Jacob's Pillow Dance

Anna-Marie Holmes

Ballet Program Director • June 14-27

Artistic director, choreographer, master teacher, and celebrated ballerina,  Anna-Marie Holmes, is an internationally acclaimed dance luminary. Her interpretations of the Russian classics have been staged in more than thirty countries on five continents. Le Corsaire, which she staged for American...

Karole Armitage

Ballet Program Faculty and Gala Guest Choreographer • June 14-20

Karole Armitage is director of the New York-based Armitage Gone! Dance  Company. After dancing in George Balanchine's Geneva Ballet (1973-1975) and with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (1976-1981), she developed a unique choreographic style. Christened by Vanity Fair as 'Punk...

Kee-Juan Han

Ballet Program Faculty • June 16-18

Kee-Juan Han is School Director of The Washington School of Ballet. From 1993 to 2003, he directed The School of Ballet Arizona. His dance career began in his native Singapore, where he began his training at age 10 with Florrie...

Adam Sklute

Ballet Program Faculty • June 20-27

Adam Sklute is Artistic Director of Ballet West following a 25-year career as a dancer with The Joffrey Ballet which began under Robert Joffrey. He served as Assistant Ballet Master/Artistic Coordinator prior to his appointment at Ballet West in 2007....

Nina Ananiashvili

Ballet Program Master Class Faculty • June 27

Nina Ananiashvili and The State Ballet of Georgia will perform at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival June 23-27....

Virginia Johnson

Ballet Master Class Faculty • June 16-18

Virginia Johnson, a founding member and principal dancer with Dance Theatre  of Harlem, became Artistic Director of the company in January 2010. She is the former editor in chief of Pointe magazine. Johnson joined Dance Theatre of Harlem in 1969...

Ramona Pansegrau

Ballet Program Music Director • June 14-20

Ramona Pansegrau became musical director and conductor for Kansas City  Ballet in 2006. Prior to that, she had been music director for Tulsa Ballet for nine years and conductor of the Tulsa Symphony orchestra for ballet performances. She was principal...

Felix Ventouras

Music Director • June 20-27

Felix Ventouras' music has been performed at the Meyerson Symphony Center,  The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, and Mercyhurst College, and premiered at the Music Festival of the Hamptons, the National Arts Club, Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln Center, and the Joyce...

Dianne Walker

Tap Program Director • June 28-July11

A performer in the Tony Award-winning Black and Blue, Walker had the  prestigious honor of being the only female in its famed Hoofers Line. Her film credits include the movie Tap and PBS Great Performances: Tap Dance in America. A...

Harold Cromer

Tap Program Guest Artist • July 5-11

Harold Cromer began his career as a tap dancer on roller skates at the Hudson  Guild. As a teenager, Cromer landed a role in Cole Porter's Du Barry was a Lady with Bert Lahr, Ethel Merman, and Betty Grable. He...

Derick K. Grant

Tap Program Faculty • June 28-July 4

Derick K. Grant has worked as performer, choreographer, and director for over three decades. Under the direction of two time Tony Award winning director George C. Wolfe, he was an original company member and Dance Captain for Bring In 'Da...

Ray Hesselink

Tap Program Faculty • July 5-11

Ray Hesselink is a Director/Choreographer living and working in New York City. Hesselink has presented choreography at various festivals and venues around New York City, most recently at the New York Musical Theater Festival and Tap City. As a performer,...

Tasha Lawson

Tap Program Faculty • June 28-July 4

Tasha Lawson is Artistic Director of Tri-Tone Productions, a dance company offering interdisciplinary solo and ensemble performance works in the mediums of Body Percussion, Tap, and Contemporary Dance. Lawson's body percussion technique, transcribing tap vocabulary into body rhythms, is taught...

Paul Arslanian

Tap Program Music Director • June 28-July11

Paul Arslanian is a professional pianist, composer, and dance accompanist.  In 1979, Arslanian co-founded the Jazz Tap Ensemble and, as music director, worked with Honi Coles, Foster Johnson, Cookie Cook, Eddie Brown, Harold and Fayard Nicholas, and many other tap...

Sarah Reich

Assistant to Harold Cromer • June 28-July 4

Sarah Reich has assisted tap legend Harold Cromer for the past five years at  festivals such as Tap City, St. Louis Tap Festival, Chicago Human Rhythm Project, and Los Angeles Tap Festival. She has studied with Alfred Desio, Cyd Glover,...

Pedro Ruiz

Ballet Faculty for Contemporary Program • July 25-August 1

Pedro Ruiz trained in his native Cuba and in Venezuela. While a principal  dancer with Ballet Hispanico, Ruiz choreographed three celebrated ballets, and subsequently has choreographed for other companies, including The Joffrey. He teaches master classes regularly at Alvin Ailey...

Milton Myers

Contemporary Program Director • July 12-August 1

Milton Myers performed with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and was  Director of the Trisler Danscompany for six years. He has taught for the Ballet Hispanico, New Danish Dance Theatre, Les Ballet Jazz de Montreal, Batsheva, Matthew Bourne's Male...

Ronald K. Brown

Contemporary Program Guest Artist Choreographer • July 12-18

Ronald K. Brown is the founder and artistic director of Evidence DanceCompany, based in Brooklyn, New York. Brown's choreography is in high demand. He has set works on Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey II, Cleo Parker Robinson Ensemble, Dayton...

