Dance
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Winter Season at '62 Center in Williamstown
Performance Programming at William College
By: - Sep 06th, 2024Kicking off our visiting artist series, the CenterSeries, is Vuyani Dance Theatre performing Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro on Thursday, September 26th. Physically charged and visually striking,?the work?is choreographed by South African native and internationally-known choreographer Gregory Vuyani Maqoma.?Cion?draws inspiration from author Zakes Mda’s novel, Cion?, and Ravel’s Boléro. It is, in?Maqoma’s?words, “a lament, a requiem required to awaken a part of us, the connection to the departed souls.”
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Carlos Caicedo at Eclipse Gallery in North Adams
Pencils Make a Point
By: - Sep 07th, 2024Colombian born, Carlos Caicedo, is an award winning graphic designer, artist/ photographer, and fashion creator. His remarkable range of skills is on vivid display in a dense installation at the Eclipse Gallery in North Adams.
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Hell's Kitchen Musical on Broadway
Aiicia Keys Tells Her Story
By: - Sep 14th, 2024Alicia Key has created herself as “Ali” in the musical Hell’s Kitchen now playing on Broadway. Keys grew up in the Manhattan Plaza complex, a few blocks from Times Square. Built during one of New York’s deep downturns, the building was supposed to be an upper middle class apartment house. Discounted apartments did rent. It became one of New York’s most desirable residences for artists. It formed the artist Keys.
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New Doris Duke Theatre
To Open This Summer at Jacob's Pillow
By: - Nov 20th, 2024Designed by the leading Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo, the reimagined Doris Duke Theatre occupies the site of the former studio theater from 1990, destroyed by fire in November 2020. The new theater aims to become one of the world’s most technologically advanced dance venues, providing a makerspace for artists seeking to integrate artificial intelligence, extended reality, robotics, and immersive platforms into live performance.
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Prototype Festival to Begin New Year
New York's Most Adventuresome Program Music
By: - Dec 28th, 2024The Prototype Festival produced by Beth Morrison starts the avant-garde music world off from January 9 to 19. One work has been around the city in various forms for a while. Black Lodge dives into William Burroughs’ life. Queer, the film starring Daniel Craig, has brought Burroughs mainstream attention. The film with music by David T. Little, wrestles with movies as canned opera.
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Jacob's Pillow 2025
Doris Duke Theatre Reopens
By: - Feb 12th, 2025Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2025 will feature indoor performances in the landmark Ted Shawn Theatre and the newly-opened Doris Duke Theatre, as well as outdoor performances on the Henry J. Leir Stage. The return of the Doris Duke Theatre restores Jacob’s Pillow to its full presenting capacity for the first time since 2020, reuniting the Festival’s three core performance spaces and offering audiences an unparalleled range of dance experiences across the Pillow’s grounds.
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Jacob's Pillow 2025
Outdoor Leir Stage Performances
By: - Feb 27th, 2025Leir Stage performances will be held Wednesdays through Saturdays for all nine weeks of Festival 2025, offering one-night and two-night engagements by companies dancing Afro-Caribbean, contemporary, swing, tap, ballet, jazz, Indigenous, modern, West African, and more. Performances by artists of the Berkshires on Community Day, and by the Contemporary Ballet, Contemporary, and Tap Dance ensembles of The School at Jacob's Pillow, round out the schedule.
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Pillow Honors Norton Owen
2025 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award
By: - Mar 27th, 2025The Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award is presented each year to an artist of exceptional vision and achievement, and carries a cash prize which the artist can use as they choose. As a beloved archivist and mentor, and a founder of the award-winning digital archive platform Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive, Owen has curated decades of resources, events, and creative collections for public access, providing entry points into the vast Archives at Jacob’s Pillow.
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Pillow Pride Weekend
Expanded from One Nighter to Weekend
By: - Apr 22nd, 2025Jacob’s Pillow is pleased to announce the return of Pillow Pride Weekend, a three-day itinerary of events centered on LGBTQ+ joy and visibility that will run as an extension of Pride month from Friday, July 11 through Sunday, July 13. While the longstanding dance festival has hosted a one-night-only Pride-themed dance party in recent summers, this will be the organization’s first time hosting a three-day destination Pride celebration since 2019.
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Jacob’s Pillow Live
Free Streaming All Summer
By: - May 08th, 2025This year’s livestreamed performances will feature the highly anticipated return of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Season Opening Gala, and the Doris Duke Theatre’s inaugural program — along with a wide spectrum of dance genres including ballet, West African dance, contemporary, tap, and Afro-Latin jazz and soul. Performances will be broadcast live from the historic Ted Shawn Theatre, the newly reimagined Doris Duke Theatre, and the iconic Henry J. Leir Stage.
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Fly by Night Dance Soars in New York
Charming and Funny Extension of Dance Movement
By: - Jun 08th, 2025Fly By Night Dance presented its annual New York Aerial Dance Festival at the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center. Founded by Julie Lutwick, the group is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of modern dance. This program demonstrated how storytelling can be enhanced through trapeze work, live music, and the recitation of poignant historic poems.
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BODYTRAFFIC at Jacob's Pillow
LA-based Company July 2 Through 6
By: - Jun 19th, 2025Jacob’s Pillow will welcome the LA-based contemporary dance company BODYTRAFFIC for their Ted Shawn Theatre debut, Wednesday, July 2 through Sunday, July 6. This engagement will occur in the second week of the historic summer festival’s nine-week season. Renowned for their “invention, attitude, and urban edge” (The Boston Globe), BODYTRAFFIC will offer dynamic performances exploring the power of memory and the unexpected reminders all around us that provoke deep feelings of nostalgia.
