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Recent Press Releases:

• Faye Driscoll Receives 2018 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award as Influential Choreographer, Director, and Investigator of Performance.
• Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie Receives Inaugural Jacob’s Pillow Fellowship at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts at LIU Post
• Jacob’s Pillow Presents a Rare Public Glimpse into the Pillow Lab
• Jacob’s Pillow Announces New Festival Dining Partnership with AAA 4-S-star The Old Inn on the Green
• Jacob’s Pillow Calls All Artists to Apply to Inside/Out: Chance to Dance Contest, Application Deadline February 25
• Jacob’s Pillow and MASS MoCA Co-present Okwui Okpokwasili’s Poor People’s TV Room & Ephrat Asherie Dance’s work-in-progress Odeon
• Jacob’s Pillow Reinstates the National Dance Presenters Forum in partnership with The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) & the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP)
• Jacob’s Pillow Announces Festival 2018 with U.S. Debuts, World Premieres, International Artist, and Work Developed at the Pillow Lab
• Jacob’s Pillow Presents ‘Contemporary Dance on Ice’ Pillow Pop-Up: Le Patin Libre at Boys & Girls Club of the Berkshires in Pittsfield
• Jacob’s Pillow Moves Into Festival 2018 Announcing First Four Festival Artist
• Jacob’s Pillow Receives $300,000 Grant from The Ford Foundation for New Pittsfield Moves! Program with Lead Artist Paloma McGregor
• Bolstered by the New Perles Family Studio The School at Jacob’s Pillow expands with New, Unparalleled Choreography Program & additional 2018 Professional Advancement Programs including a New Two-Week Gaga Program
• Jacob’s Pillow Continues to Implement Vision ‘22 with New, Extended Year-Round Programming from September Through May 2017-2018
• Jacob’s Pillow Announces Festival 2017 Success with Record-Breaking 111,000 Experiences
• Jacob’s Pillow Dance Hosts Dog Dance, August 26
• Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Presents World Premiere Of The Principles Of Uncertainty, A Collaboration Between Choreographer John Heginbotham And Artist/Author Maira Kalman
• The Washington Ballet Brings Works Of Today’s Leading Contemporary Ballet Choreographers To The Ted Shawn Theatre, August 23-27
• Compañía Irene Rodríguez Of Havana, Cuba Makes Highly-Anticipated Jacob’s Pillow Debut, August 16–20
• Jacob’s Pillow And The Trisha Brown Dance Company Celebrate Brown’s Legacy In The Ted Shawn Theatre, August 16-19
• Jacob’s Pillow Dance Celebrates Opening Of New Perles Family Studio By Flansburgh Architects
• Dendy/Donovan Projects Brings Their Newest Dance-Theater Work, Elvis Everywhere, To Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, August 9-13
• Camille A. Brown Brings BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play to the Ted Shawn Theatre, August 9–13
• Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Receives $10,000 Grant From The Feigenbaum Foundation
• Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Receives $225,000 Grant From Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund
• Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion Returns To Jacob’s Pillow With Their Newest Work, Dearest Home, August 2–6
• Jacob’s Pillow Dance Celebrates 30 Years Of Doug Varone & Dancers With A Retrospective Program In The Ted Shawn Theatre, August 2–6
• AteNine Brings Fierce Gaga Movement To Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, July 26–30
• Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Presents Ballet Hispánico Featuring The Festival’s First Work Commissioned By Director Pamela Tatge, July 26–30

• Jacob’s Pillow Partners With Great Barrington-Based Greenagers Inc. To Restore And Revive Its Wetlands Trail

• Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Launches Free Bus Service For Berkshire County Residents With Transportation Needs
• Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Presents Aakash Odedra In Rising, July 19-23
• Groundbreaking Canadian Ensemble Compagnie Marie Chouinard Makes Its Jacob’s Pillow Debut, July 19-23
• Roy Assaf Dance Makes Its U.S. Debut at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, July 12-16
• Paul Taylor Dance Company Returns to Jacob’s Pillow for Seven Performances
• At the Launch of its 85th Anniversary Season Jacob’s Pillow Dance Unveils Plans for the Future: Vision ‘22
• Faye Driscoll’s Thank You For Coming: Attendence at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, July 5-9
• Jessica Lang Dance Makes its Ted Shawn Theatre Debut at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, July 5-9
• Pilobolus Dance Theater Premieres a New Site-Specific Work to Kick Off Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2017
• Portland-Based NW Dance Project Makes its Debut at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, June 28-July 2
• TIRELESS: A Tap Dance Experience, At Jacob’s Pillow June 28-July 2 Curated By Tap Sensation Michelle Dorrance
• Jonah Bokaer Choreography Opens Jacob’s Pillow 85th Anniversary Season in the Doris Duke Theatre, June 21-25
• Miami City Ballet Opens Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 85th Anniversary Season, June 21-25
• Jacob’s Pillow Enters 85th Anniversary Season with a Renewed Focus on Community and Collaboration
• Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Kicks Off 85th Anniversary with Season Opening Gala
• Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Adds Two New Opportunities to Experience Trisha Brown Dance Company
• Jacob’s Pillow Dance Packs 85th Anniversary Season With 350+ Events, More Than Half Free And Open to Community
• 2017 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award Goes to Liz Lerman; Innovative Choreographer, Performer, Writer, Educator, and Speaker
• With $100,000 from Barr Foundation, Jacob’s Pillow Dance to Expand Engagement Programming in Berkshire County and New England
• Announcing Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive Site Expansion: Multimedia Essays on Tap, Women in Dance, and Dance of the African Diaspora
• Jacob’s Pillow Dance at 10×10 Upstreet Arts Festival: Danza Orgánica Hosts Free Social Justice Movement Workshop and Lecture Demonstration of Running in Stillness
• Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Hosts First Ever Inside/Out: Chance to Dance Contest
• Jacob’s Pillow Dance and MASS MoCA Co-present Bill T. Jones and Okwui Okpokwasili in Response to Nick Cave’s Until
• Jacob’s Pillow Dance and MASS MoCA Co-present the Work-In-Progress Showing of Richard Move’s XXYY
• Jacob’s Pillow Dance Announces 85th Anniversary Season; Special Commissions, Site-Specific Work, World Premieres, Live Music; Artists from Israel, Cuba, Japan, The U.K., and Canada
• The School at Jacob’s Pillow Announces 2017 Professional Advancement Programs Directed by World-Renowned Choreographers and Dance Artists
• Jacob’s Pillow Dance Moves Into Its 85th Anniversary Season Announcing Five Festival 2017 Artists