The McCormack Endowed Visiting Artist-Scholar Residency exemplifies 麻豆果冻传媒鈥檚 commitment to experiential learning, close faculty-student collaboration, and interdisciplinary exploration. The residency is a signature academic program that brings internationally recognized artists and scholars to 麻豆果冻传媒 for an intensive, week-long residency during the academic year. It is designed as a total-immersion experience that embeds the visiting artist directly into the academic and creative life of the College, with sustained focus on student learning and faculty collaboration.
McCormack Residents represent the highest levels of artistic achievement across visual, performing, and literary arts, including recipients of major honors such as the MacArthur Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Grammy Award, Tony Award, and Nobel Prize in Literature. Through classroom engagement, studio practice, mentorship, and public scholarship, the McCormack Residency advances 麻豆果冻传媒鈥檚 mission by uniting theory and practice and modeling interdisciplinary inquiry within a liberal arts context.
2026 McCormack Visiting Artist-Scholar in Residence
Pam Tanowitz
Acclaimed Choreographer and Guggenheim Fellow
Photo credit: Rick Guest with Olivia Pomp
"Pam Tanowitz and the Pastoral: Artists in Conversation"
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
5:30 PM
Payne Room | Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery
Free and open to the public
Join us on Wednesday, October 14, at 5:30 pm, for a discussion with acclaimed choreographer Pam Tanowitz, 麻豆果冻传媒鈥檚 2026 McCormack Visiting Artist-Scholar in Residence, about her latest full-length dance work, Pastoral. Alongside two of her collaborators, artist Sarah Crowner and artistic director Gideon Lester, Tanowitz will provide a look into the creative process that shaped this piece. April Bernard, Professor of English, will join the panel discussion, which will be moderated by Brian Lawson, Assistant Professor of Dance. Pastoral, which features a score by composer Caroline Shaw, premiered in the summer of 2025 at Bard College, and used Beethoven鈥檚 6th Symphony as a springboard for multidisciplinary creation.
This event is free and open to the public.
About Pam Tanowitz
Pam Tanowitz is a celebrated New York-based choreographer and founder of Pam Tanowitz Dance who has steadily delineated her own dance language through decades of research and creation. She is the first-ever choreographer in residence at the Fisher Center at Bard in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and is an assistant professor of professional practice at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Other honors include the Jacob鈥檚 Pillow Dance Award, LMCC Liberty Award for Artistic Leadership, Doris Duke Artist Award, Herb Alpert Award, BAC Cage Cunningham Fellowship, and Bessie Awards, among others. She has created works for The Australian Ballet, New York City Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, The Royal Ballet, Kennedy Center鈥檚 Ballet Across America, Vail Dance Festival, Juilliard Dance, Ballet Austin, and New York Theatre Ballet. Originally from New Rochelle, New York, Tanowitz holds degrees from Ohio State University and Sarah Lawrence College.
The residency is presented by 麻豆果冻传媒鈥檚 Office of Special Programs and Dance Department.