Alumna Pam Tanowitz (BFA, Dance, 1991) has been awarded one of four Mary MacKall Gwinn Hodder Fellowships for the 2013-14 academic year by the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. The fellowship is given annually to writers, composers, choreographers, visual artists and other artists who show exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton. Selected more for “promise than performance,” the four were chosen from a pool of more than 1,100 applicants. They will spend an academic year at Princeton, with a $68,000 stipend to undertake significant new work.

Tanowitz founded Pam Tanowitz Dance in 2000 and has received commissions and residencies at The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, the Guggenheim Museum’s Works & Progress program, and Baryshnikov Arts Center. She received a 2009 Bessie Award for Be in the Gray With Me at Dance Theater Workshop and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011. She has set her work on students at The Julliard School, Purchase Dance Corp., Marymount Manhattan College, Oregon Ballet Theater, and The Ohio State University. She earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.

The other three awardees are filmmaker Chinonye Chukwu, poet Katy E. Didden, and writer Adam Ross.