Dance
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Ella Baff of Jacob's Pillow Two
Receiving the National Medal of Arts
By: - Apr 04th, 2011Ella Baff, the artistic director of Jacob's Pillow, described meeting the President and First Lady during an award ceremony at the White House as a "peak experience." She discussed travel to Cuba where she covered 30 companies in five days. This summer Mark Morris and his company will open the season for Tanglewood and close it for The Pillow.
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Ella Baff of Jacobs's Pillow
Part One of a Dialogue
By: - Apr 03rd, 2011Recently Ella Baff was invited to the White House to receive the National Medal of Arts on behalf of the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. We discussed her early years in music and dance and how that later shaped her global vision for its world renowned programming. As a part of its mandate there are an average of 200 free events in a dense three month Berkshire program on three stages.
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Los Muñequitos de Matanzas
Mass MoCA and Jacob's Pillow Celebrate Rumba
By: - Apr 02nd, 2011This spring, Jacob’s Pillow Dance and MASS MoCA come together once again to present acclaimed Afro-Cuban folkloric music and dance group Los Muñequitos de Matanzas. The rumba celebration will occur at Mass MoCA April 30 and May 1.
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Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
2011 Dance, Music and Film
By: - Jan 13th, 2011The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) presents ambitious performing arts programming for Winter/Spring 2011, including world-premiere dance, revolutionary theater and a vaudevillian spectacular. The New Music Now series returns with three exciting concerts of adventurous music, and the ICA presents its first "live documentary," narrated by filmmaker Sam Green alongside live performances by sound artist David Cerf and band The Quavers (featuring special guest Brendan Canty of Fugazi).
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Jacobs Pillow 2011 Season
Mark Morris to Appear
By: - Jan 11th, 2011Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival will present more than 160 ticketed and free dance performances by companies from Argentina, Cuba, Canada, France, Germany, Norway, South Korea, Switzerland, and across the United States. Executive Director Ella Baff has crafted an international festival of dance, music, and the visual arts spanning three months and including six world premieres, seven U.S. premieres, five engagements with live music, three U.S. company debuts, and more than 300 total ticketed and free events, talks, performances, classes, and tours.
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Mass MoCA Given $3 Million in Memory of Irene Hunter
Completing $36.4 Million Permanence Campaign
By: - Dec 16th, 2010MASS MoCA announces a major $3 million gift from the estate of Irene Hunter. This gift also leverages an anonymous $1 million challenge grant and the resulting $4 million total marks the completion of MASS MoCA's Permanence campaign which raised over $36.4 million since its launch in 2007. The Permanence Campaign had three goals: To create an endowment to provide financial stability for MASS MoCA's future and to build and endow a "museum within a museum" dedicated to Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawing Retrospective, and to support operations during the campaign period.
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Dzul Dance Performs Danzon Nov. 6
Chelsea Morrison Theater, Milllbrook, N.Y.
By: - Oct 27th, 2010Dzul Dance will present a new work Danzon to launch their new season. The performance will take place at Chelsea Morrison Theater (at Millbrook School), School Road, Millbrook, New York, 12545 on Saturday, November 6 at 8:00 PM,
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Jacob's Pillow On Line
Offering Curated Selection of PillowTalks
By: - Oct 15th, 2010Jacob’s Pillow Dance, international arts presenter and home of America’s longest-running dance festival, now offers a curated online selection of informative and entertaining PillowTalks. Based in Becket, Mass., Jacob’s Pillow hosts more than 160 free pre-show talks, post-show interviews, and hour-long PillowTalks during its annual Festival. PillowTalks are a series of hour-long moderated discussions with choreographers, performers, historians, filmmakers, and experts in the arts and related fields.
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Full Moon Fever at Brooklyn Academy of Music
Pina Bausch Strikes Gold Again
By: - Oct 04th, 2010Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch prove again why they're one of the best dance groups in the world.
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New York City Ballet
At 62 Center Williamstown Oct. 15
By: - Sep 26th, 2010The ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance presents principal dancers from the New York City Ballet in a special performance of George Balanchine’s Davidsbündlertänze. As in the original production, the work is performed with a solo pianist. The evening includes a discussion of Schumann’s music by Marjorie Hirsch, Professor of Music.
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Hubbard Street Dance Chicago at Jacob's Pillow
A Pleasant but Not Earth Shattering Performance
By: - Aug 30th, 2010Nice, but not exactly ground breaking. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago wants you to love them. They’re not one of those experimental, way out there dance companies that doesn’t care what the public thinks about its performances. They’re like the nice girl in high school, who says thank you and always smiles whenever you say something.
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Gotberg Ballet at Jacob's Pillow
Bolero x 3 = Brilliant
By: - Aug 23rd, 2010The Goteborg Ballet proved why they are the largest contemporary dance company in Nordic countries
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CND2 Good but Not Great at Jacob's Pillow
Nacho Duato Might Have Left the Program in Its Original Order.
By: - Jul 31st, 2010The program had all the ingredients for a memorable night of dance, but CND2 artistic director Nacho Duato outsmarted himself and mixed them all up.
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Bill T. Jones at Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Fondly Do We Hope…Fervently Do We Pray
By: - Jul 20th, 2010Bill T. Jones, who recently won a Tony Award for Best Choreography for his current Broadway hit Fela!, will offer insights on the concept and development of Fondly when he visits Saratoga Springs on Friday, July 23. Jones will present a Personal Talk at 6:30 p.m. at the National Museum of Dance. The Talk is free for ticketholders to the July 28 performance of Fondly; cost for the general public is $5.
