Jacob's Pillow
Founded by Ted Shawn in 1933, Jacob's Pillow is still going strong. If you like your dance up close and personal, there is no better place to enjoy it than here in the Berkshires. The Pillow dance schedule also includes free performances and talks given throughout the season.
- Contact Person:
- Address:
- 358 George Carter Road
- Becket MA, 01223
- Phone:
- (413) 243-9919
- Phone 2:
- (413) 243-0745 (Summer Box Office)
- Website:
- http://www.jacobspillow.org/
165 BFA References to Jacob's Pillow
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Hancock Shaker Village Fine Arts
2012 Calendar of Events
By: - Apr 04th, 2012Hancock Shaker Village (HSV) announces the living history museum’s 2012 plans at a press conference today. The 52nd season will run from April 7 through October 28. It includes a major new exhibition titled A Promising Venture: Shaker Photographs from the WPA, which features the work of photographer Noel Vicentini, who was hired as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project in 1936 to document the Shaker villages in upstate New York and western Massachusetts for the newly-formed Index of American Design.
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Ain Gordon at Mass MoCA April 28 Theatre
Not What Happened
By: - Mar 26th, 2012After a weeklong residency, writer, director, and actor Ain Gordon will present his new contemporary theatre piece Not What Happened on Saturday, April 28, at 8 PM in MASS MoCA'S Hunter Center, as part of MASS MoCA's series of work-in-progress showings. Gordon's work, which The New York Times calls "smart" and characterized by "genuine emotion", investigates the notion of place as it relates to forgotten histories.
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Darrah Carr Dance Jan 21 at Mass MoCA Dance
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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Mass MoCA Winter/ Spring Schedule Opinion
A Mix of Music and Arts
By: - Dec 14th, 2011In the galleries the new exhibition Sanford Biggers: The Cartographer's Conundrum will open on February 5, while the group exhibition Invisible Cities debuts on April 15. Series offered this season will include the exciting Alt Cabaret which features music and dance and MASS MoCA's Thursday night Cinema Lounge series, titled Strategic Thinking, with four films most followed by Q&As with filmmakers.
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Williamstown Film Festival's Lucky 13 Film
Returns October 21-23 and 17-29
By: - Sep 20th, 2011Over two weekends (October 21-23 and 27-29), the Williamstown Film Festival's "Lucky 13th" season will include two East Coast and four New England premieres, family and late-night slots, titles from Sundance, Tribeca, and Toronto, and films featuring Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Carol Channing, Ezra Miller, Lewis Black, Kate Burton, Tony Shalhoub, Campbell Scott, and Christo. WFF will conclude with a salute to legendary director Sidney Lumet at the Clark Art Institute.
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Trisha Brown at Jacob's Pillow August 10-14 Dance
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 Dance
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 Dance
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 Dance
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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Jacob's Pillow Film at BIFF June 4 Film
Narrated by Bill T. Jones
By: - May 29th, 2011Never Stand Still, a new documentary directed by award-winning producer and director Ron Honsa and narrated by Tony Award-winner and Kennedy Center honoree Bill T. Jones will be screened during BIFF on June 4. Never Stand Still is an inspiring film about dance and the extraordinary performers who have dedicated their lives to it; filmed on location at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, a National Historic Landmark and America’s longest running international dance festival.
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Ella Baff Recalls Cunningham and Cage Dance
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 Dance
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 Dance
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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Berkshire Critic Larry Murray Seven Opinion
It's a Wrap
By: - Mar 12th, 2011In this final installment of their dialogue Murray and Giuliano discuss cutting edge theatre which is a mainstay of America Repertory Theatre in Cambridge. And why there is nothing like that in the Berkshires. Murray defines an approach as providing information to readers to help in making informed choices. With so much being offered this summer it is less about competition and more about a critical mass of superb theatre.
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Critic Larry Murray Five Opinion
Blogs and Social Networking
By: - Feb 22nd, 2011In the current political turmoil in the Middle East we have seen how Facebook, e mail, and social networking have resulted in resistance and regime changes. Developments in information technologies have eroded the dominance of traditional media systems. Today with access to the internet and web sites anyone can be a critic or journalist. Murray and Giuliano explore the implications and their role in covering the arts.
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Larry Murray of Berkshire On Stage Opinion
Recalling Sarah Caldwell and E. Virginia Williams
By: - Jan 31st, 2011Larry Murray moved from promoting the Pocket Mime to the BSO and Boston Ballet. He also worked with the legendary opera promoter Sarah Caldwell. He was on duty and fielded the press calls when his friend Arthur Fiedler passed away. In this second installment Murray describes his early years in theatrical marketing and PR.
