Dance
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Complexions Contemporary Ballet, at Jacob’s Pillow
A Most Powerful Ballet Company
By: - Aug 15th, 2023Perhaps, it’s not accidental that 'Complexions' followed the 'Hip Hop Festival.'The performance started with an excerpt of 'Hissy Fits, 2006,' to ongoing very loud percussion, sounding like drum beats to, as per program, J.S. Bach music. And the music mostly continued at a high decimal, just like hip hop.
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Jacob's Pillow On Site Residencies
Year Round Programming
By: - Aug 22nd, 2023Jacob’s Pillow today announced the artists who will participate in 10 onsite residencies this fall through next summer, as part of the Pillow Lab residency program. Artists participating in this series, in chronological order, are: Ilya Vidrin, Sekou McMiller, LaJuné McMillian, Minty Fresh Circus, Aakash Odedra, Kyle Marshall Choreography, CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater, Hari Krishnan/inDANCE, Theresa Ruth Howard, and Miguel Gutierrez.
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Martha Graham Dance Company at Jacob’s Pillow
The Oldest American Dance Group
By: - Aug 22nd, 2023The venerable and totally contemporary Martha Graham Dance Company was in residence from August 16 to August 20 at Jacob's Pillow. The dancers gave memorable and also frenzied performances.....
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Compagnie Käfig at Jacob’s Pillow
Final Company in Residence, 2023 Season
By: - Aug 29th, 2023For PIXEL, by Compagnie Käfig, today based near Lyon, France, ten male Hip Hop dancers, French style, a woman contortionist, a roller-skater, small robots carrying tiny lights, and a huge metal hoop shared and interacted on stage with highly sophisticated projections, music, and sounds.
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Tanz im August in Berlin
With 19 World-Wide Dance Companies
By: - Sep 02nd, 2023Tanz im Augus is the Berlin showcase for contemporary international dance. Organized, as usually, by the theater Hebbel am Ufer (HAU).
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Ballet Hispánico
Launches Tour in Connecticut
By: - Sep 05th, 2023Ballet Hispánico, the nation’s largest Latinx cultural organization and one of America’s Cultural Treasures, announces a 2023-24 Season tour stop at Garde Arts Center on Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8pm.
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Hungarian National Ballet Performs Don Quixote
Gorgeous Production. Gorgeous Opera House
By: - Oct 05th, 2023The Hungarian National Ballet’s production of Don Quixote at The Budapest Opera House was a joyful presentation. The energy and mirth emanating from the stage was infectious and intoxicating: I was practically jumping out of my seat with excitement by the end of the Act III pas de deux as Kitri, danced by Tatyjana Melnyik, balanced on pointe for what seemed an eternity.
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U.K. Royal Ballet at Jacob's Pillow
To Highlight 2024 Season
By: - Nov 18th, 2023The Royal Ballet of the United Kingdom, will appear at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival for the first time, as the company’s sole stop in the United States in 2024. To celebrate this milestone, Jacob’s Pillow will for the first time feature daily back-to-back performances from one company in multiple venues, with one program on the outdoor Henry J. Leir Stage, and another distinct program in the historic indoor Ted Shawn Theatre.
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Unsilent Night by Phil Kline
North Adams and New York are Both Treated to His Special Holiday Event
By: - Dec 04th, 2023Phil Kline created a magical holiday event thirty years ago. This year, Unsilent Night in North Adams, MA was presented by MCLA Gallery 51/MOSAIC, nbCC, North Adams Chamber, Anna Farrington, Andrew Fitch, Isabelle Holmes & Todd Reynolds In collaboration with LumiNAMA Holiday Lights Walk.
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Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2024
92nd Season Runs Nine Weeks
By: - Feb 20th, 2024The nine companies to perform for one week each in the Ted Shawn Theatre are, in chronological order: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, The Royal Ballet of the United Kingdom, Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, Social Tango Project, MOMIX, Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Parsons Dance, Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca, and Dance Theatre of Harlem.
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Jacob's Pillow Schedule
Dance in the Berkshires
By: - Apr 11th, 2024Jacob’s Pillow announces that tickets are now on sale to the general public for the full schedule of programming at this summer’s Dance Festival, which will offer nine weeks of performances by world-class artists, live music, and free and paid family-friendly events, on indoor and outdoor stages. In addition to featuring local and regional artists, the festival will include dance companies traveling from across the United States, Canada, England, Switzerland, Italy, Argentina, Spain, and beyond.
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Pillow Talk
Festival Launches June 24
By: - Jun 23rd, 2024Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival will bring the acclaimed Social Tango Project—an innovative dance company founded and based in Buenos Aires, Argentina— for an immersive week-long engagement during Week 4 of the Festival. Offering audiences a deep dive into the art of tango, Social Tango Project will showcase this social dance like never before in the historic Ted Shawn Theatre from Wednesday, July 17 to Sunday, July 21.
