Press Room

May 5, 2026 | Jacob’s Pillow Announces Full Roster of Performers For 2026 Season Opening Gala

April 9, 2026 | Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Announces Full Schedule of Events for its 94th Summer Season June 24 – August 30, 2026

April 3, 2026 | Jacob’s Pillow Announces Percussive Trio Soles of Duende Will Perform April 24-26 in Place of Compañía Irene Rodríguez

March 24, 2026 | New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Tiler Peck to Receive 2026 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award as Part of The Season’s Celebration of Groundbreaking Women in Dance

February 18, 2026 | Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Announces 10 Weeks of Summer Performances on Indoor and Outdoor Stages June 24 – August 30, 2026

February 3, 2026 | Jacob’s Pillow Expands Year-Round Programming To Include First-Ever Spring Season And New Online Dance Education Courses

November 18, 2025 | Jacob’s Pillow Announces First Wave of Programming For the 94th International Festival

November 10, 2025 | The School at Jacob’s Pillow Announces Summer 2026 Dance Program Offerings

October 15, 2025 | Jacob’s Pillow Launches First-Ever Winter Dance Intensive, Dance Your Purpose, Led by Program Director Maleek Washington January 5-11, 2026

September 29, 2025 | Jacob’s Pillow Announces Dr. Sarah Nguyễn As First-Ever Director of Archives

September 24, 2025 | Jacob’s Pillow Continues Year Round Programming with Announcement of 2025-2026 Pillow Lab Residency Artists and Schedule of Events

September 19, 2025 | Jacob’s Pillow Announces First-Ever Fall Performance Weekend Featuring Caleb Teicher & Nic Gareiss October 24-26 in the Newly-Opened Doris Duke Theatre

September 11, 2025 | Jacob’s Pillow Announces Gerald Casel As New Carole and Dan Burack Director of The School at Jacob’s Pillow

August 5, 2025 | Statement on Changes to Programming for Festival 2025

August 5, 2025 | Jacob’s Pillow’s Campus is Closed to the Public Today

August  2, 2025 | ​​Statement on Tragic Accident at Jacob’s Pillow

July 28, 2025 | ​​At Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Shamel Pitts | TRIBE Will Dance Touch of RED in the New Doris Duke Theatre, a Performance Five Years in the Making

July 21, 2025 | Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Presents Sekou McMiller & Friends in Their Ted Shawn Theatre Debut Korean Star Choreographer Eun-Me Ahn Brings the U.S. Premiere of Dragons to the Doris Duke Theatre

July 14, 2025 | Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Presents Stephen Petronio Company in the Ted Shawn Theatre as Company Sunsets on its 40th Anniversary

July 10, 2025 | Jacob’s Pillow Celebrates America’s New Theater For Dance With Announcement of $1 Million In New Investment From Massachusetts

July 9, 2025 | Doris Duke Theatre Opens At Jacob’s Pillow–Leading Venue for Dance in the United States

July 3, 2025 | Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Presents Inaugural Performance Week in the New Doris Duke Theatre Featuring the World Premiere of Andrew Schneider’s HERE

June 26, 2025 | Reimagined Doris Duke Theatre to Open at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival With Special Week of Celebrations

June 19, 2025 |  Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Welcomes Los Angeles-based BODYTRAFFIC for Ted Shawn Theatre Debut

June 12, 2025 | Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Kicks Off Historic 93rd Season With The Center Will Not Hold: A Dorrance Dance Production

May 23, 2025 | Jacob’s Pillow to present Sekou McMiller & Friends’ “Afro Latin Jazz and Soul Experience” Community Dance Residency in Pittsfield June 12-15

May 8, 2025 |  Jacob’s Pillow Announces Free Livestreams All Summer

April 22, 2025 | Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Presents the Return of Pillow Pride Weekend After Five-Year Hiatus

April 10, 2025 |  Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Announces Full Schedule of Events for its Historic 93rd Summer Season

March 27, 2025 | Jacob’s Pillow Director of Preservation Norton Owen to Receive 2025 Dance Award

February 27, 2025 | Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Announces Nine Weeks of Outdoor Performances June 25 through August 23

February 12, 2025 | Jacob’s Pillow Announces New Festival 2025 Artists Performing June 25 – August 24