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Mass MoCA Given $3 Million in Memory of Irene Hunter Dance
Completing $36.4 Million Permanence Campaign
By: - Dec 16th, 2010MASS MoCA announces a major $3 million gift from the estate of Irene Hunter. This gift also leverages an anonymous $1 million challenge grant and the resulting $4 million total marks the completion of MASS MoCA's Permanence campaign which raised over $36.4 million since its launch in 2007. The Permanence Campaign had three goals: To create an endowment to provide financial stability for MASS MoCA's future and to build and endow a "museum within a museum" dedicated to Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawing Retrospective, and to support operations during the campaign period.
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Jacob's Pillow On Line Dance
Offering Curated Selection of PillowTalks
By: - Oct 15th, 2010Jacob’s Pillow Dance, international arts presenter and home of America’s longest-running dance festival, now offers a curated online selection of informative and entertaining PillowTalks. Based in Becket, Mass., Jacob’s Pillow hosts more than 160 free pre-show talks, post-show interviews, and hour-long PillowTalks during its annual Festival. PillowTalks are a series of hour-long moderated discussions with choreographers, performers, historians, filmmakers, and experts in the arts and related fields.
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Hubbard Street Dance Chicago at Jacob's Pillow Dance
A Pleasant but Not Earth Shattering Performance
By: - Aug 30th, 2010Nice, but not exactly ground breaking. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago wants you to love them. They’re not one of those experimental, way out there dance companies that doesn’t care what the public thinks about its performances. They’re like the nice girl in high school, who says thank you and always smiles whenever you say something.
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Gotberg Ballet at Jacob's Pillow Dance
Bolero x 3 = Brilliant
By: - Aug 23rd, 2010The Goteborg Ballet proved why they are the largest contemporary dance company in Nordic countries
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CND2 Good but Not Great at Jacob's Pillow Dance
Nacho Duato Might Have Left the Program in Its Original Order.
By: - Jul 31st, 2010The program had all the ingredients for a memorable night of dance, but CND2 artistic director Nacho Duato outsmarted himself and mixed them all up.
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Pichet Klunchun at Jacob's Pillow Dance
Chui Chai (Transformation) July 14 to 18
By: - Jul 08th, 2010A U.S. premiere from Thailand arrives at Jacob’s Pillow July 14-18 in the Doris Duke Theatre. In the full-length work Chui Chai (Transformation), internationally acclaimed performer and choreographer Pichet Klunchun entwines khon, a form of traditional Thai masked dance drama, with contemporary movement. Intricate costumes and masks and music by Sinnapa Sarasas create a world of ancient beauty and drama that Klunchun juxtaposes with elements of modernity
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Nina Ananiashvili Serves Up Seven-Course Ballet Feast at Jacob's Pillow Dance
The State Ballet of Georgia
By: - Jun 25th, 2010The ballet company's delightful performance features seven distinctly different dances. For those who think the ballet company revolves around Ananiashvili, think again.
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Jacob's Pillow Gala June 19 Dance
Bill T. Jones to be Honored
By: - Jun 07th, 2010Jacob’s Pillow kicks off Festival 2010 on June 19 with the Season Opening Gala, the world-renowned dance organization’s biggest annual fundraising event. Following an exclusive Gala performance in the Ted Shawn Theatre and the presentation of the prestigious Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award to choreographer and director Bill T. Jones, guests are treated to dinner and dancing to live music. This evening is widely celebrated as a signature summer event in the Berkshires and attracts a multitude of dance lovers, celebrities, government dignitaries, and visitors from around the world every year.
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Fourth of July in the Berkshires Opinion
An Abundance of Riches
By: - May 04th, 2010The launch of the Fourth of July arts season in the Berkshires will be like an explosion in a fireworks factory. There has never been a greater offering of superb and diverse performances. While three days of James Taylor and Carole King at Tanglewood sold out ages ago there are many other top options. Mass MoCA is going head to head with Tanglewood on Friday night. It has Richie Havens vs. The Pops. Barrington Stage and Williamstown Theatre Festival will duke it out with dueling Sondheim musicals. There is a ton of stuff at Shakespeare & Company including the opening of John Douglas Thompson in Richard III. Jacobs Pillow and Berkshire Theatre Festival are in the mix. We offer a complete rundown.
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