Pillow Lab: 2024-2025

A year-round incubator of new work, the Pillow Lab hosts ten artist residencies this fall, winter, and spring. These customizable residencies support U.S.-based and international dance artists during crucial development, research, and technical stages of choreography-driven projects.

Pillow Lab: Hélène Simoneau Danse

Residency: October 16-27, 2024
Showing: October 26, 2024

During her Pillow Lab residency, Hélène Simoneau Danse will develop Late Bloomer, a new work exploring themes of power, belonging, and the impact of exclusion.

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Research Pillow Lab:
Emily Coates with Ain Gordon, Derek Lucci, and Charles Burnham

Residency: October 18 - 27, 2024
Dancer-choreographer Emily Coates returns to Jacob's Pillow to research and develop a new project that reflects on the enduring influence of George Balanchine in unexpected places, drawing from archives, special collections, and the bodies of dancers who worked with him.

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Pillow Lab: Music from the Sole

Residency: October 30 - November 10, 2024
Showing: November 9, 2024

Music from the Sole, led by Leonardo Sandoval and Gregory Richardson, will further explore tap's fluid identity as both dance and music while developing a new evening-length work.

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Pillow Lab: Andy Blankenbuehler and Kate Quinn

Residency: November 13-24, 2024
Showing: November 23, 2024

Andy Blankenbuehler and Kate Quinn's Never Alone explores the internal struggles of its characters through dance, shifting seamlessly across diverse settings.

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Pillow Lab: Brinae Ali

Residency: December 4-15, 2024
Showing: December 14, 2024

Brinae Ali's The Baby Laurence Legacy Project reimagines the work of Donald "Baby Laurence" Jackson, celebrating his impact on tap dance and jazz while exploring the social context of his struggles and the bebop aesthetic.

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Pillow Lab: dani tirell

Residency: January 29-February 9, 2025
Showing: February 8, 2025

dani will use the Pillow Lab residency to develop The Children Were Never Promised a House on Your Plantation, a piece exploring Queer, Trans, and Femme experiences within family structures through African diasporic movement techniques.

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Pillow Lab: Peter Rockford Espiritu and Roberta Uno

Residency: February 12-23, 2025
Showing: February 22, 2025

Peter Rockford Espiritu, in collaboration with Roberta Uno, will focus on developing Waihona Kino, Espirituʻs journey towards Pōhuli, the unique movement modality through which he has reflected on the impact of what Oceania was, what it has become and where it is headed. 

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Pillow Lab: Joanna Kotze

Residency: March 5-16, 2024
Showing: March 15, 2024

During her residency at Jacob’s Pillow, Joanna Kotze and her collaborators will investigate the phenomenon of history repeating itself through a two-part, unison, non-unison, non-hierarchical, canon dance.

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Pillow Lab: The Choreodaemonic Collective

Residency: March 18-25, 2025
Showing: March 22, 2025

The Choreodaemonic Collective, led by choreographers Laurel Lawson and Sydney Skybetter, merges choreography with technology to explore the interplay between individuals, collectives, and the environment.

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Pillow Lab: Rosy Simas

Residency: March 26 - April 5, 2025
Showing date to be announced

During her residency, transdisciplinary and dance artist Rosy Simas will work on a new project that will culminate in a series of actions for healing, generative, and deep rest.

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Lead support for the Pillow Lab is provided by the Mellon Foundation

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