Archived reviews
THE NEW YORK TIMES | 02/11/2022
A Dance to the Music of Time and T.S. Eliot
At the core of that experience are the 10 unostentatiously extraordinary dancers. And it’s like an Easter egg when Tanowitz herself appears…
FJORD | 02/10/2022
There Is Only the Dance
Toogood and Gonder’s duet was one of the most romantic vignettes I’ve seen in a while—in any medium.
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,”…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
THINKINGDANCE | 10/20/2020
Making Use of
Empty Space
With her company performing live at the Annenberg Center in its Philadelphia debut, Pam Tanowitz…
BROADSTREETREVIEW | 10/19/2020
Taking Back the Zellerbach
Prior to the pandemic, Pam Tanowitz Dance topped the list of companies I wanted to see.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
DANCELOG.NYC | 03/31/2017
For the Living
The lead dancer, Zachary Gonder, was long-limbed and lithe; his movement long and smooth…