Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Announces 2016 Season [Berkshire on Stage]
Following the critical acclaim and record-breaking ticket sales and attendance of Festival 2015, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Becket announced a new season of exciting programming featuring...
View ArticlePamela Tatge Takes Over as Leader of Jacob’s Pillow [Berkshire on Stage]
Pamela Tatge will lead Jacob’s Pillow into the future… Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Becket has announced that esteemed arts leader Pamela Tatge will join the organization as Executive Director in...
View ArticleFREE: Pre-Season Community Day @ Jacob’s Pillow on Saturday [Berkshire on Stage]
Following the success of last year’s Community Day, Jacob’s Pillow – the home to America’s longest-running dance festival and recipient of the National Medal of Arts – will again host their pre-season...
View ArticleAspen Santa Fe Ballet Kicks Off 2016 @ Jacob’s Pillow [Berkshire on Stage]
Jacob’s Pillow in Becket launches its 84th annual season today (June 22) with the exciting contemporary dance company Aspen Santa Fe Ballet presenting a diverse program in the Ted Shawn Theatre through...
View ArticleDANCE: “Mariko’s Magical Mix” Heads Into Jacob’s Pillow [Berkshire on Stage]
Hubbard Street 2, the young second company of the world-renowned Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, will present Mariko’s Magical Mix: A Dance Adventure for their Jacob’s Pillow debut, in the Doris Duke...
View ArticleTHEATER: Spend “An Intimate Evening with Death, Herself” [Berkshire on Stage]
Douglass Truth, a well-known painter, performer and former Berkshires resident who was the first artist to join Pittsfield’s Storefront Artist Project, returns to the Berkshires this month for an art...
View ArticleFirst Peek at Summer 2017: Jacob’s Pillow [Berkshire on Stage]
By Larry Murray As the days grow shorter and the snow begins to fly, gardeners take to their seed catalogs and dream of Spring. Audiences immerse themselves in traditional Nutcrackers, English style...
View ArticleDANCE: Jacob’s Pillow Announces Summer Schedule [Berkshire on Stage]
Following the critical acclaim and record-breaking attendance of Festival 2016, Jacob’s Pillow in Becket has announced its 85th anniversary season of exciting programming featuring world premieres,...
View ArticleA Multimedia Exploration of Gender Politics @ MASS MoCA [Berkshire on Stage]
Cultural partners Jacob’s Pillow and MASS MoCA present a one-night-only work-in-progress showing of performing artist, choreographer, and TEDGlobal Oxford Fellow Richard Move’s XXYY at 8pm on Friday...
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Dance Theatre of Harlem to Dance Elegiac Ballet with Music by Arvo Pärt...
Taurean Green and Ingrid Silva of Dance Theatre of Harlem (photo: Rachel Neville) Following a successful opening week of Festival 2013, Dance Theatre of Harlem returns to Jacob’s Pillow in Becket on...
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LeeSaar’s “Grass and Jackals” Stunning Spectacle @ Jacob’s Pillow Dance...
LeeSaar The Company (photo: Denise Cerniglia) LeeSaar The Company closes Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2014 with the captivating evening-length work Grass and Jackals, a sensual, inventive, and...
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Final Week of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Features Aspen Santa Fe Ballet...
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet (photo: Sharen Bradford) Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, one of the country’s leading contemporary ballet companies, returns to Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Becket for the 82nd season...
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Jacob’s Pillow Has Record-Breaking 2014; Previews Some 2015 Offerings...
The serenity of Jacob’s Pillow in winter belies the intense activity now underway as it prepares for its 2015 season. By Larry Murray No sooner has the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival tallied up its...
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Jacob’s Pillow Announces 2015 Schedule with 200 Free Events [Berkshire on Stage]
Céline Cassone & Daniil Simkin (photo: Ken Browar & Deborah Ory of NYC Dance Project) Highlights of the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2015 include Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host, a...
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LIVE: Home Body @ the Dream Away Lodge, 5/23/15
Photographs by Timothy Reidy WHO: Home Body, the Northampton-based electric pop duo of Eric Hnatow and Haley Morgan WHERE: The intimate, funky but chic Dream Away Lodge, Becket WHEN: Saturday, May 23,...
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“Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host” Mixes Talk Radio and Dance @...
Anna Bass, Ira Glass and Monica Bill Barnes in “Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host” (photo: David Bazemore) Dance to talk radio sounds like an impossible thing to pull off, but it’s not. Jacob’s...
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Ballet BC Opens Jacob’s Pillow 83rd Season on Wednesday [Berkshire on Stage]
Andrew Bartee of Ballet BC (photo: Michael Slobodian) Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Becket opens its 83rd season with Canada’s premier contemporary ballet company, Ballet BC, presenting a diverse...
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FREE: The Complete Jacob’s Pillow Schedule of Inside/Out Performances...
Daniel Gwirtzman Dance on the Inside/Out stage at Jacob’s Pillow (photo: Christopher Duggan) For ticketed performances, see our season schedule story. Presenting both emerging and esteemed dance...
View ArticleDANCE: Daniil Simkin Reveals Four New High Tech Ballets at Jacob’s Pillow...
By Larry Murray I caught up with Daniil Simkin a couple of months ago as he was finishing up his promotional duties for the Rick Burns American Masters documentary about American Ballet Theatre, which...
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Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Sneak-Previews 2016 Season [Berkshire on Stage]
Virtuosic tap dance meets interactive electronic music technology in “ETM: Double Down,” a world premiere from Dorrance Dance. Photo by Christopher Duggan. By Larry Murray While not giving the whole...
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