Dance
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Hong Kong Ballet at Jacob’s Pillow
First Visit to the Berkshires
By: - Jul 21st, 2012Now in its 33rd year the Hong Kong Ballet has toured twenty times while this is its first visit to Jacob’s Pillow Dance. The company adheres to mostly Western traditions of classical ballet with primarily Chinese and Asian dancers and a minority of European and North American members. For the past few years the artistic director has been Madeline Onne. She is a former Principal Dancer of the Royal Swedish Ballet. She founded the company 59 Degrees North which performed at Pillow several times. From 2002-2008 she was the Artistic Director of the Royal Swedish Ballet before joining the Hong Kong Ballet in 2009.
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Tero Saarinen Company at Jacob’s Pillow with Borrowed Light
Revival of 2004 Collaboration with The Boston Camerata.
By: - Jul 16th, 2012For 71 minutes I got religion while completely absorbed by the Shaker inspired Borrowed Light a collaboration between Tero Saarinen Company and The Boston Camerata. The 2004 work had its 2006 U.S. premiere at Jacob's Pillow and has returned via "popular demand" for Pillow's 80th season. It was a stunning highlight of an anniversary celebration.
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The Men Dancers: From the Horse’s Mouth
Jacob's Pillow July 11 through 15
By: - Jul 11th, 2012The Men Dancers: From the Horse’s Mouth showcases today’s most exceptional male dancers, choreographers, directors and scholars, as they pay homage to the Pillow’s pioneering founder Ted Shawn and his company of Men Dancers in this exclusive program, to be seen only at the Pillow.
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Gallic Gala at Saratoga Performing Arts Center
An Evenng at the Moulin Rouge on Bastille Day
By: - Jul 10th, 2012The Belle Époque era comes to life on Saturday, July 14 at Saratoga Performing Arts Center’s Annual Ballet Gala, “An Evening at the Moulin Rouge.†The popular summer fundraiser, which coincides with “Bastille Day,†will recreate the atmosphere of a Parisian lounge circa 1900, with a champagne and La Fée Absinthe reception, a strolling accordion player, exquisite French cuisine and guests dressed in period attire.
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Morphoses in Within (Labyrinth Within)
World Premiere at Jacob’s Pillow
By: - Jun 30th, 2012The world premiere of Within (Labyrinth Within) by the Swedish choreographer and dancer Pontus Lidberg at Jacob’s Pillow is a daunting and haunting confluence of live dance combined with a projected film behind the performers that at times echoes what’s on stage. In the final sequence the film stands alone completing a complex narrative of estranged marriage, passion, and jealousy.
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Jacob's Pillow Dance 2012
Full Schedule June 16 through August 26
By: - Jun 07th, 2012Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival kicks off June 16 with the 80th Anniversary Gala, followed by “a veritable dance explosion†(Claudia La Rocco of The New York Times) of more than 300 free and ticketed performances, talks, exhibits, classes, and events spanning three months.
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Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Opens SPAC Season
Master Class and “Arts Alfresco†Celebration of Art, Wine & Food
By: - May 25th, 2012Modern dance masterpieces by choreographer Bill T. Jones, one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the world of modern dance and the artistic creator of Broadway hits Spring Awakening and Fela!, will come to SPAC’s Amphitheatre Stage on Thursday, June 7 @ 8 p.m.
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Jacob's Pillow Tickets Now on Sale
Highlights of 80th Anniversary Festival
By: - Apr 27th, 2012The 80th Anniversary Season includes an impressive blend of world premieres, U.S. premieres, live music, company debuts, legendary dance companies, emerging choreographers, and more than 300 ticketed and free events, talks, performances, classes, exhibits, and tours hosted at the Pillow’s 163-acre National Historic Landmark site.
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Chunky Moves Mass MoCA
Connected with Strings Attached
By: - Mar 25th, 2012At 45 the Australian choreographer, Gideon Obarzanek, is leaving Chunky Move the dance company he founded to assume a position as associate artist with the Sydney Theatre Company. He is currently touring with his final work for the company, Connected, which was performed at Mass MoCA in partnership with Jacob's Pillow.
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Delfos Danza Contemporánea Pasajes Luminosos
Expressionistic Dance at Emile Bustani Theatre in The Lebanon
By: - Mar 07th, 2012The ubiquitous world of art, dance and music is exceptional in its ability to create connections between continents and cities: Paris, London, the Berkshires or Beirut. Having previously appeared at Mass MoCA, the Mazatlan, Mexico-based Dance Company Delfos Danza Contemporánea is making its debut at the 2012 Al-Bustan Festival in The Lebanon with a kaleidoscopic program titled “Luminous Passages†Pasajes luminosos. The program primarily explores the ‘why’ of the universal themes. One senses that the group exploits dance as playgrounds and catharsis for human relationships as well as instincts.
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Ella Baff On Choreographer Pina Bausch
Remarks Followed Biff Screening of Wim Wenders Film
By: - Feb 03rd, 2012During the benefit screening of the Wim Wenders film Ella Baff, the artistic director of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, shared memories of the renowned German choreographer Pina Bausch. It seems she performed just once at Pillow in 1968 in a program created by Ted Shawn.
