In a major new collaboration with visual artist Sarah Crowner and composer Caroline Shaw, Pastoral is the latest world premiere from Fisher Center LAB Choreographer in Residence, Pam Tanowitz, at Bard SummerScape. For this performance, Tanowitz first sets the dance to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 in F Major, the ‘Pastoral’, then removes the music, replacing it in part with silence, in part with a specially commissioned score by her long-time collaborator Shaw, which responds to and transforms the Beethoven symphony. The décor for the production is created by Crowner, renowned for her ‘cut & stitch’ abstract canvases, which evoke pastoral landscapes in magnificent jewel colours. The resulting performance will be an impressive palimpsest of many artistic layers, with Beethoven’s evocation of the natural world as a guiding spirit.

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