Bard SummerScape’s Pastoral Named in New York Times “Best Dance of 2025”
A scene from Pastoral.
Pastoral, a dance performance by Fisher Center LAB Choreographer in Residence Pam Tanowitz which premiered at SummerScape last summer, was included in the New York Times’s list of top dance performances of 2025. Collecting ten favorite dance performances from the year, Gia Kourlas said the major theme of dance in 2025 was emotion. Pastoral, which responds to Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 6 in F Major,” incorporates bright costumes and backgrounds painted by artist Sarah Crowner. “For years now, a Pam Tanowitz premiere at Bard SummerScape has pretty much guaranteed aesthetic pleasure,” wrote the Times. “Pastoral, her latest, did not disappoint. [Her] witty, complex choreography suggested not the storm and stress of nature, but nature contemplated in the tranquility of art.”
Post Date: 12-09-2025
Post Date: 12-09-2025