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Doris Duke Theatre Reopens
Jacob's Pillow Celebrates
By: - Jun 26th, 2025Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival announces the start of an exciting new era with the much anticipated opening of the new Doris Duke Theatre, a transformational space to support the future of dance. Occupying the site of the former studio theater, which was destroyed by fire in November 2020, the reimagined Doris Duke Theatre is set to become one of the most technologically advanced theaters in the world dedicated to dance.
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The Center Will Not Hold: A Dorrance Dance Production
Launches 2025 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Season
By: - Jun 28th, 2025The 2025 Jacob’s Pillow season was launched in the Ted Shawn Theatre by a Festival favorite the Dorrance Dance company. Although the signature tap dance of Michelle Dorrance was an element, the evening long performance “The Center Will Not Hold” was unlike anything previously presented by the company.
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Jacob's Pillow Week Four
Doris Duke Theatre Repoens
By: - Jul 03rd, 2025Jacob’s Pillow welcomes Andrew Schneider and collaborators to present the world premiere of HERE in the Doris Duke Theatre from July 16-20, marking the first week-long performance run in the newly-opened venue, and the first time since 2019 that the summer dance festival has presented works in all three venues on its iconic site in the Berkshires.
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LA Company Bodytraffic at Jacob's Pillow
Fourth Visit Since 2013
By: - Jul 07th, 2025Bodytraffic was founded in 2007 in Los Angeles by Tina Finkelman Berkett and Lilian Barbeito. They made their Jacob’s Pillow debut on the outdoor stage in 2013. They returned two more times including appearing in the Doris Duke Theater. For this season they were invited to perform in the Ted Shawn Theatre.
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Trinity Irish Dance Company
Featured for the First Time at Jacob's Pillow
By: - Jul 14th, 2025Although American based, the world touring company Trinity Irish Dance Company is rooted in traditions of step dancing and music. The unique vision has been to expand the program from folk forms to creating works with progressive vision that puts it on level ground with leading contemporary companies. The dances are exquisite, unique, intricate, and challenging.
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Sarasota Ballet Company at Jacob’s Pillow
Works by Sir Frederick Ashton
By: - Jul 21st, 2025For its first appearance at Jacob's Pillow in a decade the Sarasota Ballet Company presented two works by Sir Frederick Ashton and a world premiere by Jessica Lang, Sir Frederick Ashton (born 1904, Guayaquil, Ecuador—died 1988, Sussex, England) was the principal choreographer and director of England’s Royal Ballet, the repertoire of which includes about 30 of his ballets.
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Sekou McMiller & Friends
Coming to Jacob's Pillow
By: - Jul 23rd, 2025Jacob’s Pillow will welcome the Afro Latin dance company Sekou McMiller & Friends, who brought audiences to their feet last year on the outdoor stage, for their Ted Shawn Theatre debut from July 30 through August 3.
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Stephen Petronio at Jacob’s Pillow
The Last Dances
By: - Jul 28th, 2025When Stephen Petronio announced that he was disbanding his company of 40 years Pamela Tatge of Jacob's Pillow jumped in. Together they planned a program that best represented his work. He spoke directly and candidly to the audience which responded with love and support.
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Week Seven at Jacob's Pillow
Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane and Shamel Pitts
By: - Jul 29th, 2025Touch of RED by Shamel Pitts | TRIBE will get a Jacob’s Pillow premiere that has been five years in the making. This performance will be a homecoming. In the Ted Shawn Theatre, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company will make their first appearance at the Pillow since 2012, running August 6 through 10. Now in their 43rd year, the company is performing two seminal works from their historic repertoire: D-Man in the Waters set to Felix Mendelssohn’s soaring Octet for Strings (1989) and Story/ (2013) performed to Death and the Maiden by Franz Schubert played live.
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Dance in August 2025, Berlin, Germany
Tanz im August 2025, Berliner Festspiele
By: - Sep 03rd, 2025The 37th edition of the international Dance Festival in Berlin, called 'Tanz im August' took place in ten (10) locations in Berlin and introduced twenty (20) amazing contemporary dance companies from around the globe.
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Sole Defined Zaz
Co Presented bv Williams and Jacob's Pillow
By: - Sep 15th, 2025ZAZ is an immersive sensory performance that shifts traditional viewing practices beyond just sight and sound. The performers embody the oral histories and recorded experiences of survivors of Hurricane Katrina. They perform in tap shoes, hard-soled shoes, gumboots, and barefoot, creating a rhythmic score that supports the narration woven into the performance.
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White Raven, Black Dove in Boston
White Snakes Projects Presents
By: - Sep 17th, 2025Celebrated for creating diverse, timely and relevant opera, White Snake Projects (WSP) returns to Boston’s Strand Theatre, September 26-28, 2025, for the world premiere of White Raven, Black Dove, in a season dedicated to addressing the climate crisis through art. Composed by Jacinth Greywoode and Andrew Lynch, and written by librettist Cerise Lim Jacob, White Raven, Blake Dove is an original work of science fiction fantasy exploring two issues consuming America today – race and climate change.
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Jacob's Pillow Rebounds
Announcing Fall Programming
By: - Sep 19th, 2025Jacob’s Pillow announces the presentation of its first-ever fully-produced fall program on campus featuring a special weekend run of Caleb Teicher & Nic Gareiss, an evening-length duo concert performed by the acclaimed dancers and creative partners.
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