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Chunky Move at Mass MoCA March 24 & 25
Co Sponsored with Jacob's Pillow
By: - Jan 13th, 2012Jacob’s Pillow Dance and MASS MoCA will co-present leading Australian contemporary dance company Chunky Move in Connected. Based in Melbourne, the company brings “blasts of choreographic excitement†(Jack Anderson, New York Times) to its performances.
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Darrah Carr Dance Jan 21 at Mass MoCA
Combines Traditional and Contemporary Irish Steps
By: - Dec 24th, 2011Darrah Carr Dance will present two separate repertories-ModERIN and Irish Extravaganza. Both will feature Irish duets and fusion works, with the Irish Extravaganza also concentrating on traditional group dances. The program will also feature live music on the accordion and spoons
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Jacobs Pillow Announces 2012 Season
Highlights of 80th Year of World Class Dance
By: - Dec 19th, 2011January 2012 will kick off the momentous 80th Anniversary of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, a National Historic Landmark, National Medal of Arts honoree, and America’s longest-running international dance festival. Founded in 1933 by modern dance pioneer Ted Shawn as a retreat for his company of Men Dancers, Jacob’s Pillow has been a mecca of dance for eight decades.
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Kozlova's Nutcracker at Symphony Space
Founder of Boston's International Ballet Competition Dazzles
By: - Dec 05th, 2011The Nutcracker has become the messenger for classical music in a world dominated by Katy Perry, Justin Bieber and the Kardashians. Audiences young and old love it.
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Aerial Dance Festival at New York's Manhattan Movement Center
Swinging from Ropes, Trapezes and Fabric
By: - Dec 03rd, 2011In extending the movements of dance to the aerial apparatus of the circus, modern dancers add immeasurably to the pleasure of performance. Fly by Night's festival was thrilling.
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Above and Beyond Dance's Chriselle Tidrick
Manhattan Movement and Arts Center
By: - Oct 15th, 2011Joining the ideas of the circus arts with dance opens up the eyes to unimagined images of moving beauty. Tidrick is a determined and brilliant choreographer and performer who deserves a wide audience.
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Mark Morris at Jacob’s Pillow
Company Celebrates 30th Anniversary
By: - Aug 26th, 2011Jacob's Pillow is a national treasure bringing world class dance to the Berkshires. Over the course of the season we have enjoyed the distinct and unique differences between companies. Arguably, from the audience's point of view, Pillow saved the best for last closing the season in the Ted Shawn Theatre with a 30th anniversary performance of Mark Morris Dance Group. They have become a franchise for Tanglewood so we were treated to having the company open and close the season of dance in the Berkshires.
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Cisne Negro Dance Company at the Joyce Theater
On Tour from Brazil
By: - Aug 22nd, 2011Cisne Negro Dance Company is one of South America's leading dance organizations. It was easy to see why on stage at New York's Joyce Theatre. Rooted in classical ballet forms, the dancers’ moves range from classic positions to poses and gestures only a superb athlete could achieve. In familiar moves members of the company take off in unexpected and delightful tangents.
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Aspen Santa Fe Ballet at Jacob’s Pillow
Diverse Program by Renowned Regional Company
By: - Aug 20th, 2011The Aspen Santa Fe Ballet is regarded as among the nation's leading regional dace companies. It is know for superb dancers and works by leading global choreographers. The three works we experienced before a packed audience at Jacob's Pillow could not have been more diverse. But it also indicates a company without an identifiable signature style.
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Trisha Brown at Jacob’s Pillow
Company Celebrates 40 Years
By: - Aug 14th, 2011During a 40th anniversary of the Trisha Brown Dance Company at Jacob’s Pillow we were provided with a selection of works spanning from 1973 through the present. During the 1960s Brown was a part of the experimental Judson Dance Theatre which was a matrix for multi media work that drew together leading New York choreographers, dancers, visual artists, composers and musicians.
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3e Étage at Jacob’s Pillow
Soloists and Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet
By: - Aug 06th, 2011There were eight U.S. premieres in the rare Jacob's Pillow appearance of 3e Étage: Soloists and Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet. The phenomenal program combined the most demanding and precise classical ballet with goofy comedic segments of mime. It kept the audience guessing until it burst into a standing ovation that seemed to go on forever. It was a stunning and galvanic evening of dance.
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Trisha Brown at Jacob's Pillow August 10-14
40th Anniversary of the Landmark Dance Company
By: - Aug 04th, 2011Trisha Brown’s pioneering dance style is a celebrated cornerstone of modern dance. August 10-14, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival salutes the 40th anniversary of the Trisha Brown Dance Company with a commemorative program of works highlighting Brown’s inventive choreographic range.
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Supernatural Wife at Jacob's Pillow
U.S. Premire by Big Dance Theatre
By: - Aug 01st, 2011Although The Supernatural Wife, based on the Greek tragedy Alkestis by Euripides, was given its U.S. premiere, by Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the multi media Big Dance Theatre has stretched to the snapping point our definition of dance.
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Lar Lubovitch at Jacob’s Pillow
An Exceptionally Fluid Company
By: - Jul 24th, 2011It has been 49 years since Lar Lubovitch formed his company in 1968. In performances at Jacob's Pillow we were provided with an overview from the first Philip Glass music to be set to music North Star, from 1978, to a piece from the past year based on the modal jazz classic My Favorite Things by the John Coltrane Quartet. It was a sensual and evocative evening of modernist classicism. The company often evoked visual beauty, harmony, and an exuding joy of creative dance.
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