Works & Process Presents Paul Taylor Dance Company: Pam Tanowitz and Sarah Crowner
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Works & Process
Works & Process presents a performance from Paul Taylor Dance Company featuring Pam Tanowitz and Sarah Crowner on Monday, September 14, 2026 at 7PM at the Peter B. Lewis Theater, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10128. Tickets start at $10 and can be purchased HERE.
Go behind the scenes of the Paul Taylor Dance Company’s (PTDC) newest work, a co-commission by American Dance Festival (ADF) from renowned post-modern choreographer Pam Tanowitz. The work brings together vibrant sets by painter Sarah Crowner that complement Tanowitz's abstracted classical and contemporary movement.
Prior to its premiere at Lincoln Center, experience the thrilling athleticism of the Taylor dancers in performance highlights, and hear from the artists and creative team. ADF director Jodee Nimerichter moderates a discussion with Tanowitz, Crowner, and PTDC artistic director Michael Novak. All are invited to continue the conversation at a reception in the rotunda.
“One of the most exciting, innovative, and delightful dance companies in the entire world.”
— The New York Times
Leadership support for this Works & Process program is provided by Charles and Deborah Adelman.
About Paul Taylor Dance Company
The Paul Taylor Dance Company is one of the world’s leading dance organizations, based in New York City and with vast international reach. Under the artistic direction of Michael Novak, together with the best dancers, choreographers, educators, and creatives, the Company continues to innovate and transform the landscape of 21st-century dance performance and education. The Taylor Company was founded in 1954 by Paul Taylor (1930-2018), one of America’s most celebrated artists, whose work reflected his belief that dance can convey complex truths about the human experience.
The hallmark of the Company is the brilliance of its ever-expanding repertory. Of the 170 dances that exist within the canon (147 choreographed by Paul Taylor), many are hailed as among the greatest works of the 20th and 21st centuries. While celebrating these masterworks of the past, the Company invests heavily in the future of the art form, appointing Lauren Lovette as the Company's first Resident Choreographer in 2022 and Robert Battle as the Company’s second Resident Choreographer in 2024. Dedicated to sharing dance and education with the broadest possible audience, the Taylor Company sustains a global presence through its robust touring programs. Since its first European tour in 1960, the Company has performed in more than 600 cities in 66 countries, representing the United States at arts festivals and touring extensively under the aegis of the U.S. Department of State.
With a vast new headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, Taylor Dance West, adding to its longtime downtown studios, Taylor Dance East, the Company under Mr. Novak is positioned to be a greater resource in New York City. Its three creative sites across the city - Lincoln Center for the annual performance season, Midtown for Company creation and training, and the Lower East Side for dance instruction and community engagement - together realize Mr. Novak's vision for multiple spaces across the city to connect with the world of Taylor. For more information, please visit www.paultaylordance.org.
About Pam Tanowitz
Tanowitz holds degrees from Ohio State University and Sarah Lawrence College, where she clarified her creative voice under former Cunningham dancer and choreographer Viola Farber. After attaining her MFA, Tanowitz moved to New York City to begin her professional career. She immersed herself in dance by working in administration at the New York City Center, splitting her time off by studying the Center’s archived dance videos or developing her own work in their studios. In 2000, she founded Pam Tanowitz Dance (PTD) to explore dance-making with a consistent community of dancers. She has since been commissioned by The Joyce Theater, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Vail Dance Festival, and many other leading arts institutions, and has received numerous honors and fellowships from organizations ranging from the Bessie Awards, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Herb Alpert Award, and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation among others.
When awarding Tanowitz the 2017 BAC Cage Cunningham Fellowship, Mikhail Baryshnikov, the center’s artistic director, described her interrogative approach to choreography as “a distinct intellectual journey.” Her dances have been called a “rare achievement” (The New York Times) and her 2018 work for PTD, Four Quartets, inspired by T.S. Eliot’s literary masterpiece and set to music by Kaija Saariaho, was called “the greatest creation of dance theater so far this century” (The New York Times). In 2019, in addition to receiving the Herb Alpert Award, Tanowitz was named the first-ever choreographer in residence at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
About Sarah Crowner
Visual artist Sarah Crowner makes paintings, ceramics, sculptures, installations, and theater sets. Her large-scale sewn canvases display a fluency in mid-twentieth-century art, artists, and architecture, with a particular regard for geometric abstraction and color field compositions. Crowner’s rigorous practice has long engaged thematic research with an abiding interest in materials, craft, and their related histories and processes.
In 2023, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation hosted Sarah Crowner: Around Orange, an exhibition of three new site-specific artworks responding to the architecture of the Pulitzer’s Tadao Ando building and Ellsworth Kelly’s monumental wall sculpture, Blue Black. In addition, the Hill Art Foundation presented The Sea, the Sky, a Window, a project by Sarah Crowner placing site-specific works by the artist in dialogue with sculptures and paintings from the Hill Collection, as well as key loaned works, most notably works by Cy Twombly. Other significant recent projects include a 2022 solo exhibition at Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico, which was accompanied by a catalogue, as well as a 2022 commission by the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX for a site-specific tile installation that will remain on view into 2024.
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