I WAS WAITING FOR THE ECHO OF A BETTER DAY

Pam Tanowitz and Jessie Montgomery

Event Schedule

July 8 at 7:30 pm
July 9 at 7:30 pm
July 10 at 7:30 pm
Choreography by Pam Tanowitz
Music by Jessie Montgomery and Big Dog Little Dog

A new commission from the Fisher Center’s Choreographer-in Residence Pam Tanowitz (SummerScape 2018’sFour Quartets) and the ASCAP Foundation’s Leonard Bernstein Award-winning composer Jessie Montgomery (whose work was featured in Bard Music Fesival's Out of the Silenceseries in 2020). Performed with live music, this large-scale dance is set against the spectacular backdrop of the Hudson River and the sun setting behind the Catskill Mountains. Utilizing the full breadth of Montgomery Place’s historic parkland,I was waiting for the echo of a better daybeckons us back to gather on this land and pays tribute to what came before.

A companion film from visual artist and filmmaker Jeremy Jacob will be released in the Fisher Center’s fall 2021 UPSTREAMING season.

Montgomery Place

Member Hour: 6–7 pm

TICKETS
$60 for a 1–2 person pod
$100 for a 3-4 person pod
Commissioning funds for I was waiting for the echo of a better dayprovided by Jay Franke and David Herro.