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Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo: 50th Anniversary
Gender Bending at Jacob's Pillow
By: - Jul 01st, 2024Jacob's Pillow launched the 2024 season with serious fun. It's been ten years since the all male, gender bending Trocs have visited Pillow. Remarkably the renowned company is celebrating 50 years of artful parody. Raucous laughter and applause filled the Ted Shawn Theatre.
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Camille A. Brown at Jacob's PIllow
Received the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award in 2016,
By: - Jul 02nd, 2024“It is a thrill to welcome Camille A. Brown back to the Pillow, this time for the world premiere of I AM,” said Jacob’s Pillow Executive and Artistic Director Pamela Tatge. “Since she received the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award in 2016, she has seen a meteoric rise as a choreographer and director of opera and Broadway productions, from her stunning work on Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, to her Tony nominated work this year on the Alicia Keys musical Hell’s Kitchen.
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Royal Ballet at Jacob's Pillow
First Visit to the Berkshires
By: - Jul 08th, 2024Both the Royal Ballet and Jacob’s Pillow were formed in 1931. There have been many interactions but in the current season the renowned company has visited the Berkshires for the first time. It is their only North American stop. Some five years of planning, fund raising, and logistics were entailed for this historic event.
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Parsons Dance at Jacob's Pillow
Returns 25 Years Later
By: - Jul 12th, 2024Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival welcomes the internationally- touring modern dance company Parsons Dance back to the Ted Shawn Theatre, 25 years after their last engagement with the festival in 1999.
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Grand Théâtre de Genève at Jacob's Pillow
Improvising Plan B
By: - Jul 15th, 2024Grand Théâtre de Genève arrived for the scheduled third week of the Jacob’s Pillow season. Sets for Noetic, which was to have its North American premiere, however, did not. With just two days to adjust the company pursued Plan B,
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Flamenco at Jacob's Pillow
Week Eight August 14 Through 18
By: - Jul 19th, 2024Week 8 of this summer’s Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival will feature beloved New York-based flamenco artists Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca, who will perform at the Festival for the first time since 2002. Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca will appear for five days in the historic Ted Shawn Theatre, from Wednesday, August 14 through Sunday, August 18. The program is a showcase for the work of Martín Santangelo and Bessie-award winning dancer and choreographer Soledad Barrio, and will feature their newest work, Searching for Goya (2023).
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Dance Theatre of Harlem
To Return to Jacob's Pillow
By: - Jul 29th, 2024In their first appearance at Jacob’s Pillow since 2019, Dance Theatre of Harlem is celebrating their 55th Anniversary, as well as the 90th birthday of their legendary founder Arthur Mitchell (1934-2018).
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Roderick George with the Jacob’s Pillow Men Dancers Award
In Memory of Ted Shawn
By: - Aug 02nd, 2024Jacob’s Pillow presents American dancer and choreographer Roderick George with the Jacob’s Pillow Men Dancers Award. George will accept the award at the outdoor performance by his New York City-based company, kNonAme Artist.
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Camille A. Brown at Jacob's Pillow
World Premiere of I Am
By: - Aug 07th, 2024Superstar dancer, choreographer, and Tony nominated director, Camille A. Brown, has a long history with Jacob’s Pillow. Funded by the Hunter Foundation this past winter the company was in residence developing a major new work. It is based on themes from the “I Am” episode of the HBO series Lovecraft Country. Jacob's Pillow was honored to host the world premiere of a game changing work.
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Parsons Dance at Jacob’s Pillow
Ended Joyously with September by Earth Wind & Fire
By: - Aug 12th, 2024For its first appearance at Jacob's Pillow in 25 years the renowned Parsons Dance presented a diverse program of seven works. It included the legendary Caught as well as two new works. Parsons choreographed five works while the other two were by Jamar Roberts and Robert Battle. They brought all back home with music of Earth Wind & Fire.
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Jacob’s Pillow 2024 Season Ends
Dance Theatre of Harlem
By: - Aug 26th, 2024Yesterday we attended a performance of Dance Theatre of Harlem which concluded the nine week, 2024 Jacob’s Pillow Season. Yet again artistic director, Pamela Tatge, created a stunning festival of world renowned companies.
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Pillow Lab Residency Program
Ten Residencies Through Next Summer
By: - Aug 29th, 2024Jacob’s Pillow announces the artists selected to participate in 10 onsite residencies this fall through next summer, as part of the Pillow Lab residency program. Artists participating in this series, in chronological order, are: Hélène Simoneau Danse; Emily Coates, Ain Gordon, and Derek Lucci; Music from the Sole; Andy Blankenbuehler and Kate Quinn; Brinae Ali; dani tirell; Peter Rockford Espiritu and Roberta Uno; Joanna Kotze; The Choreodaemonic Collective; and Rosy Simas. Programming and dates are subject to change.
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Dance in August, Berlin, 2024
Tanz im August, International Festival
By: - Sep 02nd, 2024The 36th 'Tanz im August' took place from August 15th – 31st in Berlin. It is the most important European dance festival showcasing contemporary dance tendencies around the globe.
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