Martha Graham Dance Company Presents NEW@Graham

The Martha Graham Dance Company's NEW@Graham series offers a look inside the creative process of new works commissioned by the Company. On February 5 and 6, the Company will present a work-in-progress showing of a new dance by acclaimed choreographer Pam Tanowitz. Tanowitz will join Graham Artistic Director Janet Eilber for a conversation following the showing.

Bessie Award winner Pam Tanowitz, known for her abstract treatment of classical movement ideas, is creating a work for the Graham Company set to Caroline Shaw's scores Punctum and Valencia. For this new work, inspired by some of Graham's famed dance vocabulary, Tanowitz is taking the iconic movement, adding to it, and shaping it into something new. The work for eight dancers includes costumes by designers Ryan Lobo and Ramon Martin of TOME.

Tanowitz's work will premiere as part of the Graham Company's engagement at the Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts in Northridge, CA, in March 2019, and will have its New York premiere during the Company's two-week season at The Joyce Theater, April 2 14, 2019.

NEW@Graham will take place on Tuesday, February 5, and Wednesday, February 6, at 7pm, at the Martha Graham Studio Theater. Tickets are $25 (general) and $20 (students) and can be purchased by phone at 212-229-9200, or online at www.marthagraham.org/studioseries. The Martha Graham Studio Theater is located at 55 Bethune Street, 11th floor, in Manhattan.

Pam Tanowitz was awarded a Bessie Award in 2009, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts award in 2010, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011, and the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University in 2013 14. In 2016 Tanowitz was the Juried Bessie Award winner for her work the story progresses as if in a dream of glittering surfaces, and a recipient of a National Dance Project production grant for her work New Work for Goldberg Variations, a collaboration with pianist Simone Dinnerstein. In 2017 Tanowitz was the recipient of the Baryshnikov Arts Center's prestigious Cage Cunningham Fellowship. Her work was selected by the New York Times Best of Dance series in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2018. Tanowitz has been commissioned by The Joyce Theater, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Bard Summerscape Festival, Vail International Dance Festival, New York Live Arts, the Guggenheim Museum's Works & Process series, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, and Peak Performances, among others. She has also created or set work on the Juilliard School, Ballet Austin, New York Theater Ballet, and Saint Louis Ballet. In 2000, she founded Pam Tanowitz Dance to explore dance-making with a consistent community of dancers. Tanowitz holds dance degrees from Ohio State University and Sarah Lawrence College, and currently teaches at Rutgers University.