Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival 2017
Trisha Brown Dance Company
Witty, inventive, and free from convention, the prolific choreographer Trisha Brown holds an uncontested legacy as modern dance’s “boundary-pusher” (The Wall Street Journal).
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Compañía Irene Rodríguez
The “intense, exacting” (The New York Times) performer and choreographer Irene Rodríguez is one of the most prominent figures in Cuban dance.
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The School at Jacob's Pillow Presents: A JAZZ HAPPENING
To commemorate our 85th Anniversary Season, Broadway’s Chet Walker presents numbers from The Last Scrapbook: The Jack Cole Story, a new musical conceived by him and Shaun McKenna, who is also writing the book and lyrics.
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Special Events
A Jazz Happening, an alumni reunion, an epic dance party, and more.
Intent on legitimizing dance in America as an honorable career for men, choreographer and dancer Ted Shawn founded Jacob’s Pillow in 1931.
“Thousands of people, of all ages, from across the United States and the world, have Jacob’s Pillow to thank for opening their horizons to dance.”
awarding Jacob’s Pillow with a 2010 National Medal of Arts
Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers in Dance of the Ages, 1938. Photo: Shapiro Studios