Carla Maxwell

Contemporary Program Faculty • July 12-18

Carla Maxwell joined the Limón Dance Company in 1965. She soon became a  principal dancer and, in 1975, served as Assistant Artistic Director under Ruth Currier. Maxwell was appointed Artistic Director in 1978, and during her tenure the Company has...

Janet Panetta

Ballet Faculty for Contemporary Program • July 12-18

After training with Antony Tudor, Margaret Craske and Alfredo Corvino, Janet Panetta danced with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. Performing in modern and post modern companies, she was called "one of the best performers in fifty years"...

Igal Perry

Ballet Faculty for Contemporary Program • July 19-25

Israeli born Igal Perry is Founder and Artistic Director of Peridance Center in  New York City. Perry began his dance career with Bat-Dor Dance Company of Israel. He spent a year in Holland studying with Richard Gibson at Netherlands Dance...

Hofesh Shechter

Contemporary Program Guest Artist Choreographer • July 26-August 1

Hofesh Shechter is one of the United Kingdom's most exciting artists,  recognized as both a choreographer and composer. Born in Jerusalem, Hofesh graduated from Jerusalem Academy for Dance and Music before joining Batsheva Dance Company. After his choreographic debut, Fragments,...

Ami Shulman

Contemporary Program Faculty • July 19-25

Ami Shulman was born and raised in South Africa and graduated with Honors  with a B.A. in Performing Arts from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She has been based in Montréal since 2001 and has worked prolifically in diverse aspects...

Didy Veldman

Contemporary Program Guest Artist Choreographer • July 19-25

Dutch choreographer Didy Veldman trained in numerous techniques at Scapino Academy in Amsterdam. Following her training, she danced with Scapino Ballet, Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, and Rambert Dance Company; working with choreographers such as Jirí Kylián, Mats Ek,...

John Levis

Contemporary Program Music Director • July 12-August 1

John Levis, a native Philadelphian, is a composer-pianist and synthesist who has been involved with the Philadelphia dance community since 1971. It was after his graduation magna cum laude from the Philadelphia Musical Academy (now University of the Arts) in...

Chet Walker

Jazz/Musical Theatre Dance Program Director • August 2-23

A performer on Broadway since the age of sixteen, Chet Walker has appeared  most prominently in the musicals of Bob Fosse. Conceiver of the Tony Award-winning musical Fosse, he is an international director choreographer, and artistic director of WALKERDANCE. His...

Bill Hastings

Jazz/Musical Theatre Dance Program Guest Artist Faculty • TBA

Bill Hastings has performed in over 40 musicals and plays including Broadway and national touring productions of The Most Happy Fella, A Chorus Line, Cabaret, Rags, Bob Fosse's Dancin' and Sweet Charity. Hastings has choreographed more than 40 productions for...

Timothy Kasper

Yoga Instructor and Assistant to the Jazz/Musical Theatre Dance Program Director • August 2-23

Timothy Kasper is an actor, choreographer, dancer, director, singer, and  teacher. He has collaborated on more than 50 musical productions, nationally and internationally. As a facilitator and teacher, he has privately coached a wide range of performing artists and athletes...

Dana Moore

Jazz/Musical Theatre Dance Guest Artist Faculty • TBA

Dana Moore was last seen on Broadway in the smash hit Chicago. If you  missed her in the Broadway production of Fosse, you can catch her on the DVD. A veteran Fosse dancer, Moore worked directly with Bob Fosse as...

Russ Nyberg

Russ Nyberg is a freelance drummer/percussionist based in New York City. He has performed in over 30 local musical theater productions in the Seattle and New York metropolitan areas. He has also toured the U.S., Canada and internationally with Chicago...

Teri Ralston

Jazz/Musical Theatre Dance Program Guest Vocal Coach • TBA

Teri Ralston recently moved back to New York. Since her return, she hasperformed in a workshop of Natural Woman with director Michael Blakemore, appeared in Hats, Unbeatable, Bajour at the York Theatre, and Marcie in the Galaxy with Transport Group....

Ric Ryder

Jazz/Musical Theatre Dance Program Vocal Coach • TBA

Ric Ryder performed on Broadway in The Music Man, Grease, and Blood  Brothers, among others. He appeared Off-Broadway in A New Brain, The Jazz Singer, Chess, and Gifts of the Magi. Ryder can be heard singing on voiceovers in television...

Steve Marzullo

Jazz/Musical Theatre Dance Program Music Director • August 2-23

Steve Marzullo received his training at the Manhattan School of Music. His  New York credits include: musical director for Once On This Island, Working (Actors' Fund) and Having It Almost (NYMF); associate conductor for Mamma Mia, Seussical, Grease (1st revival),...

Jerry Leake

Jerry Leake is co-founder of the acclaimed world-music ensemble Natraj. He also performs with Club d'Elf, R.A.R.E, and the Agbekor Society. He is featured on dozens of CDs and has released several recordings of his own music including "Cubist" which has...

Celeste Miller

Choreographers Lab Program Co-Director • August 24-31

Renowned for her solo performance and choreographic projects developed in  collaboration with participants, Celeste Miller is a pioneering artist educator. She is recipient of a Choreographer's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, co-author and choreographer for the national...

Lisa Donovan

Choreographers Lab Program Co-Director • August 24-31

A theatre artist, educator, and arts-based researcher, Lisa Donovan is  Associate Professor and Director of the Creative Arts in Learning Division at Lesley University. Donovan has presented her work at national and international conferences including the Qualitative Inquiry Group in...