Published: October 30, 2006

DANCE

PAM TANOWITZ DANCE

The clear-sighted postmodernist expands her 2005 piece “Storage” to a suite of four interrelated dances—three of them choreographed to portentous music by Charles Wuorinen. Tanowitz’s studious, deliberate dismantling of traditional balletic movements produces a stream of provocative, fresh juxtapositions. In one eerie section, a girl is propelled forward ineluctably, like a music-box dancer set loose in a fairy tale; in another, New York City Ballet’s Elizabeth Walker performs a stripped-down solo en pointe. Tanowitz’s love of counterpoint extends to the background; whenever they aren’t dancing, the dancers hover onstage, making shapes that contrast with or echo those of the main performers. (Danspace Project, St. Mark’s In-the-Bowery, Second Ave. at 10th St. 212-674-8194. Nov. 2-5 at 8:30.)