Song of Songs is a thing of beauty. It’s a work of profound connection which, without any obvious show of emotion, fills the stage with love.
The show was premiered in the US in 2022, but much reworked for this British premiere; the choreographer Pam Tanowitz began to make it in 2018, after the death of her father Herb. The way she chose to honour him was by studying Jewish dance traditions and absorbing them into her own restrained and delicate style of movement. Nothing in the hour-long course of this great work feels unconsidered; watching it is like seeing molten thought.
