Jacob's Pillow Dance

August 3, 2012 - Choreographer Doug Elkins and co-directors Barbara Karger and Michael Preston have announced that they will conclude a three-year tour of the acclaimed production Fräulein Maria at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, August 22-26. A hilarious and astute dance production inspired by the unforgettable score from the film The Sound of Music, the show has been named to year-end "Top Ten Best" lists in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Cleveland Plain-Dealer, the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Hartford Courant, and The Village Voice. Roslyn Sulcas of The New York Times calls the work a "mini-masterpiece of a certain kind, encompassing everything that is brilliant about Mr. Elkins's choreography: his skillful craftsmanship; his musicality and timing; the effortless melding of every kind of dance technique you can think of, mediated by his own inimitable, highly coordinated physical style." The production returns as part of the "Back by Popular Demand" series, in honor of the Pillow's 80th Anniversary Festival; this engagement will mark Fräulein Maria's final public performances, as well as the final Festival 2012 performances in the Doris Duke Theatre.

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