Sarah Crowner | Pastoral

Pastoral, the latest world premiere from Fisher Center LAB Choreographer in Residence Pam Tanowitz is a major new collaboration with visual artist Sarah Crowner and composer Caroline Shaw. The performances will be held June 27–29 at the Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, as a part of Bard SummerScape.⁠

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 has been 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.⁠

To learn more about the perfoamnce and to pucahse tickets, please visit the Fisher Center website.