Dance
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Lar Lubovitch at Jacob's Pillow
Company Performs July 20 to 24
By: - Jul 15th, 2011Lar Lubovich Dance Compay, which was founded in 1968, appears at Jacob's Pillow from July 20 to 24. The Pillow program includes North Star, a revival from 1978 set to music by Philip Glass, a duet from Meadow (1999), The Legend of Ten (2010), and Coltrane’s Favorite Things (2010), danced to John Coltrane’s version of the classic song “My Favorite Things†from the musical The Sound of Music.
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Tanqueros del Sur at Jacob’s Pillow
Tango from Historic to Contemporary
By: - Jul 11th, 2011Natalia Hills, the artistic director, choreographer and lead dancer of Tanqueros del Sur brought "Romper el Piso (Break the Floor" her company of six musicians and ten dancers to Jacob’s Pillow in a scorching and often sensual, no make that erotic, presentation of the music and dance of the gauchos of Argentina.
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Mark Morris and Yo-Yo Ma at Tanglewood
Stravinsky’s Renard a Morris World Premiere
By: - Jun 29th, 2011Last night in Ozawa Hall, the Mark Morris Dance Group, presented a delightful and intriguing program with two works set to Igor Stravinsky and two to music by Johann Sebastian Bach. The annual visit to Tanglewood included a world premiere set to Stravinsky’s Renard.
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Afro-Cuban Music and Dance Rumbles Mass MoCA
Los Muñequitos de Matanzas
By: - May 01st, 2011The Hunter Center at Mass MoCA was packed for another of the ongoing collaborations with Jacob’s Pillow featuring the Cuban folkloric music and dance group Los Muñequitos de Matanzas. If it takes a village a Northern Berkshires audience bonded with the traditions of rural Cuba that span centuries reaching back beyond slavery to origins in Africa.
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Catherine Gallant Revives Isadora Duncan
Modern Dance from the Beginning to Now
By: - Apr 25th, 2011Catherine Gallant is committed to preserving the work of Isadora Duncan, but she also presents cutting edge modern dance with a delightful touch. In a riveting program Gallant she introduced the music of young composer, Lisa Bielawa, a recent recipient of the Rome Prize.
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Ella Baff Recalls Cunningham and Cage
Gala to Feature Philip Glass and Benjamin Millepied
By: - Apr 12th, 2011In the third and final installment of an interview with Ella Baff, the artistic director of Jacob's Pillow, she discusses plans for the season opening Gala on June 18. Benjamin Millepied, who is the life and artistic partner of Natalie Portman, is the co chair of the event. Philip Glass will give a rare solo performance. Baff recalls with emotion Merce Cunningham who was unable to attend to receive a reward from Pillow. We also discussed his collaborator John Cage.
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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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