Third Thursday: Tapped In: Alumni of The School at Jacob’s Pillow
Aug 15, 2019 | Join us in the Dance Zone at the north end of Pittsfield’s Third Thursday cultural street festival for this family-friendly pop-up performance by alums of The School at Jacob’s Pillow. Tapped In features tap dancers Demi Remick and Jabu Graybeal performing tap solos, with others to be announced.
This performance took place on July 25, 2024.
McMiller’s new work, inspired by the golden age of mambo at the Palladium nighclub in New York City during the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, brings together a wide collective of skilled dancers, musicians, and performers to create a masterful show that fuses music and dance while uniting interconnected cultures.
Inside/Out: Red Sky Performance
Aug 26, 2017
Red Sky Performance is Canada’s leading company of contemporary Indigenous performance in dance, theater, music, and media.
Merce Cunningham, Liz Gerring, Kyle Abraham: Three Duets
This performance took place on July 12, 2024.
A celebration of Cunningham’s 50 year legacy,Three Duets brings together an arrangement from Merce Cunningham’s Landrover, Liz Gerring’s Dialogue, and Kyle Abraham’s MotorRover, seen together in live performance for the first time.
Inside/Out: Charya Burt Cambodian Dance
Aug 25, 2017
Showcasing Charya Burt’s inventive choreography, based in Cambodia’s classical dance tradition, this program includes her 2016 San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival premiere, Heavenly Garden; a demonstration of classical Cambodian movements and gestures; Sentimental Dance from the classical repertory; and Intersections Through Time, which explores her personal journey as an immigrant artist.
MoBBallet:
Pathways to Performance
This performance took place on July 10-11, 2024.
This exciting initiative by Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet (MoBBallet) founder Theresa Ruth Howard presents the works of established Black choreographers including Donald Byrd, Jennifer Archibald, and Kiyon Ross, and early-career makers Meredith Rainey and Portia Adams, who are creating in the idiom of ballet. This program will be performed by 15 international Black Ballet artists from preeminent ballet companies across the country.
This performance took place on July 31-August 4, 2024.
2023 Pillow Lab resident Camille A. Brown returns to the roots of her own dance company, presenting and dancing in the world premiere of I AM which centers Black joy, celebrates the past, and boldly pushes into the future.
Inside/Out: Leonardo Sandoval/Parangolé Collective
Aug 23, 2017
Brazilian tap dancer Leonardo Sandoval, described by the Chicago Sun-Times as “strong yet fine-boned, capable of authority and nuance,” is quickly gaining a reputation in the tap world and beyond for his musicality and for adding his own Brazilian flavor to tap dancing.
Brian Brooks’ Viewpoint FREE | January 11 & 25, February 8 & 22, 2024 Choreographer Brian Brooks has been developing Viewpoint, a visionary project that uses…
Aug 18, 2017
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.