Pam Tanowitz Dance
PASSAGEN featuring violinist Pauline Kim Harris
The Spectators (excerpt) featuring FLUX Quartet
Freedom teases form and the graceful traditions of ballet and modern dance fracture in gorgeous, post–modern moments, set to contemporary scores performed live. The onstage vitality of violinist Harris, playing John Zorn’s PASSAGEN, and FLUX Quartet, performing Annie Gosfield’s score, as well as recorded music by composer Dan Siegler, augment witty excerpts from Tanowitz’s acclaimed The Spectators.
eighth blackbird
Erase by Andy Akiho (New York Premiere)
Murder Ballades by Bryce Dessner (New York Premiere)
Counting Duets by Tom Johnson/Études by György Ligeti
these broken wings 3 by David Lang
This exuberant, triple Grammy–winning contemporary classical sextet tackles a wide-ranging program, including N.Y. premieres by forward-looking young composers (Dessner of The National/Clogs, steel pan innovator Akiho) and contemporary masters (Bang on a Can’s Lang, the influential Ligeti).