Free Performances!

A series of free outdoor showings.

Free Talks!

Plus Pre-Show Talks , 30 minutes before every ticketed performance.

Wednesday 8/13/08 at 6:30

Kate Weare Company and Maureen Fleming

Two very different NYC artists present work in this special preview. Weare's contemporary troupe performs an excerpt from the premiere of Bridge of Sighs and performance artist Maureen Fleming invites audiences into her world of surreal movement poetry. A Doris Duke Studio Theatre preview.

Wednesday 8/13/08 at 5:00

Presenting Dance

An enlightening publication about the joys and challenges of presenting dance performances has been co-produced by the Pillow and the prominent national service organizations Dance/USA and the Association of Performing Arts Presenters. Key individuals in this venture come together to discuss the book and its conclusions.

Thursday 8/14/08 at 6:30

Gallim Dance

Prior to founding Gallim Dance, artistic director Andrea Miller danced with master choreographer Ohad Naharin's Batsheva, in Tel Aviv. Now Miller presents her own explosive movement vocabulary, which hangs somewhere between elegance and insanity, in this smart, powerful program.

Thursday 8/14/08

Post-Show Talk: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet

Q&A with the artists from Aspen Santa Fe Ballet following their 8pm performance in the Ted Shawn Theatre.

Friday 8/15/08 at 6:30

Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance

The Village Voice states “Lavagnino...twists the clichés of pointe work, bringing the genre grasping and flailing into the 21st Century.” Merging the dynamic extremes of ballet, this energetic contemporary troupe explores the human condition through themes of aggression, fragility, and struggle, all on pointe.

Friday 8/15/08

Post-Show Talk: Kate Weare Company and Maureen Fleming

Q&A with the artists of Kate Weare Company and Maureen Fleming following their 8:15pm performance in the Doris Duke Studio Theatre.

Saturday 8/16/08 at 6:30

The School at Jacob's Pillow: Jazz/Musical Theatre Dance

This lively showing culminates three weeks of rigorous dance and vocal study for the Jazz/Musical Theatre Dance participants, under the direction of Broadway veterans Chet Walker, Mercedes Ellington and other guest faculty.

Photo: Paul Rocheleau

Saturday 8/16/08 at 4:00
The Dancer Within

Photographer Rose Eichenbaum has subtitled her new book "Intimate Conversations with Great Dancers," and some of those subjects will be on hand to continue the conversations in person and participate in a book-signing. Forty prominent dance figures are both pictured and profiled with striking candor.

Photo: Jessica Thelen