Online Event:
PillowTalk: Ballet Coast to Coast
Released September 10
Mirroring the current performance program, this discussion recounts the 20th -century evolution of regional ballet and recent developments in the field.
Online Event:
PillowTalk: Ballet Coast to Coast
Released September 10
Mirroring the current performance program, this discussion recounts the 20th -century evolution of regional ballet and recent developments in the field.
Inside/Out: Micaela Taylor’s TL Collective
Jun 21, 2019 | TL Collective fuses contemporary dance and theatrical hip-hop with elements of groove and acrobatics, bringing high levels of athleticism to the stage. Artistic Director Micaela Taylor is highly acclaimed, including as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” and recent recipient of the Inaugural EMERGE Choreographic Award from Springboard Danse Montréal.
Inside/Out: It’s Showtime NYC!
Aug 10, 2018 | It’s Showtime NYC!, in only its third year of activity with now more than 25 members, has become one of the largest street dance companies in New York City. A program of Dancing in the Streets performed to celebrate New York City street culture, the group provides performance and professional development opportunities to street and subway dancers as a legal alternative to dancing in subway cars.
Aug 9, 2017
Showcasing high-octane physicality and combining elements of modern dance, hip-hop, floor work, and physical theater, the DASH Ensemble performs Ways to Handle, created by Artistic Director Gregory Dolbashian in collaboration with the artists of DASH.
Online Event:
PillowTalk: Elizabeth Streb
Released September 3
A true original in the performing arts, Streb discusses her concepts of extreme action, which challenge the assumptions of art, aging, injury, gender, and human possibility.
Jun 20, 2019 | Tap dancer and choreographer Luke Hickey, an alumnus of The School at Jacob’s Pillow, performs the percussive revue A Little Old, A Little New.
Inside/Out:
Sarah Elgart | Arrogant Elbow
Aug 9, 2018 | Sarah Elgart | Arrogant Elbow engages audiences by transforming and catalyzing stages, screens, and sites, and painting them with singular visuals and visceral movement drawn from the quotidian human experience. Inspired by the fact that light from a star is actually memory made visible, Shape of Memory is a roving, site-specific work that begins on the stage then moves through the Pillow grounds melding gravity, distance, and scale, to explore how memory inhabits the body and the self, the individual and the collective.
Inside/Out: Inlet Dance Theatre
Aug 4, 2017
From Cleveland, Ohio, Inlet Dance Theatre is a contemporary dance company founded in 2001 by choreographer and Executive/Artistic Director Bill Wade.
Online Event:
PillowTalk: The History of Jazz Dance
Released August 27
As a foremost tradition-bearer of Black American social dance, LaTasha Barnes places jazz dance in the context of House, Hip-Hop, Waacking, and Lindy Hop.
Inside/Out: Kotchegna Dance Company
Jun 19, 2019 | Performing in elaborate masks to the explosive percussion of a group of brilliant drummers, Kotchegna Dance Company brings to life the ancient stories and legends of Africa’s Ivory Coast, praised by The New York Times for “feverishly intricate rhythms from drummers who knew countless ways to subdivide a beat and make it jump.”