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  • A Crossing: A Dance Musical

    Barrington Stage Presents Powerful New Work for All of America

    By: Charles Giuliano - Oct 02nd, 2021

    While 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.

  • Jacob's Pillow 2022

    Newly Renovated Ted Shawn Theater

    By: Pillow - Feb 02nd, 2022

    Festival 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.

  • Tanzplattform, HAU, Berlin, Germany

    Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) hosts dance again

    By: Angelika Jansen - Mar 22nd, 2022

    Berlin 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.

  • Jacob’s Pillow’s 90th Season

    Chill in Renovated Ted Shawn Theatre

    By: Pillow - Jun 18th, 2022

    Attending 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.  

  • Jacob’s Pillow Alumnus Jonah Bokaer

    Dance at Clark Art Instutute

    By: Clark - Jul 08th, 2022

    On 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.

  • Julis Bullock Expands Harawi in Aix

    Choreographed Drama by Zack Winokur

    By: Susan Hall - Jul 22nd, 2022

    Julia 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.

  • Dance in August, Berlin

    34th International Dance Festival

    By: Angelika Jansen - Aug 29th, 2022

    The 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.

  • Dance Theatre of Harlem: Sounds of Hazel

    Works & Process at the Guggenheim

    By: Guggenheim - Sep 28th, 2022

    Sounds 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.

  • Rachel Linsky Debuts Dance Hidden

    Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Black Box Theater

    By: BCA - Sep 29th, 2022

    Boston-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.

  • Opera Philadelphia Expands Poe's Raven

    Toshio Hosokawa's Monologue with Dance

    By: Susan Hall - Sep 29th, 2022

    Opera 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.

  • Shamel Pitts | TRIBE: Touch of RED

    MoCA World Premiere Co-presented with Jacob's Pillow

    By: MoCA - Oct 04th, 2022

    Groundbreaking choreographer Shamel Pitts doesn’t dance around big issues—instead, he dances into them.

  • '62 Center at Williams College

    Theatre and Dance

    By: Williams - Nov 02nd, 2022

    Upcoming 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.

  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival 2023

    Mark Morris Launches Season

    By: Pillow - Feb 15th, 2023

    Running 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.

  • Flamenco at Williams

    Noche Flamenca at '62 Center

    By: Williams - Mar 29th, 2023

    Noche 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.

  • Art Bath's De Gustation

    Making Multi Media Art for the Masses

    By: Susan Hall - May 15th, 2023

    Elizabeth 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.

  • Mark Morris Launches Pillow Season

    The Look of Love to Music of Burt Bacharach

    By: Pillow - May 31st, 2023

    A 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.

  • Ojai Festival on Historic Journey

    Rhiannon Giddens Programs All Music

    By: Sharon Eubanks - Jun 22nd, 2023

    At 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.  

  • Dance in Albany 2023-2024

    The Egg and the University at Albany

    By: Egg - Jun 29th, 2023

    For 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.  

  • Mark Morris at Jacob's Pillow

    Bacharach/ David The Look of Love

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 11th, 2023

    Jacob'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.

  • Week Seven at Jacob's Pillow

    Complexions Contemporary Ballet

    By: Pillow - Jul 12th, 2023

    For 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. 

  • Dutch National Ballet

    World Class Company at Jacob's Pillow

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 18th, 2023

    The 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.

  • Jacob's Pillow Week Eight

    Martha Graham Dance Company

    By: Pillow - Jul 19th, 2023

    Jacob'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.

  • Is it Thursday Yet at La Jolla Playhouse

    Jenn Freeman and Sonya Tayeh Join Forces in Dance and Drama

    By: Sharon Eubanks - 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.  

  • Eric Gauthier at Jacob's Pillow

    Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart.

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 01st, 2023

    Now 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.

  • Hip Hop Across The Pillow at Jacobs Pillow

    A Festival inside the 2023 Summer Dance Festival

    By: Astrid Hiemer - Aug 07th, 2023

    Hip 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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