They move in bare feet, laughing, advancing, with a core strength they hold like a keynote. On the opening night of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, five dancers from Kyle Marshall Choreography are performing Onyx.
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Come here the music play! — #Berkshiresummer
‘What good is sitting alone in your room’ … Summer is opening all around us. As Cabaret takes the stage at Barrington stage Company, Tanglewood and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival are stirring.
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Juneteenth celebrates global Black American music — #Berkshireweekend
Guitar and percussion are racing, warm and complex as a river in the rain, and Tendai Muparutsa is singing songs he grew up knowing … laughing, drawing in the audience to clap, playing the rhythms against one another.
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We belong to the light, we belong to the thunder — #Berkshireweekend
A silvery stag’s antlers spindle into leaves, and I wonder what makes the patterns in them … or in lightening. I’d driven south through a thunderstorm to look for sculpture in Edith Wharton’s gardens.
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Hot shades in the summertime … — #Berkshireweekend
A collage of conversations explore honesty, communication and silence in Joseph Grigely’s In What Way Wham? White Noise and Other Works,’ at Mass MoCA.
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Lights, color, action — Chesterwood opens in film and Pride week — #Berkshire Weekend
The stone glows like alabaster channeled by waterfalls of glass. On an afternoon bright enough to be summer, sculptor Ron Mehlman has come to Chesterwood at the opening of his solo show.
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Let’s do the time warp again — #Berkshireweekend
The warmer days seem to have lifted the energy in the hills, and our creative places are absorbing it from the world around them — and this weekend, events are flying.
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Candidly we need to cultivate our gardens … — #Berkshireweekend
The strawberry plants are small enough to hold in a palm, but some of them have blossoms forming. I’m cupping them in my hands and pressing them gently into the earth.
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Fresh cheese and sourdough: Farmers markets and plant sales — #Berkshireweekend
And suddenly it’s May. We feel the change coming for weeks, fizzing in catkins and lapping up the lower slopes — and then the sun comes out and the maples open their leaves, and the world turns green again.
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You’re going to meet some gentle people there — #Berkshireweekend
Naumkeag’s annual spring festival is far enough along that the daffodils are wide open and just starting to give ground, and the tulips are all in full blow.
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