the most formally brilliant choreographers around.”—New York Times

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.

Creative Team

Choreography by Pam Tanowitz
Music by David Lang
Production design by Reid Bartelme, Harriet Jung, Pam Tanowitz, and Clifton Taylor
Sound design by Garth MacAleavey
Music Supervision by Caleb Burhans
Dramaturgy by Mary Gossy
Stage Management by Betsy Ayer

Performers

Christine Flores, Zachary Gonder, Lindsey Jones, Brian Lawson, Victor Lozano, Maile Okamura, and Melissa Toogood (rehearsal director)

Emily Brausa (cello), Sarah Brailey (soprano), Caleb Burhans (viola), Martha Cluver (soprano), Katie Geissinger (alto), and Yuri Yamashita (percussion)

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Support

The Fisher Center is Pam Tanowitz’s artistic home. Song of Songs is a co-commission of the Fisher Center, Barbican London, UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels.

Commissioning funds for Song of Songs were provided by Jay Franke and David Herro, with additional support received from the O’Donnell Green Music and Dance Foundation, Judith R. and Alan H. Fishman, Amy and Ronald Guttman, Lizbeth and George Krupp, Virginia and Timothy Millhiser, and King’s Fountain. The Fisher Center on behalf of Pam Tanowitz Dance received a 2020 NDP Finalist Grant Award for Song of Songs, made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to address sustainability needs during COVID-19. Cocommissioning support for the music of Song of Songs was provided by Flagey (Brussels), The Los Angeles Opera, Company of Music (Vienna), and The Crossing (Philadelphia).

 

 

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