SARAH CROWNER
Pam Tanowitz and the Pastoral: Artists in Conversation (artist talk)
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
Wednesday, 14 October 2026, 5.30pm
Sarah Crowner will join choreographer Pam Tanowitz and artistic director Gideon Lester for a conversation about their full-length dance work, Pastoral. The event will be held at Skidmore College, where Tanowitz is serving as the 2026 McCormack Visiting Artist-Scholar in Residence. Offering an insight into the creative process that shaped this piece, the event is free and open to the public.
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SARAH CROWNER
The Barbican, London
1–3 October 2026
Sarah Crowner’s collaboration with choreographer Pam Tanowitz and composer Caroline Shaw, Pastoral, will be staged at the Barbican Theatre, London. For this performance, Tanowitz first sets the dance to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 in F Major, the ‘Pastoral’, then removes the music, replacing it in part with silence, in part with a specially commissioned score by her long-time collaborator Shaw, which responds to and transforms the Beethoven symphony. The décor for the production is created by Crowner, renowned for her ‘cut & stitch’ abstract canvases, which evoke pastoral landscapes in magnificent jewel colours. The resulting performance will be an impressive palimpsest of many artistic layers, with Beethoven’s evocation of the natural world as a guiding spirit.
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SARAH CROWNER
The Bass Museum of Art, Miami
20 August 2025 – 21 June 2026
Work by Sarah Crowner is featured in Faire Foyer: Sarah Crowner in Dialogue with Etel Adnan at Bass Museum of Art, Miami. The exhibition brings together new works by Crowner and a monumental ceramic mural by Etel Adnan, the only example of its kind by Adnan in the United States.
Crowner’s highly reflective bronze sculptures, arranged in relation to the mural, are presented alongside photographs of the California coastline taken by Adnan in the 1960s. The installation invites viewers into a spatial encounter with materiality and movement, observing the traditions of abstraction explored by both artists.
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