Friday, July 5, 2019 at 2pm

Enjoy FREE dance games, a free outdoor Inside/Out performance, multi-generational movement and music classes, a special kids’ tour of the Pillow’s historic grounds, pop-up performances, and more! Scroll for full schedule of events.

Pop-Up Circus by Nimble Arts

Nimble Arts will be performing circus vignettes at Jacob’s Pillow, sharing a variety of circus artistry in the air and on the ground. Founded by identical twin aerialists Elsie Smith & Serenity Smith Forchion, the ensemble troupe of performers brings vaudevillian fun, emotive physicality, and astonishing human capacity to their work.

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Full Schedule

2-5pm | Free popcorn, bubbles & music, and face painting! | Tea Garden

2-2:45pm | Zumba | Sommers Studio

2:15, 3:15, 4:15pm | Pop-Up by Nimble Arts: Aerial Vignettes | Great Lawn

2:30, 3:30, 4:30pm | Pop-Up by Nimble Arts: Acrobatic Vignettes | Blake’s Barn Lawn

2:30, 3:30, 4:30pm | Move-Along Storytime | Ted Shawn Theatre bell

2:45, 3:45, 4:45pm | Pop-Up by Nimble Arts: Juggling Vignettes | Tea Garden 

3-3:30pm | Kids Historical Tour | Meet at the Welcome Center

3-3:45pm | Folk Dance | Sommers Studio

4-4:45pm | Hip-Hop | Sommers Studio

5-6pm | Families Dance Together | Sommers Studio

Trisha Brown: In Plain Site

Sunday, August 13, 2017 at 1pm & 4pm

The Trisha Brown Dance Company continues Brown’s legacy through its Trisha Brown: In Plain Site initiative. Through this effort, the company draws on Brown’s model for reinvigorating her choreography at new sites and in new contexts. In a co-presentation by Jacob’s Pillow and the Clark, the company will present Trisha Brown: In Plain Site on the Clark’s grounds in Williamstown.

Related multimedia essay on Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive: Women in Dance: Trisha Brown, written and curated by Maura Keefe.

 

Wednesday, August 9, 2017 at 6:15pm

Showcasing high-octane physicality and combining elements of modern dance, hip-hop, floor work, and physical theater, the DASH Ensemble performs Ways to Handle, created by Artistic Director Gregory Dolbashian in collaboration with the artists of DASH. Dolbashian has created works for companies such as Ballet Austin, ABT, Atlanta Ballet, and Hubbard Street 2. He created The DASH Ensemble in 2009, and since then the company has performed at The Joyce Theater, New York Live Arts, Guggenheim Works & Process, The Skirball Center, and as part of the Inside/Out Performance Series in 2010.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2017 at 6:15pm

Xan Burley and Alex Springer are dancers, choreographers, teachers, collaborators, and members of Doug Varone and Dancers. Following the company’s engagement in the Ted Shawn Theatre, August 2-6, Burley and Springer will stay on as Jacob’s Pillow Research Fellows and will create a site-specific work, which will premiere on August 16. As creative and life partners, collaboration is inherent and key for this duo. Since 2008, their cohesive efforts have taken shape as dance theater for the stage and camera, interdisciplinary work, site-specific performance, durational exhibition, and community engagement. Their choreography has been commissioned by colleges and universities across the U.S. As members of Doug Varone and Dancers, both have taught and performed extensively in the U.S. and abroad, including Korea, the Dominican Republic, Russia, Argentina, Peru, and Hungary.

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Friday, August 11, 2017 at 6:15pm

Études, a dynamic dance dialogue between Preeti Vasudevan, classical Bharatanatyam dancer, and Amar Ramasar, soloist at the New York City Ballet, redefines classical movement idioms. The movement combines superior technique and the joy of dance, spanning two very different genres. Vasudevan is the director of Thresh, an arts collaborative that creates productions that explore a contemporary movement derived from the gestures, rhythms and storytelling techniques of Indian classical dance-theater. Winner of several international awards, Vasudevan is the first Indian choreographer to be invited as a Resident Fellow at the prestigious Center for Ballet and the Arts in New York, and as an Artist-in-Residence at New York Live Arts, premiering her new commissioned work in late 2017.

Études will be performed by Preeti Vasudevan and Craig Hall in place of Amar Ramasar. 

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Friday, August 4, 2017 at 6:15pm

From Cleveland, Ohio, Inlet Dance Theatre is a contemporary dance company founded in 2001 by choreographer and Executive/Artistic Director Bill Wade. Their Inside/Out program includes This Could Hurt, inspired by Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers and the book Wild At Heart by John Eldredge, centered around a group of men having an adventure full of risk; Doppelganger, a transfixing duet that plays with balance, dependency, and weight sharing; and excerpts from Easter Island Memoirs, the result of a residency on Easter Island, a remote volcanic island in Polynesia.

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Thursday, August 3, 2017 at 6:15pm

Appearing on the Inside/Out stage for a third time, METdance from Houston, TX, present works by some of the most active and accomplished choreographers of this generation, in a program that highlights the company’s signature effervescent energy and passion for diversity. The program features New Second Line, inspired by the events of Hurricane Katrina and choreographed by Guggenheim Fellow, and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award winner Camille A. Brown; The Clean-Cut American Stage Show, a fusion of vintage Americana and contemporary design by founder and director of Dark Circles Contemporary Dance Joshua L. Peugh; and Snow Playground, a crystal-clear look at the organized flurry of a winter snowfall by celebrated performer and choreographer Katarzyna Skarpetowska.

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Wednesday, August 2, 2017 at 6:15pm

Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, a contemporary ballet company based in San Francisco, will show excerpts of Wandering, Seiwert’ first evening-length contemporary ballet set to “Winterreise,” a piano and voice cycle by Franz Schubert to 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller. The dramatic monologue reflects the story of a wanderer who feels lost from himself and lost from the world. Wandering was created during a residency provided by The Joyce Theater Foundation, New York City, with major support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Amy Seiwert enjoyed a nineteen-year performing career dancing with the Smuin, LA Chamber, and Sacramento Ballets. As a dancer with Smuin Ballet she became involved with the “Protégé Program” where her choreography was mentored by the late Michael Smuin, and became Choreographer in Residence there upon her retirement from dancing in 2008.

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Friday, July 28, 2017 at 6:15pm

The US-based Ologunde ensemble celebrates the rich Afro-Brazilian culture of Salvador Bahia, Brazil through a diverse repertoire of music, dance and martial arts. Comprised of artists living in the U.S. and Brazil, the ensemble is under the direction of master percussionist Dendê Macêdo. The troupe performs a diverse repertoire which includes the rituals associated with candomblé, a synthesis of the Yoruba and Catholic religions; the capoeira martial arts dance; maculêlê, a warrior dance which utilizes sticks and machetes and was originally created in the sugarcane fields by slaves; and the exhilarating samba de roda, which can be traced back to the semba of Angola.

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