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Modesto Junior College dancers perform on the Inside / Out Stage at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Becket. Image courtesy of Jacob's Pillow

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Dancers with the Tulsa Ballet perform on the outdoor stage at Jacob's Pillow. Press photo courtesy of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
Photo by Jamie Krauss
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Tulsa Ballet holds earth and sky

August 26, 2023
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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.

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Dancers in Compagnie Käfig perform with lights in digital projections in in 'Pixel.' Press photo courtesy of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
Photo by Christopher Duggan
Dance

Compagnie Käfig dances with a universe of light

August 26, 2023
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Compagnie Käfig performs their signature work, Pixel, in the newly renovated Ted Shawn Theatre, as world-class hip hop dancers navigate a digital world.

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Complexions Contemporary Ballet performs 'Star Dust.' Press photo courtesy of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.
Photo by Jamie Kraus
Dance

Ch-ch-changes — Complexions transforms Ballet

August 12, 2023
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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.

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Joshua Culbreath stands on his hands in 'Nuttin' but a Word,' as Rennie Harris' Puremovement American Street Dance Theater celebrate 50 years of Hip Hop. Press photo courtesy of Jacob's Pillow
Photo by Jamie Kraus
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Jacob’s Pillow celebrates 50 years of Hip Hop

August 10, 2023
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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.

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Dana Lyn leaps as members of the companies lie prone on Sean Curran and Darrah Carr's Céilí. Press photo courtesy of Jacob's Pillow
Photo by Becca Oviatt
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Séan Curran and Darrah Carr hold a contemporary Irish Céilí

August 1, 2023
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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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Michelle Dorrance taps with Leo Sandoval and Addi Loving in Dorrance Dance's 45th and 8th. Press photo courtesy of Jacob's Pillow
Photo by Christopher Duggan
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Dorrance Dance propels percussive invention

July 24, 2023
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The impact resounds like a hickory stick on a dunun drum. Feet pound a sounding box. And then the sound quiets to a rocking like wind in palmetto, like thunder and heat lightening before the rain …

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AXIS Dance Company's Alaja Badalich and Janpi Star perform, one dancer in a wheelchair holding another in the air. Press photo courtesy of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
Photo by Hiromi Platt
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AXIS Dance embodies past and future stories

July 12, 2023
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Spanish guitar rolls in like waves. Two people turn to each other in intent exploration, shaken with the wonder of knowing another person is close enough and comfortable enough to touch …

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Jingling Mao and Jakob Feyferlik perform in Hans van Manen's Variations for Two Couples with the Dutch National Ballet. Press photo courtesy of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
Photo by Christopher Duggan
Dance

Vital energy propels Dutch National Ballet

July 7, 2023
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An evening of varied performances can give a deep sense of time — and potential energy — tracing ballet’s momentum and human connection across a hundred years.

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Timothy van Poucke and James Stout curve close together in Two and Only with the Dutch National Ballet.
Photo by Becca Oviatt
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Dutch National Ballet interacts with new forces at Jacob’s Pillow

July 7, 2023
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A bass voice lingers over low piano chords, and two men take each other’s weight in a fluid, balancing tension … as 80 dancers from around the world come together to explore the power and beauty, form and precision of their art.

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Mica Bernas and Brandon Randolph touch hands in a vibrantly colorful company of Mark Morris dancers performing The Look of Love. Photo courtesy of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
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Mark Morris’ Look of Love illuminates Burt Bacharach

July 4, 2023
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‘What the world needs now is love … not just for some, but for everyone.’ On a night between storms, that refrain shifts in resonance. At Jacob’s Pillow, the Mark Morris Dance Group is offering an homage.

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