The McCormack Endowed Visiting Artist-Scholar Residency was created to continue the Office of Special Programs' rich artistic summer programming during the academic year. Designed to provide total immersion for both the artist and the Skidmore community, residencies feature class visits, opportunities for faculty/student interaction, performances, readings, and exhibitions.
2026 McCormack Visiting Artist-Scholar in Residence
Pam Tanowitz
Choreographer and Pulitzer Prize for Music Recipient
Photo credit: Rick Guest with Olivia Pomp
Residency details coming soon.
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’s 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’s 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 Skidmore’s Office of Special Programs,and Dance Department.