Archived reviews

THE NEW YORK TIMES | 12/21/2021

Best Dance of 2021

…the outdoor dance show that gave me the greatest aesthetic high was Pam Tanowitz’s “I was waiting for the echo of a better day,”…

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THE BOSTON GLOBE | 07/24/2021

Brian Brooks/Moving Company gets back
in touch at Jacob’s Pillow

…the light skin-on-skin grazings of the action/reaction trio performed with sophisticated wit by Evan Fisk, Zack Gonder, and Stephanie Terasaki.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES | 07/11/2021

Review: A Better Day Dawns With Pam Tanowitz’s Witty New Dance

At first, viewers facing the vista had to twist back, as at a wedding, to see the first dancer — the radiantly lucid
Zachary Gonder…

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DANCE MAGAZINE | 03/29/2021

Pam Tanowitz: “I Would Rather Fail
at Something
Interesting Than Do Something Boring”

…Jung and Bartelme decided to keep secret one of their new creations, a design for dancer Zachary Gonder.

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FJORD | 12/12/2020

Tanowitz at the Joyce

This is where the performance became site-specific, in the cheekiest of ways… It was as if Tanowitz was saying, ‘if these walls could dance’... Zachary Gonder looked like a tin man or a robot until he appeared on the corrugated silver balconies.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES | 12/13/2020

Review: Finding
Hope in an
Unfinished Pam Tanowitz Premiere

On Saturday, the Joyce Theater livestreamed a premiere by the choreographer Pam Tanowitz…

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THINKINGDANCE | 10/20/2020

Making Use of
Empty Space

With her company performing live at the Annenberg Center in its Philadelphia debut, Pam Tanowitz…

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BROADSTREETREVIEW | 10/19/2020

Taking Back the Zellerbach

Prior to the pandemic, Pam Tanowitz Dance topped the list of companies I wanted to see.

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LA DANCE CHRONICLE | 02/17/2020

Pam Tanowitz’ Four Quartets: A Moving Meditation

Between 1936 and 1942 American poet T. S. Eliot wrote a set of four poems that were published separately…

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LOS ANGELES TIMES | 02/17/2020

A celebrated actress, choreographer, composer and painter stage T.S.’s Eliot’s ‘Four Quartets’

In 2018, Pam Tanowitz choreographed T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets,” with an original score by Kaija Saariaho…

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THE GUARDIAN | 05/23/2019

Four Quartets review — TS Eliot’s poems brilliantly danced

Choreographer Pam Tanowitz has been quietly plying her trade in New York for more than two decades.

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EVENING STANDARD | 05/23/2019

Four Quartets review: TS Eliot’s rhythm and rhymes make heartbreaking moves

In the closing moments, Zachary Gonder and Melissa Toogood sit, half in shadow, watching…

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THE UPCOMING | 05/23/2019

Four Quartets at the Barbican

Among the newcomers, all excellent, Zachary Gonder (who made a burning impression as a Juilliard student…

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THE NEW YORK TIMES | 07/8/2018

A Choreographer Unafraid of Masterpieces Takes
on T.S. Eliot

First Bach, now T. S. Eliot. Pam Tanowitz has developed a habit: choreographing
to masterpieces.

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DANCELOG.NYC | 03/31/2017

For the Living

The lead dancer, Zachary Gonder, was long-limbed and lithe; his movement long and smooth…

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