Dance
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Centenary of Martha Graham Company
The Sarasota Ballet
By: - Mar 01st, 2026Graham’s death in 1991 led to a protracted legal battle over her work that bankrupted the company and shuttered it for several years; Janet Eilber is credited with turning things around by showcasing masterpieces by Graham alongside newly commissioned works and providing an historical perspective to make them all more accessible.
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Tania Vergara Dance Theater
Cuban Company Reformed in Sarasota
By: - Apr 13th, 2026Sensory memories became the catalyst for the choreographer’s latest work for Tania Vergara Dance-Theater, the contemporary ballet company she founded in Cuba as Endedans Contemporary Ballet more than two decades ago and revived three years ago in Sarasota.
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Sarasota Ballet Returns to The Joyce
Company's Third Visit to New York City
By: - Jun 29th, 2026In a not particularly surprising reveal, The Sarasota Ballet has announced it will begin its 20th season under Director Iain Webb with a six-day, seven-performance run at The Joyce Theater in New York City prior to opening its home season in Sarasota in late October.
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Urban Bush Women at Jacob’s Pillow
SCAT!... The Complex Lives of Al & Dot, Dot & Al Zollar
By: - Jul 06th, 2026A mandate for the 2026 season of Jacob’s Pillow is to highlight the contributions of women. The week celebrating the 250th anniversary of America focused on Jowole Willo Jo Zollar who founded Urban Bush Women in 1984. The company has been a frequent visitor to the Berkshires and developed new work during a residency at MASS MoCA.
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Akram Khan Company at Jacob's Pillow
Thikra: A Night of Remembering
By: - Jul 13th, 2026Thikra: A Night of Remembering is the final work created by Akram Khan for his 25-year-old British based company. It will be on tour through March, 2027 when the company will disband.
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Cuban Born Dancer Harold Mendez
Career Ending Early
By: - Jul 13th, 2026It was never a given that Harold Mendez would succeed as a dancer. When he was chosen by the Cuban government to enter its state-run ballet training program at the age of 10, there was no guarantee he would ultimately develop the combination of physique, ability, discipline and ambition it takes to make it in a notoriously difficult and competitive art form.
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A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham: White Space
American Premiere at Jacob's Pillow.
By: - Jul 20th, 2026A.I.M by Kyle Abraham: White Space was partly developed during a winter residency at Jacob's Pillow. It premiered in Europe with rave reviews and sold out performances. The stunning work has now had its American premiere at Pillow.
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Circa Contemporary Circus: Wolf
Fourth Visit to Jacob's Pillow Since 2012
By: - Jul 27th, 2026Gone are the ringmaster, clowns and elephants. In 1999, in Brisbane, Australia Yaron Lifschitz founded Circa Contemporary Circus. The successful organization has three separate companies on constant tour,. For the fourth time since 2012 one visited Jacob's Pillow. They performed the U.S. premiere of "Wolf" with a company of five men and five women.
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DanceSport
The Competative Arm of Ballroom Dancing
By: - Jul 27th, 2026DanceSport, the competitive arm of ballroom dancing – a term adopted in the ‘80s by the by the International Council of Amateur Dancers (now known as the World DanceSport Federation) to distinguish competitive dancing from social or recreational dance – is big business in America.
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Gauthier Dance/ Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart
At Jacob's Pillow
By: - Aug 04th, 2026With this appearance at Jacob's Pillow the emphasis was on the company. Of 13 works presented just one was choreographed by Eric Gauthier.
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Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival 2018
Reflections on Performances
By: - Aug 28th, 2018There are a series of reviews written on BFA by Charles Giuliano this summer about the many magnificent dance companies who were in residence at Jacob's Pillow in 2018. Here are my memories of some of their performances as poetry.
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Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival 2018
Conflating Old and New in Becket
By: - Dec 13th, 2017International companies will travel to Becket, Massachusetts, from Denmark, Israel, Belgium, Australia, France, Spain, and Scotland. Notably, representation from across the United States ranges from New York City, Minneapolis, and Houston to Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Chicago, among others.
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Jacob's Pillow 2017
Schedule for 85th Season in Becket
By: - Dec 14th, 2016Following the critical acclaim and record-breaking attendance of Festival 2016, Jacob’s Pillow Dance announces its 85th Anniversary Season of exciting programming featuring world premieres, commissions, site-specific work, international artists, live music, and Pillow-exclusive engagements. Running June 21-August 27, Festival 2017 marks a notable moment in the history of the organization, with the first season programmed by Jacob’s Pillow Director Pamela Tatge who joined the organization in April of 2016.
