Thursday, August 17, 2017 at 6:15pm

Periapsis Music and Dance was founded with a mission to cultivate and support new repertoire at the intersection of dance and music, creating and facilitating opportunities for artists to perform with live music and for choreographers to work with living composers. The company’s program, The Portrait Project, is comprised of four different short works, each featuring a solo dancer and solo musician, and each created by a different guest choreographer in collaboration with a composer. Each work will be performed with live music, including Escape Velocity by Seán Curran (with percussion), Twine by Manuel Vignoulle (with viola), Separate Rooms by Joshua Beamish (with bass clarinet), and Reflection by Katarzyna Skarpetowska (with piano). Periapsis Artistic Director and co-founder Jonathan Howard Katz composed original music for Escape Velocity, Twine, and Reflection, and the Separate Rooms score is by composer Shawn Jaeger.

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Friday, August 18, 2017 at 6:15pm

Founded in Arizona in 2007 by David Olarte, Stilo Dance Company is a multi-faceted group that exists as both a performance team and as a community-centered, research-based educational entity. Stilo’s roots lie in Latin social dance, but they pride themselves on breaking the rules and blurring the lines between Afro-Cuban Folklorico, contemporary/modern, and traditional Latin styles. The company performs Paseo, a fluid expression of these values and interdisciplinary viewpoints (connection, listening, finding authentic movement in social dance). Audiences will be led on a pedagogical journey through the broad historical landscape of Latin dance, then catapulted into Stilo’s vision for what lies ahead in the future.

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Thursday, July 13, 2017 at 6:15pm

Dances by Isadora (based in NYC and Boston) has been sharing the work of modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan since 1986. As no films or notation of her dances were made until long after her death in 1927, Duncan’s choreography has been preserved through the teaching of one generation of Duncan dancers to the next. Duncan, considered the “mother of modern dance,” was a revolutionary. Her free and natural movement style was in direct opposition to the rigid ballet technique of her time; she felt that nature was the source of movement and was inspired by the ancient Greeks, the music of classical composers, the wind, and the sea. This program will feature historic work by Duncan including Nocturne and Bacchanal as well as Allegretto, with choreography by Catherine Gallant, the director and co-founder of Dances by Isadora, inspired by Duncan’s 1908 work to the music of Beethoven.

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Class with Inside/Out Artist:  Isadora Duncan Technique

4pm | Catherine Gallant, the director and co-founder of Dances by Isadora, shares Duncan technique. Open to all experience levels, ages 12+; $10 per person.

New York Korean Performing Arts Center, Inc. | Friday, July 14, 2017 at 6:15pm

Sounds of Korea is part of the New York-based Korean Performing Arts Center (KPAC), consisting of a dance troupe, an instrumental chamber ensemble, and a percussion ensemble. Korean performance tradition includes a wide range of styles and settings, such as classical court music, theatrical masked dance, popular storytelling songs, narrative vocal arts, percussion, and solo instrumental folk genres. The group’s artistic emphasis is on the subtle grace and beauty found in Korean traditional dances in which the dancers with powerful, yet delicate, gestures and movements reveal a unique aesthetic beauty. The dance troupe was founded by Sue Yeon Park in 1993, and has maintained an active schedule over the past 20 years, performing prestigious national museums and festival stages, including Lincoln Center, introducing Korean music and dance to a wide array of audiences of diverse cultural backgrounds.

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Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at 6:15pm

In the premiere of his new production company “James Whiteside Presents,” Whiteside, a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, brings 5 Dances, a collection of works in varied styles that he has created over the years. He will perform with American Ballet Theatre soloist Cassandra Trenary, with narration by actor/show maker Jack Ferver. Pillow audiences may remember Whiteside and Trenary from their performances as part of Daniil Simkin’s INTENSIO in 2015. This program consists of Zero Hour, set to Vivaldi’s classic “Winter” and originally co-choreographed by Whiteside and Melissa Hough; On the Water, a pas de deux to Schubert’s “Auf Dem Wasser zu Singen”; and You Rascal You, a solo to Louis Armstrong’s song of the same name and a murder mystery of a jazz dance; among other works.

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Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 6:15pm

Founded in New York City in 2007 and now based in Memphis, TN, Collage Dance Collective works to increase access to outstanding ballet training, diversity on professional ballet stages, and participation by people of color at ballet and other fine arts events. The company returns to the Inside/Out Stage for the first time since 2007, with excerpts of Testament by Complexions Contemporary Ballet Artistic Director Dwight Rhoden; Wash, a new commission by Princess Grace Award winner Joshua Manculich; and Beyond the Veil and Lineage by Juilliard graduate and multi-faceted choreographer Darrell Grand Moultrie.

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Class with Inside/Out Artist:  Ballet Barre with Kevin Thomas

4pm | Collage Dance Collective Artistic Director Kevin Thomas leads this ballet technique class. Open to all experience levels, ages 12+; $10 per person.

Thursday, July 6, 2017 at 6:15pm

Dušan Týnek is a Czech-born choreographer, and for more than 10 years his company and works have been known for sophistication, expert craftsmanship, and an exceptional level of artistry. Employing tactics of game strategy and seduction, his work Middlegame takes its inspiration from the game of chess and 19th Century cafe life. Exploring ideas of elitism, power, and seduction, the dance considers the manipulation of “being played, while playing along.” This work is creative and energetic, danced to music by J.S. Bach, Carlos Paredes, and Yann Terisen. The New Yorker calls it “a mad party in Victorian undergarments …the internal designs thrill with lovely detail and ingenious mayhem.”

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Friday, July 7, 2017 at 6:15pm

Boston-based Danza Orgánica will present Marsha Parrilla’s work-in-progress exploring Puerto Rican identity as it pertains to Blackness and miscegenation in Puerto Rico and the Diaspora. Parrilla’s work-in-progress was developed in a Creative Development Residency earlier this year. Parrilla is the recipient of the New England Foundation for the Arts’ Creative City Grant, the New England Dance Fund, and is the Luminary Artist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Neighborhood Salon, among other accolades. Read an interview with Parrilla in this Pillow Pick: 10 minutes with Marsha Parrilla.

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Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 6:15pm

Following the critically-acclaimed premiere of MONUMENT at Festival 2016, dancer/choreographer Adam H. Weinert returns with Dance of The Ages, an epic ensemble work created by Jacob’s Pillow founder Ted Shawn in 1938 and not seen since his company’s final season nearly 80 years ago. Shawn considered Dance of the Ages to be the summit of his achievements as a choreographer; it was the first evening-length modern dance ever presented, and one of the last creations he built for The Men Dancers. Weinert, an alumnus of The School at Jacob’s Pillow and former Pillow research fellow, and his ensemble will present a work-in-progress showing of Dance of the Ages, reconstructed for the Inside/Out Stage in honor of the Pillow’s 85^th anniversary.

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POP-UP Duets at Third Thursday | June 21, 2018

Janis Claxton Dance presents POP-UP Duets (fragments of love) at Pittsfield’s Third Thursday. This multi-site-specific work draws on the theme of love through elegant and dynamic contemporary movement that evolves from simple everyday interactions. Pittsfield’s Third Thursday cultural street festival is family-friendly and open to the public featuring live music, local food, craft vendors, street performers, and plenty more. Check out more dates and locations.