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Exciting programming featuring world premieres, commissions, site-specific work, international artists, live music, exclusive engagements, and more!

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Start your summer dancing

Join us in celebrating the magic that is Jacob’s Pillow at our Season Opening Gala and #PARTYATTHEPILLOW at the Gala After Party with New York-based crooner Paul Loren!

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Free Family-Friendly Fun

Get excited for the summer with this pre-Festival, family-friendly afternoon of free dance classes, dance-themed children’s activities and tours, and performances on the Inside/Out stage.

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Join the Movement

Attend community performances, classes, workshops, dance parties, and even more.

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Dive into Dance History

Read about our Festival 2018 exhibits and explore during your visit this summer!

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Support Everything You Love

You can make life-changing dance experiences possible for students, artists, and audiences!

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Pop-Ups in the Berkshires

Join us in the Dance Zone at Pittsfield’s Third Thursday for pop-up performances all summer long.

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Special Events

A fabulous season-opening party, intimate film screenings, an epic dance battle, a happy hour not to forget, an ultimate end-of-summer celebration, and many more!

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An ever-growing collection of dance videos filmed at Jacob’s Pillow from the 1930s to today.

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Discover the Berkshires

Discover the Berkshires

Expand upon your trip to the Pillow and experience the beauty of the Berkshires — a thriving cultural region filled with historic landmarks, museums, farm-to-table dining, and performing arts venues.

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Opportunities for Artists

Opportunities for Artists

Visionary artists are supported through the Jacob's Pillow Dance Award and the Pillow Lab, while emerging artists can apply to perform at our Inside/Out Series.

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Intent on legitimizing dance in America as an honorable career for men, choreographer and dancer Ted Shawn founded Jacob’s Pillow in 1931.

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“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.”

President Barack Obama

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

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