In this once-in-a-lifetime experience, Michelle Dorrance with her remarkable tap company and friends take over the Pillow grounds, with performances in the Ted Shawn Theatre, Doris Duke Theatre, Inside/Out Stage, and special pop-ups.

In the U.S. premiere of Swan Lakes, four of today’s leading international choreographers create their own versions of the classic story. Germany’s Gauthier Dance performs contemporary adaptations by Marie Chouinard, Marco Goecke, Cayetano Soto, and Hofesh Shechter, as stylistically varied as the star choreographers themselves.

Dedicated to the rich storytelling traditions of the South Pacific, New Zealand-based Black Grace masterfully blends contemporary and Samoan/Maori dance genres, expressing them with “phenomenal strength, stamina and spirit” (The New Zealand Herald).

Choreographer Alonzo King, “one of the few bona fide visionaries in the ballet world today” (San Francisco Chronicle) is renowned for imbuing classical ballet with new expressive potential. This audience favorite returns, flaunting their signature “commanding presence, undulant grace, kinetic angularity and limb-flexing elasticity” (San Francisco Chronicle).