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Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival

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.

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

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.