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Song of Songs premiered in 2022 and now has its London opening at the Barbican Centre. The work sees American dance maker Pam Tanowitz collaborate with Pulitzer prize-winning composer David Lang.
What’s fascinating about the hour-long Song of Songs is that dance and music take a more cerebral and less visceral approach to something so obviously born out of physical desire.
The former chief dance critic of the New York Times reviews a timely new tribute to humanity at the Barbican: by Alastair Macaulay The pure, simple, and love-suffused beauty of “Song of Songs”, the hour-long Pam Tanowitz creation now making its European debut at the Barbican Theatre, is not of the knock-your-socks-off kind. It’s a