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Music

Kate Abbott
Internationally acclaimed Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer Mythili Prakash, from Los Angeles, performs holding out a lithe arm in deep blue light.
Photo by Jorge Vismara
Dance

Dancers re-imagine contemporary American experiences

June 15, 2022
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Dancers have told stories of Shiva and Kali for hundreds of years, and on a summer night, Mythili Prakash will embody them both … as Jacobs Pillow asks what it means to be American.

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Grammy-winning Zydeco musician Terrance Ximien performs on piano accordion in his Fulani hat from Mali, laughing in purple light.
Photo by James Dean
Music

Terrance Simien swings with Zydeco on Junteenth

June 15, 2022
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The washboard is flicking a quick carrying beat that shakes through you and pulls you to your feet — the accordion is rocking warm, and a low voice coasts over it, laughing …

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Wilco's Solid Sound festival takes over Mass MoCA and North Adams every two years in June.
Photo by Kaelan Burkett
Music

Memorial Day brings Solid Sound and fluid color

May 26, 2022
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The world is warming up this week, in some ways. Summer seasons are opening, and the Solid Sound festival is coming to Mass MoCA …

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Storm clouds gather in a brilliant sky over Performance Space 21.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Theater

Exploring Chatham N.Y. in a thunderstorm

May 18, 2022
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There’s something mysterious and unexpected about walking into a greenhouse in a thunderstorm. … I came through a door in Chatham Berry Farm and felt as though I’d walked into another universe.

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Kate Gobel as Ariel Moore looks for a hero with Emileigh Mickle as Rusty in Footloose with the Berkshire Theatre Group. Press photo courtesy of BTG.
Photo by Jacey Rae Russell
Theater

Footloose challenges a small town to grow

April 8, 2022
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He’s the minister in a midwestern town where dancing is illegal, and his daughter is becoming friends with the new kid who wants to change the law. Now his wife is looking him in the eye, trying to call out the man she used to recognize.

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The tuning pegs of an Oud, an Arab stringed instrument, show the curve of the instrument's wooden head. Creative Commons courtesy photo
Photo by Rod Waddington
Music

Live music converges from across the world

April 8, 2022
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The flute holds a long tone and turns it, and the sound flexes like a dancer. Two traditions are meeting here tonight from thousands of miles away.

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Tendai Muparutsa, leader of the Zambezi Marimba Band, is an internationally known performer and ethnomusicologist. Press photo courtesy of Williams College
Williams College
Music

Close your eyes and feel the music

March 1, 2022
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Glad rhythms — how can I describe the sound for you? Eight marimbas are cascading tones like summer rain. Within a few beats, most of the audience is on their feet.

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Rosi and Brian Amador perform as the Latin music duo Sol y Canto.
Sol y Canto
Southern Berkshires

Sol y Canto will bring improvisational music

February 21, 2022
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On a summer day, Rosi and Brian Amador were walking together on the pilgrim’s way, the Camino de Santiago in Northern Spain, and they were singing …

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Andy Wrba and Berkshire musicians perform Monday night jazz at Mission Tapas. Photo courtesy of Love Pittsfield and 10x10
Andy Wrba / Love Pittsfield
Community

We’re thawing into winter festivals

February 17, 2022
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The crowd was spilling onto the sidewalk, and a young man I’d never met came up to tell me how to say the name of the Polish poet I’d just been reading aloud …

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Doug Harris Maya Loren Jackson laugh together in Barrington Stage's annual 10x10 festival of 10 new short plays. Press photo courtesy of BSC
Photo Emma Rothenberg-Ware
Visual Arts

10×10 Festival

February 15, 2022
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The city in the hills is at play. The annual 10×10 Upstreet Arts Festival is in town, and you can watch a new play or an ice sculptor, listen to music and slide though the snow …

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