The company holds a dancer upward, and she raises her arms as though she is moving into the lift of the trees — Tulsa Ballet is dancing on the outdoor stage in the last week of this summer’s festival at Jacob’s Pillow.
Read articleCompagnie Käfig dances with a universe of light
Compagnie Käfig performs their signature work, Pixel, in the newly renovated Ted Shawn Theatre, as world-class hip hop dancers navigate a digital world.
Read articleMoving right along — Tony Sarg gives puppets an artist’s hands
Tony Sarg has come a long way to reach the Norman Rockwell Museum this summer. An artist and illustrator in Germany, London and New York, he influenced puppetry across America — even to the Muppets.
Read articleCh-ch-changes — Complexions transforms Ballet
One dancer spins to another, extending toward the milky way, and lifts into the sky … Internationally acclaimed Complexions Contemporary Ballet comes to Jacob’s Pillow with new work and Star Dust, their tribute to rock icon David Bowie.
Read articleJacob’s Pillow celebrates 50 years of Hip Hop
Contemporary Hip Hop artists celebrate the form’s emergence in the Bronx in the 1980s with community, loyalty, challenge and laughter and glorious comedy, as acrobatic as astronauts in in zero gravity.
Read articleBeninois artist Georges Adéagbo invokes Abraham Lincoln
An internationally acclaimed artist crosses the Atlantic to open a site-specific work, ‘Create to Free Yourselves: Abraham Lincoln and the History of Freeing Slaves in America,’ a mosaic of ideas, stories, music and sculpture at Chesterwood.
Read articleMapping wonder in West Stockbridge — #berkshireexperience
I’m looking at the bin of old maps at Shaker Mill Books in West Stockbridge and thinking, how would I draw a map of these hills, and what would I put in? When you have an afternoon in West Stockbridge to explore, how do you find unexpected places?
Read articleInside scoops with chocolate and cherry ripple — #berkshireweekend
Chocolate cherry ice cream — this is new. The cream comes from here, from High Lawn Farm. The ice cream stand opened four years ago, but according to a flier as I pick up my cone, the dairy farm has just celebrated their 100th summer.
Read articleStone formations shapeshift on Tyringham Cobble
The sun is high — a rare afternoon in this rainy summer — and the path begins in the open, but I’ll have shade on the hill. I’m walking in the meadow at the foot of Tyringham Cobble.
Read articleSéan Curran and Darrah Carr hold a contemporary Irish Céilí
Irish music and dance have come to Jacob’s Pillow, as Séan Curran and Darrah Carr’s companies meet in Ceilidh — in a language that feels both international and contemporary.
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