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Flexn at Jacob's Pillow
The Arts and Black Lives Matter
By: - Aug 21st, 2016More than a dance company the appearance by Flexn, with its related panels and talk back, proved to be an aesthetic and political movment illustrating through inventive dance why Black Lives Matter.
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Dorrance Dance at Jacob’s Pillow
Tapping Into New Possibilities
By: - Aug 12th, 2016Based on last year's collaboration with Toshi Reagon's band Big Lovely yesterday's performance of Dorrance Dance was, for us, the most anticipated of the Jacob's Pillow season. Michelle Dorrance is celebrated for pushing the limits of the indigenous, vernacular art form of tap dancing. Collaborating with the musician and inventor Nicholas Van Young there seemed too much emphasis on sound at the sacrifice of dance.
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Compagnie Herve Koubi
Conflating Sufi and Bach at Jacob's Pillow
By: - Aug 05th, 2016At the end of the hour long piece Ce que le jour doit à la nuit (What the Day Owes the Night) choreographed by Herve Koubi the cycle of a single day finds closure in gradual darkening signifying night.
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Twist's Symphonie Fantastique at HERE
O'Riley's Liszt and Anniversaries Galore
By: - Apr 06th, 2018It's Berlioz. It's puppets. It's a supershow. The twentieth anniversary production of Basil Twist's remarkable Symphonie Fantastique is at the ever enterprising and surprising HERE in New York. Christopher O'Riley performs Liszt's piano transcription of Berlioz's love letter/nightmare. Twist performs his magic in an aquarium filled with 1,000 gallons of water.
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Pilobolus at Jacob’s Pillow
Taking Nature Back Inside
By: - Jun 29th, 2018Recalling seeing Pilobolus over the years one readily recognized its DNA but with the realization of how it has evolved and remained fresh. Just when you think that you know what Pilobolus is about, with a tool kit and vetted skill set, they do something different. You are challenged to revise and update assumptions as an audience or critic.
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Celebrating Jerome Robbins Centennial
Stars of American Ballet at Pillow
By: - Aug 27th, 2018It has been a summer of celebrating Centennials for Leonard Bernstein and his collaborator, Jerome Robbins. The Jacob's Pillow season ended with Stars of American Ballet. They offered a tribute of five Robbins dances curated by New York City Ballet principal Daniel Ulbricht.
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Leonard Bernstein’s Fancy Free
Boston Ballet and BSO Collaborate
By: - Aug 19th, 2018The summer long centenary celebration continued last night at Tanglewood with an All Bernstein Program conducted by Andris Nelsons. It featured Fancy Free a 1944 collaboration with choreographe Jerome Robbins for Fancy Free. That theme was expanded into their musical On the Town. The dance was performed in collaboration with Boston Ballet.
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Houston Ballet
Once in a Blue Moon Visit to Jacob's Pillow
By: - Aug 17th, 2018It's been 40 years since the renowned and well traveled Houston Ballet has visited Jacob's Pillow. The company if noted for its depth in superbly trained principal dancers. There are many individual stars in its firmament. On a hot and steamy night they presented four works, three by artistic director, Stanton Welch AM, one a world premiere, and another by perennial Pillow favorite Trey McIntyre.
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Mark Morris at Mostly Mozart
Dancing Against the Current
By: - Aug 15th, 2018Mostly Mozart presents the Mark Morris Dance Group, accompanied by three excellent chamber and vocal music performances.
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Limon Dance Company
Celebrating Its 70th Year at Jacob's Pillow.
By: - Aug 13th, 2018“A gesture, be it a leap, turn, run, fall, or walk, is only as beautiful, as powerful, as eloquent as its inner source. . . Purify, magnify, and make noble that source. You stand naked and revealed. Who are you? What are you? Who, what do you want to be? What is your spiritual caliber?” José Limón. This past week Jacob's Pillow celebrated the 70th anniversary of the company he founded.
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Hubbard Street Celebrates 40 Years
Diverse Program at Jacob’s Pillow
By: - Aug 03rd, 2018Hubbard Street Dance Chicago celebrated its 40th anniversary with yet another visit to Jacob's Pillow. At two and a half hours, with works by four choreographers, it was one of the longest, most diverse and best received programs of the Pillow season.
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Roland K. Brown/EVIDENCE
With Music of Arturo O'Farrill at Jacob's Pillow
By: - Jul 28th, 2018New Conversations (live music world premiere) choreography, Roland K. Brown with music by Arturo O’Farrill & Resist was developed during a residency of the Roland K. Brown/Evidence company at Jacob's Pillow. It was founded in 1985 and this was their first Pillow peformance in more than a decade.
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