Dance
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Ella Baff On Choreographer Pina Bausch
Remarks Followed Biff Screening of Wim Wenders Film
By: - Feb 03rd, 2012During the benefit screening of the Wim Wenders film Ella Baff, the artistic director of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, shared memories of the renowned German choreographer Pina Bausch. It seems she performed just once at Pillow in 1968 in a program created by Ted Shawn.
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Chunky Move at Mass MoCA March 24 & 25
Co Sponsored with Jacob's Pillow
By: - Jan 13th, 2012Jacob’s Pillow Dance and MASS MoCA will co-present leading Australian contemporary dance company Chunky Move in Connected. Based in Melbourne, the company brings “blasts of choreographic excitement†(Jack Anderson, New York Times) to its performances.
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Darrah Carr Dance Jan 21 at Mass MoCA
Combines Traditional and Contemporary Irish Steps
By: - Dec 24th, 2011Darrah Carr Dance will present two separate repertories-ModERIN and Irish Extravaganza. Both will feature Irish duets and fusion works, with the Irish Extravaganza also concentrating on traditional group dances. The program will also feature live music on the accordion and spoons
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Jacobs Pillow Announces 2012 Season
Highlights of 80th Year of World Class Dance
By: - Dec 19th, 2011January 2012 will kick off the momentous 80th Anniversary of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, a National Historic Landmark, National Medal of Arts honoree, and America’s longest-running international dance festival. Founded in 1933 by modern dance pioneer Ted Shawn as a retreat for his company of Men Dancers, Jacob’s Pillow has been a mecca of dance for eight decades.
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Kozlova's Nutcracker at Symphony Space
Founder of Boston's International Ballet Competition Dazzles
By: - Dec 05th, 2011The Nutcracker has become the messenger for classical music in a world dominated by Katy Perry, Justin Bieber and the Kardashians. Audiences young and old love it.
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Aerial Dance Festival at New York's Manhattan Movement Center
Swinging from Ropes, Trapezes and Fabric
By: - Dec 03rd, 2011In extending the movements of dance to the aerial apparatus of the circus, modern dancers add immeasurably to the pleasure of performance. Fly by Night's festival was thrilling.
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Above and Beyond Dance's Chriselle Tidrick
Manhattan Movement and Arts Center
By: - Oct 15th, 2011Joining the ideas of the circus arts with dance opens up the eyes to unimagined images of moving beauty. Tidrick is a determined and brilliant choreographer and performer who deserves a wide audience.
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Mark Morris at Jacob’s Pillow
Company Celebrates 30th Anniversary
By: - Aug 26th, 2011Jacob's Pillow is a national treasure bringing world class dance to the Berkshires. Over the course of the season we have enjoyed the distinct and unique differences between companies. Arguably, from the audience's point of view, Pillow saved the best for last closing the season in the Ted Shawn Theatre with a 30th anniversary performance of Mark Morris Dance Group. They have become a franchise for Tanglewood so we were treated to having the company open and close the season of dance in the Berkshires.
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Cisne Negro Dance Company at the Joyce Theater
On Tour from Brazil
By: - Aug 22nd, 2011Cisne Negro Dance Company is one of South America's leading dance organizations. It was easy to see why on stage at New York's Joyce Theatre. Rooted in classical ballet forms, the dancers’ moves range from classic positions to poses and gestures only a superb athlete could achieve. In familiar moves members of the company take off in unexpected and delightful tangents.
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Aspen Santa Fe Ballet at Jacob’s Pillow
Diverse Program by Renowned Regional Company
By: - Aug 20th, 2011The Aspen Santa Fe Ballet is regarded as among the nation's leading regional dace companies. It is know for superb dancers and works by leading global choreographers. The three works we experienced before a packed audience at Jacob's Pillow could not have been more diverse. But it also indicates a company without an identifiable signature style.
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Trisha Brown at Jacob’s Pillow
Company Celebrates 40 Years
By: - Aug 14th, 2011During a 40th anniversary of the Trisha Brown Dance Company at Jacob’s Pillow we were provided with a selection of works spanning from 1973 through the present. During the 1960s Brown was a part of the experimental Judson Dance Theatre which was a matrix for multi media work that drew together leading New York choreographers, dancers, visual artists, composers and musicians.
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3e Étage at Jacob’s Pillow
Soloists and Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet
By: - Aug 06th, 2011There were eight U.S. premieres in the rare Jacob's Pillow appearance of 3e Étage: Soloists and Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet. The phenomenal program combined the most demanding and precise classical ballet with goofy comedic segments of mime. It kept the audience guessing until it burst into a standing ovation that seemed to go on forever. It was a stunning and galvanic evening of dance.
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Trisha Brown at Jacob's Pillow August 10-14
40th Anniversary of the Landmark Dance Company
By: - Aug 04th, 2011Trisha Brown’s pioneering dance style is a celebrated cornerstone of modern dance. August 10-14, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival salutes the 40th anniversary of the Trisha Brown Dance Company with a commemorative program of works highlighting Brown’s inventive choreographic range.
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Supernatural Wife at Jacob's Pillow
U.S. Premire by Big Dance Theatre
By: - Aug 01st, 2011Although The Supernatural Wife, based on the Greek tragedy Alkestis by Euripides, was given its U.S. premiere, by Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the multi media Big Dance Theatre has stretched to the snapping point our definition of dance.
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Lar Lubovitch at Jacob’s Pillow
An Exceptionally Fluid Company
By: - Jul 24th, 2011It has been 49 years since Lar Lubovitch formed his company in 1968. In performances at Jacob's Pillow we were provided with an overview from the first Philip Glass music to be set to music North Star, from 1978, to a piece from the past year based on the modal jazz classic My Favorite Things by the John Coltrane Quartet. It was a sensual and evocative evening of modernist classicism. The company often evoked visual beauty, harmony, and an exuding joy of creative 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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