Pam Tanowitz: "I Would Rather Fail at Something Interesting Than Do Something Boring"
Siobhan Burke
Dance Magazine
Mar 29, 2021

"When theaters shut down in New York City early last year, Pam Tanowitz didn't know what to do with herself. She had just returned to Manhattan from Los Angeles, where her company, Pam Tanowitz Dance, had performed Four Quartets, her epic work set to T.S. Eliot's poem of the same name. Coming up on her calendar were a premiere for New York City Ballet's spring season, a run of her New Work for Goldberg Variations in London, her company's Lincoln Center debut and about a dozen other engagements. Soon they would all be canceled or postponed.

While some choreographers turned instantly to the screen as a performance space, Tanowitz held back, unsure of how to keep going, or whether to keep going at all."