Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival 2024
Miguel Gutierrez
July 17, 2024 | Henry J. Leir Stage
Shaping empathetic and boundary-pushing spaces for queer and trans people of color to dream, Miguel Gutierrez, a living legend of contemporary dance in New York’s downtown scene, brings his latest music project sueño, a captivating fusion of dancers and live musicians, to Jacob’s Pillow.
Social Tango Project
July 17-21, 2024 | Ted Shawn Theatre
Providing “a journey into the heart of Tango” (La Nación Newspaper), Social Tango Project offers a stunning interactive and immersive dance performance that blends movement and live music with cinematic documentary film projection, offering a colorful window into tango’s power to create and maintain social cohesion at times of political unrest.
Annie Hanauer Dance
July 18, 2024 | Henry J. Leir Stage
Drawing from her experiences as a person with a disability, Annie Hanauer Dance disrupts assumptions of the dancing body, advocating for inclusivity and accessibility and exploring themes of power, wisdom, and resilience through deeply connected movement. In A Space for All Our Tomorrows, she imagines a utopian space for all bodies to share.
INSPIRIT
July 19, 2024 | Henry J. Leir Stage
Emphasizing collaboration and community engagement, INSPIRIT strives to create and sustain social change through dance’s transformative power. Founding Artistic Director Christal Browns’ latest project What We Ask of Flesh, developed in her 2021 Pillow Lab residency, explores human stories through soundscapes and physicality.
The School at Jacob's Pillow Contemporary Performance Ensemble
July 20, 2024 | Henry J. Leir Stage
Performances by The School at Jacob’s Pillow Performance Ensemble provide an inside look at The School experience and feature repertoire created on the dancers by leading choreographers who serve as program faculty.
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Intent on legitimizing dance in America as an honorable career for men, choreographer and dancer Ted Shawn founded Jacob’s Pillow in 1931.
“Thousands of people, of all ages, from across the United States and the world, have Jacob’s Pillow to thank for opening their horizons to dance.”
awarding Jacob’s Pillow with a 2010 National Medal of Arts
Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers in Dance of the Ages, 1938; Photo Shapiro Studios
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