DANCE
TUESDAY - SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10 - 15, 2019
7:30 PM TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM THURSDAY - SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY

Pam Tanowitz & Simone Dinnerstein:  New Work for Goldberg Variations
Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan

$61-$90
https://www.joyce.org/performances/pam-tanowitz-simone-dinnerstein

It's always great to watch an artist hit her stride, and that's what's happened with Pam Tanowitz.  She's always been very good, but suddenly, over the last couple of years, she's been pretty consistently great — and, best of all, the world has noticed.  Her quirky and eccentric but beatifully realized dances have been poppping up on the programs of august ballet companies as well as Tanowitz's usual modern dance precincts, to great acclaim.  This is the long way of saying that this new piece, an exploration of Bach's seemingly bottomless Goldberg Variations, is something of an event.  That Tanowtiz made this piece in colloboration with Simone Dinnerstein, one of the most thought-provoking Bach-on-piano players around — with a mind as idiosyncratic as Tanowitz's (I'd have loved to be a fly on the wall at their work sessions) — who will accompany Tamowitz's wonderful company live, seals the deal.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  When a first-rate Tiki bar opens across the street from the Joyce, you've just got to hit it for all it's worth:  Jungle Bird.