Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival 2022
Explore The Pillow
Dance with us this summer
Our classes & workshops offer unique dance and movement opportunities for all.
PillowTalks at Blake's Barn
This free curated series provide an excellent opportunity to gain behind-the-scenes insight.
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