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Pichet Klunchun Dance Company Unmasked
U.S. Premiere of Chui Chai at Jacob’s Pillow
By: - Jul 16th, 2010As a part of its commitment to world dance Jacob’s Pillow presents the U.S. premiere of Chui Chai by Thailand’s Pichet Klunchun Dance Company this week. Performances continue through Sunday, July 18. The hour long performance of a single work started in the slowly stylized manner of traditional Thai dance. It offered a highlight of the Nang Loi (Floating Lady) episode from the Ramayan epic.
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Armitage Gone! Dance at Jacob’s Pillow
Scientifically Astounds Audience
By: - Jul 15th, 2010Choreographer Karole Armitage has created a masterpiece of modern dance with "Three Theories," the evening-length work her group is performing this week at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Becket. She set out to create a dance based on theoretical physics, according to the program. But you don’t need to know anything about string theory or Einstein’s theory of relatively to be mesmerized by Armitage’s amazing creation.
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Where's the Coffee, Mrs. Margaret?
Barak Marshall Tests the Audiences' Patience at Jacob's Pillow
By: - Jul 09th, 2010“Monger†clocked in at just over an hour Thursday night at Jacob’s Pillow, but it felt more like four or five. All I kept thinking was, I hope this thing’s over soon so I can find out what NBA team LeBron James will be playing for next season. I was out in time to hear ‘the decision.’ His final answer? Miami.
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Pichet Klunchun at Jacob's Pillow
Chui Chai (Transformation) July 14 to 18
By: - Jul 08th, 2010A U.S. premiere from Thailand arrives at Jacob’s Pillow July 14-18 in the Doris Duke Theatre. In the full-length work Chui Chai (Transformation), internationally acclaimed performer and choreographer Pichet Klunchun entwines khon, a form of traditional Thai masked dance drama, with contemporary movement. Intricate costumes and masks and music by Sinnapa Sarasas create a world of ancient beauty and drama that Klunchun juxtaposes with elements of modernity
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New York City Ballet
Saratoga Performing Arts Center July 6 to 17
By: - Jul 01st, 2010The 2010 Season of New York City Ballet at Saratoga Performing Arts Center opens on Tuesday, July 6 and extends through July 17. The season will feature 16 stunning ballets including three opening week performances of Balanchine’s beloved story ballet A Midsummer's Night Dream.. The classic work, based on Shakespeare’s famous play, features elaborate sets and costumes and a cast of over 100 dancers including more than 20 children from the Capital Region.
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Mark Morris Dance Group at Tanglewood
Morris Serves World Class Dance
By: - Jun 28th, 2010The Mark Morris Dance Group performed Sunday at Tanglewood. They will perform there again tonight (Monday) at 8 p.m. at Ozawa Hall. Mark Morris has terrific taste in music. What does this have to do with his choreography? Everything. Morris is like a world-class chef.
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Nina Ananiashvili Serves Up Seven-Course Ballet Feast at Jacob's Pillow
The State Ballet of Georgia
By: - Jun 25th, 2010The ballet company's delightful performance features seven distinctly different dances. For those who think the ballet company revolves around Ananiashvili, think again.
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Pilobolus Has a Ball
Annual Event July 10
By: - Jun 22nd, 2010In Litchfield County,Connecticut on Saturday, July 10, at Quatre Vents in Washington, Pilobolus will have a ball.. Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter has donated two invitations to the 2011 Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Pilobolus artistic collaborators Art Spiegelman and Dan Zanes will attend the gala. They will be sowing the seeds of the company’s 40th anniversary. The title for the anniversary season is Pilobolus at 40: Collaborating on the Future.
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Jacob's Pillow Gala June 19
Bill T. Jones to be Honored
By: - Jun 07th, 2010Jacob’s Pillow kicks off Festival 2010 on June 19 with the Season Opening Gala, the world-renowned dance organization’s biggest annual fundraising event. Following an exclusive Gala performance in the Ted Shawn Theatre and the presentation of the prestigious Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award to choreographer and director Bill T. Jones, guests are treated to dinner and dancing to live music. This evening is widely celebrated as a signature summer event in the Berkshires and attracts a multitude of dance lovers, celebrities, government dignitaries, and visitors from around the world every year.
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Lady of the Camellias Through June 7
American Ballet Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York City
By: - Jun 02nd, 2010In “The Lady of the Camellias,†a superb, relatively- unknown ballet brought to life by American Ballet Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York, the ballet’s protagonist, Armand Duval, spends his whole life longing for Marguerite Gautier, a woman who enthralls him, even though she often acts like he doesn’t even exist.
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American Ballet Theater's Lady of the Camellias
Premiere of John Neumeier's Choreography
By: - May 28th, 2010It's taken thirty years for the Neumeier Lady of the Camellias to arrive at the ABT, but it was worth the wait. In Neumeier's telling, we are transported by a timeless story into the emotional present by the compelling performances of Julie Kent, Roberto Bolle, Gillian Murphy and David Hallberg. Never has the sad story of a dying courtesan seemed so present. Gesture by gesture, step by step, lift by lift, we are transported to now.
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