Virtual PillowTalk:
Innovating Across Digital and Live Performance

Join us for a virtual PillowTalk, hosted live on Zoom on January 24, featuring Shamel Pitts and Andrew Schneider, two visionary artists performing in the new Duke in 2025.

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Apply to be an Intern at Jacob’s Pillow

Bring your passion for the arts to work at Jacob's Pillow. Apply for the Summer Festival Intern Program by February 3.

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MASS MoCA Co-Presentation:
No Rule Is Our Rule with Eiko Otake

Join us at MASS MoCA for a moving film that tells a story of friendship between two independent female artists and the body memories that each carries.

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Encore Stream:
Social Tango Project

Social Tango Project from Buenos Aires, Argentina takes you on “a journey into the heart of Tango” (La Nación Newspaper) in a special Encore Stream on Jacob’s Pillow Live, streaming for free from January 3–24, 2025.

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Discover Announced
Inaugural Artists of the new Doris Duke Theatre

Learn more about the inaugural artists to perform in the new Doris Duke Theatre, opening July 2025.

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The School at
Jacob's Pillow:
2025 Programs

The School at Jacob’s Pillow is where dance artists evolve their distinct artistic voices while forming career connections that advance their work in the field.

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Members are essential partners in our work to support dance.

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Host Your Event at Jacob's Pillow

We offer beautiful, unique spaces for weddings and special events all year.

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More Digital Offerings

Delve into our dance legacy through a vast array of digital offerings.

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An ever-growing collection of dance videos filmed at Jacob’s Pillow from the 1930s to today.

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In the Community

Engage in our community programs connecting participants of all ages to the physical, emotional, intellectual, and inspirational world of dance.

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Opportunities for Artists

Visionary artists are supported through the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award and the Pillow Lab, while emerging artists can apply to perform on our outdoor Henry J. Leir stage.

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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.

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“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.”

President Barack Obama

awarding Jacob’s Pillow with a 2010 National Medal of Arts