Dance
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A Crossing: A Dance Musical
Barrington Stage Presents Powerful New Work for All of America
By: - Oct 02nd, 2021While focused on a group of migrants this is the story of all of us. It conveys an America rooted in exclusion, violence and intolerance. This is a stunning new musical for all Americans.
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Jacob's Pillow 2022
Newly Renovated Ted Shawn Theater
By: - Feb 02nd, 2022Festival 2022, which will feature 10 weeks of on-site programming, opens June 22, and runs through August 28, attracting dance audiences from across the globe to the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts. The season-opening Gala will be held on June 18. The recipient of the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award and the gala program will be announced on March 15.
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Tanzplattform, HAU, Berlin, Germany
Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) hosts dance again
By: - Mar 22nd, 2022Berlin is dancing again, despite the rumblings of war from the Ukraine. Despite this horrible situation Germany tries to keep going. Against all odds, the Tanzplattform Deutschland returned in 2022.
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Jacob’s Pillow’s 90th Season
Chill in Renovated Ted Shawn Theatre
By: - Jun 18th, 2022Attending a performance in the Ted Shawn Theatre, a renovated barn, at renowned Jacob's Pillow could be a sweltering experience. Having been closed in 2019 it reopens for the 90th season of 2022 with a $9 million upgrade. That features a new cooling and air ventilation system, orchestra pit, expanded accessibility for artists and audience members, an increased stage depth by 10 feet and enhanced technology.
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Jacob’s Pillow Alumnus Jonah Bokaer
Dance at Clark Art Instutute
By: - Jul 08th, 2022On Saturday, July 23 at 3 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts a performance by acclaimed Jacob’s Pillow alumnus Jonah Bokaer. The choreographer and visual artist performs a solo choreography inspired by Auguste Rodin’s sculpture, Fallen Angel.
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Julis Bullock Expands Harawi in Aix
Choreographed Drama by Zack Winokur
By: - Jul 22nd, 2022Julia Bullock has made a big opera career outside conventional wisdom. At the Aix Festival in Provence this year she sang Olivier Messiaen's Harawi, a challenging work to which she brings unusual insights.
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Dance in August, Berlin
34th International Dance Festival
By: - Aug 29th, 2022The 34th edition of the International Dance Festival in Berlin has drawn to a close. From August 5th-27th, 2022, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) showcased in 10 locations throughout Berlin and with 21 productions what is good, new, and exciting in contemporary dance worldwide.
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Dance Theatre of Harlem: Sounds of Hazel
Works & Process at the Guggenheim
By: - Sep 28th, 2022Sounds of Hazel, choreographer Tiffany Rea-Fisher’s is a new ballet inspired by the life of virtuoso classical and jazz pianist, singer, and civil rights activist Hazel Scott.
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Rachel Linsky Debuts Dance Hidden
Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Black Box Theater
By: - Sep 29th, 2022Boston-based contemporary dance artist Rachel Linsky debuts “Hidden,” the latest in her ongoing choreographic series ZACHOR that seeks to preserve stories of WWII Holocaust survivors through dance. “Hidden” is inspired by the story of Holocaust survivor Aaron Elster who at 10 years old was hidden from the Nazis in a Polish family’s attic for two years.
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Opera Philadelphia Expands Poe's Raven
Toshio Hosokawa's Monologue with Dance
By: - Sep 29th, 2022Opera Philadelphia and the Obvious Agency present a choreographed Raven, based on Toshio Hosokawa's Monologue. The audience is transported by the fantastic music and dance.
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Shamel Pitts | TRIBE: Touch of RED
MoCA World Premiere Co-presented with Jacob's Pillow
By: - Oct 04th, 2022Groundbreaking choreographer Shamel Pitts doesn’t dance around big issues—instead, he dances into them.
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'62 Center at Williams College
Theatre and Dance
By: - Nov 02nd, 2022Upcoming at the Williams College '62 Center are theater and dance performances. THEATRE: A LOVE STORY By Caridad Svichm directed by Emmanuelle Delpech and Pachedu (F)ALL Ensembles.
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Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival 2023
Mark Morris Launches Season
By: - Feb 15th, 2023Running June 28 through August 27, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2023 will feature nine weeks of performances in the Ted Shawn Theatre and on the outdoor Henry J. Leir Stage, as well as special events, parties, and pop up performances in Berkshire County. This season will offer the largest breadth of international performers since 2019, as well as multiple performances with live music, and dance styles ranging from hip hop and street dance to ballet and contemporary.
