Performing in the Ted Shawn Theatre

In its centennial year, the Martha Graham Dance Company returns to Jacob’s Pillow as part of a national commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. The program includes signature works such as Night Journey, Frontier, and Immediate Tragedy, alongside a new Pillow/Tanglewood commission by Hope Boykin incorporating a newly recovered Leonard Bernstein composition.

Exhibition in Blake's Barn

A summer-long exhibition in Blake’s Barn, curated by former Graham dancer Oliver Tobin, explores Martha Graham’s artistic and political voice during the 1930s. Opening this spring at The Church Sag Harbor, it highlights Graham’s first decade as a choreographer and her engagement with political theater and social activism. Together with the Festival performances, the exhibition offers a sweeping portrait of a revolutionary artist whose vision continues to shape modern dance.

Performing in the Ted Shawn Theatre

Returning to Jacob’s Pillow by popular demand, Gauthier Dance brings its signature blend of precision, power, and play to the Ted Shawn Theatre. The program features The Fireworks Project, highlighting six works by leading choreographers, alongside new pieces by Sharon Eyal and Andonis Foniadakis performed on trampolines. Together, these works showcase the company’s wit, musicality, and fearless physicality.

Performing in the Ted Shawn Theatre

Celebrated choreographer Kyle Abraham presents A.I.M’s U.S. premiere of White Space, a new full-length work co-commissioned by Jacob’s Pillow and the Lugano Dance Project. Performed by 12 dancers in an all-white environment, it unites an extraordinary team of collaborators: composers Jason Moran and Nico Muhly, visual artist Glenn Ligon, costume designers Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung, and lighting designer Dan Scully—all with Abraham’s signature mix of grounded lyricism and kinetic intensity. Developed in the Pillow Lab, White Space examines the tension between confrontation and connection, movement and stillness.

Performing Touch of RED in the Doris Duke Theatre

Choreographer Shamel Pitts and his collective TRIBE present Touch of RED, a duet inspired by boxing, Lindy Hop, Gaga movement, and nightlife culture. Set in a stylized boxing ring, the work examines how Black men are perceived and perceive themselves in contemporary society, and this marks its Festival debut.

Performing Weathering in the Doris Duke Theatre

Doris Duke Award-winning choreographer Faye Driscoll presents Weathering, a multi-sensory performance sculpture developed in-part in a 2022 Pillow Lab residency. Ten performers enact a glacially morphing tableau vivant on a mobile raft-like stage, with sounds, scents, liquids, and objects creating a living choreography of micro-events.

Performing Ink in the Doris Duke Theatre

Taiwanese dancer and choreographer Huang Yi makes his Jacob’s Pillow debut with Ink, created with audio-visual pioneer Ryoichi Kurokawa. The piece reconstructs lines from Tong Yang-Tze’s Silent Music series, combining dancers, holographic projections, and industrial robots to explore movement, sound, and visual art as interconnected instruments.