Join us this summer for community workshops and events around the Berkshires!
Explore our Festival 2024 programming, including morning classes, workshops with festival artists, garden tours, pop-up performances, and more.
College Partnership Program
College students and educators are invited to use the Pillow’s resources year-round. Partners engage in the artistic process by attending Pillow Lab residency showings and find support for their academic research in the Archives.
Learn moreDance Education Laboratory (DEL) at Jacob's Pillow
Jacob’s Pillow collaborates with the Dance Education Laboratory (DEL) and becomes a satellite of the nationally renowned dance teacher education program. Founded by Jody Gottfried Arnhold and designed to serve as a practical alternative to traditional university dance education programs, DEL addresses the needs of professional dancers, dance teachers, classroom teachers, and dance students. Learn about upcoming workshops!
Learn moreJACOB’S PILLOW CURRICULUM IN MOTION™
Drawing upon K-12 academic topics as source material, choreographic works are developed by students through a co-teaching process between classroom teachers and the Pillow's roster of prominent Artist Educators.
Learn moreJACOB’S PILLOW CURRICULUM IN MOTION™ INSTITUTE
A year-long intensive training program in the Curriculum in Motion™ method: a co-creative workshop/residency model applying choreographers’ methods to the curriculum, question, issue or theme of a community partner.
Learn moreDANCE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE™
Dance for Social Justice™ is an ongoing initiative, with no upcoming ways to participate at this time.
An interactive process of learning, facilitated community conversations, and co-created responses to social justice concerns in our community, giving community members space to share their voice, movement, and skills in a co-creative process.
Learn morePittsfield Moves!
Pittsfield Moves! is an ongoing initiative, with no upcoming ways to participate at this time.
A collaboration between Jacob’s Pillow and The Berkshire Bridges – Working Cities Pittsfield Initiative, this year-long project supports local stakeholders in developing a practice of storytelling and relationship building through movement.
Learn moreHow Does Your Community Move?
“When we think about how our community moves we should also think about how our nation has moved and what has stopped it. What do we do to get our nation moving? We choose love, not hate. We choose inclusiveness, not exclusiveness.”
Dennis Powell, President of NAACP Berkshire County Branch
“My community moves through the connections that create the foundation of hope so we can plant seeds together. Doing this work is a necessity. It’s a survival strategy. Because of all the ugliness, we have to create beauty.”
Anaelisa Jacobsen, Founder of Manos Unidas Multicultural Educational Cooperative
“My community right now is moving in an eye-opening direction. There are some areas where we’re not moving very well. But around me my community is moving very well. Because of my community, I feel like I’m leaving my old skin for new skin, like a snake.”
JOSE BRUNO SANTIAGO, Manos Unidas MEMBER FOR 9 YEARS