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Review: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Shines in Story/Time

In 2010, Bill T. Jones was honored with the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award. This week, in the Ted Shawn Theatre, audiences saw indisputable evidence of why this award was bestowed upon him. Story/Time, a multimedia, full-evening work, is a 70-minute tour de force, showing Jones at the peak

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Jessica Lang Dance: Skirting the Issue

Jessica Lang, formerly a dancer with Twyla Tharp, made her full company debut this week at Jacob’s Pillow with an ambitious program of five dances – two solos and a duet, bookended by two ensemble works. What came through in the program, especially in this Pillow season during which most

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Dance: Moving Still, An Interview With Paul Taylor

Photos of dances by Paul B. Goodeby Scott Baldinger“I like to move.” This was the only thing the now-legendary dancer and choreographer Paul Taylor could think of saying, during an audition for a place at the Juilliard School more than 60 years ago, upon having been asked why he

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The Hong Kong Ballet: Strength in Numbers

Classical dance lovers had something to cheer about this week, as The Hong Kong Ballet made its Jacob’s Pillow debut. At the same time, so did fans of contemporary dance; the company’s artistic director since 2009, Madeleine Onne, formerly headed the Royal Swedish Ballet, and founded Stockholm 59°

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Tero Saarinen's Borrowed Light: A Luminous Evening of Dance at Jacob's Pillow

What better test of a dance that has blown you away than to see it again a few years later and find out if it still packs the same power? Happily, the lasting impression left by Tero Saarinen’s luminous work Borrowed Light, first performed at the Pillow in 2006,

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Vertigo Dance Company and LeeSaar The Company: Two Israeli Troupes at the Pillow

There’s drama in Vertigo Dance Company’s world premiere, Mana, which runs at Jacob’s Pillow’s Ted Shawn Theatre through Sunday, July 8, but the story remains out of reach. There are men in long, flowing, dark-colored robes, and women who begin the evening-length dance full draped in

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Dance Review - Morphoses at Jacob's Pillow: Whose Dream Is It, Anyway?

Most who entered the Ted Shawn Theatre this week to see the group Morphoses in the world premiere of WITHIN (Labyrinth Within) probably realized that the second half of the evening’s program would be Pontus Lidberg’s 2010 film, called Labyrinth Within. Lidberg also choreographed and designed the “live”

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Kidd Pivot Founder Crystal Pite, 2011 Jacob's Pillow Dance Award Recipient, Turns Heads

Note: A version of this interview was posted on July 5, 2011. It has been slightly updated to run in advance of Kidd Pivot's 2012 engagement at Jacob's Pillow. The Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award is no mere honor. In addition to the prestige of being

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Mimulus and Circa Open Jacob's Pillow: Give 'em Enough Rope

The Jacob’s Pillow 80th anniversary dance festival opened with two spectacular performances by Mimulus Dance Company, from Brazil in the Ted Shawn Theatre, and  Circa, from Australia, in the Doris Duke Theatre. The two troupes share more than just their home in earth’s southern hemisphere. Both companies also

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Spring for Sound in Millerton

Pop music lovers: grab a lawn chair, put on your dancing shoes, and head to Millerton on Saturday, June 16, when 19 musical acts are set to hit the stage for Spring for Sound, a rocking fundraiser to benefit the North East Community Center (NECC). This is the second year

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Aston Magna At 40: Still Going for Baroque

As Aston Magna, the summer music festival he founded in Great Barrington, readies for its 40th season, Lee Elman seems as if he were born to the role of Berkshires cultural patriarch. His parents Barney and Mildred were early supporters of Tanglewood, making weekend visits from Westchester County and contributing

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Festival Explores Interplay of Jewish and African-American Music

As every great American composer, from Gershwin to Duke Ellington to Leonard Bernstein, would have explained without missing a beat, Jewish and African-American music not only have a lot in common — they helped create the distinctly American art forms of jazz, blues, and popular music of yesterday and today. On

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