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Flamenco at Williams
Noche Flamenca at '62 Center
By: - Mar 29th, 2023Noche Flamenca creates a diverse theatrical body of performance through song, music, and dance that expresses a rigorous, spell-binding aesthetic in the form of flamenco; one that exceeds the highest artistic expectations.
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Art Bath's De Gustation
Making Multi Media Art for the Masses
By: - May 15th, 2023Elizabeth Yilmaz and Mara Driscoll, two dancers from the Metropolitan Opera troupe, have created a performance series that’s as wonderful as it is unique. The final performance of the spring season, and the 9th produced by this team with associate Cesar Abreu, was in the spirit of a happening.
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Mark Morris Launches Pillow Season
The Look of Love to Music of Burt Bacharach
By: - May 31st, 2023A longtime Pillow favorite, Mark Morris Dance Group will bring audiences The Look of Love, an homage to the music of the late Burt Bacharach, which had its world premiere in 2022 and which Fjord Review called “a breath of fresh, brilliant, joyous—and much needed—air.” A towering figure of popular music, Bacharach is known for his soaring melodies and unique orchestrations influenced by jazz, rock, and Brazilian music.
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Ojai Festival on Historic Journey
Rhiannon Giddens Programs All Music
By: - Jun 22nd, 2023At the 2023 Ojai music festival, Rhiannon Giddens, musical director, and a supremely talented group of musicians, presented a program that challenged the audience to take a musical journey with them around the world.
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Dance in Albany 2023-2024
The Egg and the University at Albany
By: - Jun 29th, 2023For the eighth year, the performing arts centers at The Egg and the University at Albany have announced that they will present Dance in Albany, a joint dance series featuring eight offerings for the 2023-24 season. Six of the performances will take place at The Egg at the Empire State Plaza with the remaining two at the UAlbany Performing Arts Center on the uptown University at Albany campus.
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Mark Morris at Jacob's Pillow
Bacharach/ David The Look of Love
By: - Jul 11th, 2023Jacob's Pillow launched its season with the Mark Morris Dance Group performing an hour long work Bacharach/ David's The Look of Love. During this soggy summer how apt that Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.
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Week Seven at Jacob's Pillow
Complexions Contemporary Ballet
By: - Jul 12th, 2023For nearly three decades, Complexions Contemporary Ballet has thrilled audiences around the globe with its full-throttle, high-intensity performances on five continents and in over 20 countries, committed to its mission of “bringing unity to the world one dance at a time.” The diverse and inclusive company is made up of dancers “who blur lines and boundaries and exude an innate passion” (The Guardian). With their programs set to music from Kendrick Lamar, David Bowie, Metallica, and Lenny Kravitz, the company reinvents ballet with a mix of methods, styles, and cultures that engages and delights.
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Dutch National Ballet
World Class Company at Jacob's Pillow
By: - Jul 18th, 2023The Dutch National Ballet’s first visit to Jacob’s Pillow offered a deep immersion in classical ballet, past and present. On every level it belongs to the top tier of dance in the Berkshires.
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Jacob's Pillow Week Eight
Martha Graham Dance Company
By: - Jul 19th, 2023Jacob's Pillow is pleased to announce programming for the eighth week of the 2023 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, when the world-renowned Martha Graham Dance Company will perform Graham’s Cave of the Heart and Errand Into the Maze, and Hofesh Shechter’s CAVE, in the Ted Shawn Theatre from Aug. 16-20.
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Is it Thursday Yet at La Jolla Playhouse
Jenn Freeman and Sonya Tayeh Join Forces in Dance and Drama
By: - Aug 01st, 2023"Is it Thursday Yet", playing at the La Jolla Playhouse, tells the story of dancer Jenn Freeman, who was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) when she was 33 years old. Using actual recordings of her therapy sessions and home videos Jenn’s father recorded as she grew up, the play is essentially a documentary of Jenn Freeman’s life from infancy to young adulthood. Neither Jenn nor her family knew she had ASD.
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Eric Gauthier at Jacob's Pillow
Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart.
By: - Aug 01st, 2023Now 47, the French Canadian dancer, artistic director, and choreographer Eric Gauthier joined Stuttgart Ballet in 1996, where he rose to the rank of soloist. Initially with six dancers, in 2007 he founded Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart.
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Hip Hop Across The Pillow at Jacobs Pillow
A Festival inside the 2023 Summer Dance Festival
By: - Aug 07th, 2023Hip Hop Across The Pillow was curated by Melanie George and Ali Rosa-Salas. We were fortunate enough to catch the very last totally engrossing performance yesterday.
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