Doris Duke Theatre Open House & Community Pop-Up
At Doris Duke Theatre: Jul 6
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Doris Duke Theatre Open House
Sunday, July 6, 2025 | Doris Duke Theatre
This first look at the new Doris Duke Theatre will feature free events and tours of the building, the opening of the inaugural exhibition, and more. Tours will run every half hour.
Schedule of Events
1pm: Jacob’s Pillow will launch a new commissioned digital work from Andrew Schneider: an immersive sound experience that crossfades with reality. Audiences will access this experience using their own devices and headphones as they navigate the world around them. This self-guided audio walking tour will be available throughout the Festival.
1:30pm: Celebrations continue with a community-sourced pop-up performance of Optimistic! choreographed by Camille A. Brown.
Interested in participating in the performance? Contact [email protected] (all ages and experience levels are welcome)
2:30pm: Visitors are invited to gather in the Jameson Family Lobby for the opening of two exhibits, with brief remarks by the artists and curators:
- The unveiling of To Touch a Wide Span, a work by Cherokee artist Brenda Mallory created for the new Doris Duke Theatre, commissioned by Jacob’s Pillow.
- Free entry into Dancing the Algorithm, an exhibit curated by Katherine Helen Fisher for the new Doris Duke Theatre Gallery, featuring artists whose works illuminate how the dancing body doesn’t just adapt to technology, but shapes it, challenges it, and celebrates the new possibilities it creates. The exhibit includes Lamentation: Dancing the Archive, an installation inviting audiences to engage with a 360° film of Martha Graham’s iconic solo, created by Xin Ying with Katherine Helen Fisher, Alan Winslow, and Kate Ladenheim. The exhibit features works by Memo Akten, Lauren Bedal, Shimmy Boyle, Mingyong Cheng, Kianí Del Valle, Hamill Industries (Pablo Barquin and Anna Diaz), Nora Gibson, David Wallace Haskins, Katie Peyton Hofstadter, KAMBARA+ (Yayoi Kambara), Armon Naeini, Operator (Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti), Daniel Sierra, and others to be announced. The exhibit will remain open until 4:30pm on this day, and will remain open for Festival 2025. Learn more about exhibits at Jacob’s Pillow here.
Learn more about Brenda Mallory’s visual art in the Doris Duke Theatre in our blog post Interweaving Indigenous Principles: Visual Art and Landscape Design in the New Doris Duke Theatre.