Virtual Festival:
Performances

July 9

Celebrated as one of the world’s greatest modern dance groups, the Limón Dance Company marks its 75th anniversary this year. The company's Virtual Festival stream features performances from their 2018 performance, featuring Limón’s Chaconne, The Moor’s Pavane, and former Artistic Director Colin Connor’s Corvidae, inspired by the mystery and symbolism of crows.

July 16

Brisbane-based Circa is at the forefront of a new wave of contemporary Australian circus, creating awe-inspiring performance from extreme physicality, and has toured to 40 countries across six continents since 2004. Circa’s Virtual Festival stream features an excerpt from S, originally performed in the Ted Shawn Theatre in 2014.

July 23

Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE has deeply moved audiences for over 30 years, praised for a “sophisticated amalgam of Afrocentric movement and modern dance” (Los Angeles Times). A continued celebration and honoring of Brown as the Pillow's 2020 Dance Award Winner, EVIDENCE’S Virtual Festival stream highlights Brown’s deep history with the Pillow.

July 30

Revered as the world’s third oldest ballet company, the Royal Danish Ballet most recently returned to Jacob’s Pillow for the first time in over a decade to open Festival 2018 in the Ted Shawn Theatre. The company’s Virtual Festival stream features highlights from this recent performance including Giselle, A Folk Tale, and La Sylphide.

August 6

Dance Theatre of Harlem was founded in 1969 to create a new vision of ballet. Their Virtual Festival program highlights their recent 2019 Pillow performance and includes Darrel Grand Moultrie’s Harlem on My Mind; Christopher Wheeldon’s pas de deux This Bitter Earth; George Balanchine’s classic Valse Fantaisie; and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Balamouk. 

August 13

Founded in 2000, Bereishit Dance Company is a Seoul-based dance company that approaches Korean traditional culture from a contemporary view. In a rare U.S. performance, Bereishit made their Pillow debut in 2016. This Virtual Festival stream features the rigorous male duet BOW_CONTROL, and the intensely physical work Balance and Imbalance.

August 20

Tero Saarinen Company is based in Finland and in permanent residence at Helsinki’s Alexander Theatre, the former home of the Finnish National Opera and Ballet. The resonance of Borrowed Light‘s U.S. premiere in 2006 led to a rare return engagement as part of the Pillow’s 80th anniversary celebration in 2012.

August 27

Dormeshia, Derick K. Grant, and Jason Samuels Smith are three of the world's most influential ambassadors of tap. They came together at the Pillow in 2016 for a show that captured the heart and legacy of tap dance, featuring live music, dynamic choreography, stunning improvisation, and special guest dancer Camille A. Brown.