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Melissa Auf der Maur, The Rock Goddess in Our Midst, Appearing at Club Helsinki

This Saturday, March 12, Hudson's own Melissa Auf der Maur (aka MAdM) performs at Club Helsinki Hudson in a rare, experimental show—Hunt for the Heart—a mix of her own repertoire and tributes to those who have influenced her.  Born and raised in Montreal,  where she got

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Hot Ticket: The Metropolitan Opera on HD, Members First

Three locations in our region now screen the wildly popular Metropolitan Opera performances in High Definition. Now in its fifth year, this Peabody Award-winning series will present a record 12 live transmissions to theaters worldwide this opera season. Tickets go on sale as early as Friday, August 27th, but unless

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Word X Word Festival in Pittsfield

Saturday, August 21 - Sunday, August 29Can you stand yet another festival? Perhaps a brief description of Word X Word will entice you. Envision this upstart festival—which bills itself as a celebration of words written, spoken, and sung—as a mash-up of the recent Berkshire WordFest at The Mount,

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Review: The Göteborg Ballet at Jacob’s Pillow

Maurice Ravel’s Boléro is surely the Rodney Dangerfield of the classical music world; it gets no respect. So it’s understandable that a quick glance at the program offered by The Göteborg Ballet, 3xBoléro, might elicit a few groans. But when a deeper reading reveals that the troupe’s

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Review: Lucy Guerin Inc at Jacob’s Pillow

Australian choreographer Lucy Guerin keeps her six dancers very busy in her poignant, hour-long piece, Structure and Sadness, which was inspired by the collapse of Melbourne’s Westgate Bridge in 1970, a tragedy that killed 35 workmen. This incident looms over the work from the startling beginning, as what looks

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Review: Kyle Abraham/Abraham.in.Motion at Jacob’s Pillow

The last of three emerging choreographers given a Pillow Creative Development Residency is on stage this week at Jacob’s Pillow, and from Inventing Pookie Jenkins, the stunning solo he presented at the Pillow gala -- which is also on this week’s program -- it is easy to see

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Review: Trey McIntyre Project at Jacob's Pillow

Is it Basque week in the Berkshires? In the same week that Shakespeare & Company unveiled The Taster, a world premiere by Joan Ackermann that involves an ancient Basque play, Trey McIntyre Project waltzes in to Jacob’s Pillow with a new dance steeped in Basque culture. (And there may

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Review: Yin Mei at Jacob's Pillow

Choreographer Yin Mei demands a lot from her audience. Namely patience, and the same kind of concentration she and her dancers bring to their performance at Jacob’s Pillow of City of Paper, her multimedia work addressing her personal and cultural history. Yin is a native of Luoyang, China, a

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Review: CND2 at Jacob’s Pillow

In his final visual feast before stepping down as artistic director of the Madrid-based CND2 (Compañía Nacional de Danza 2), Nacho Duato has cooked up a tasty three-course meal at Jacob’s Pillow, though there seems to be a bit of confusion in the order of the courses. On Friday

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Review: Monica Bill Barnes at Jacob’s Pillow

Photos by Kristi Pitsch Pillow gala attendees uproariously laughed during a preview of new work by Monica Bill Barnes & Company that was co-commissioned by the Pillow and created in part during a Creative Development Residency here. In its engagement at the Pillow this week, the company presents three humorous

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Review: Bill T. Jones at Jacob’s Pillow

Photos by Paul B. GoodeChoreographers intending to create a dance about something, especially topics like politics or history, can often be soul-crushingly, boringly literal. Bill T. Jones is too smart, experienced, and talented to fall into that trap. So when you learn that his 2008 piece Serenade/The Proposition is

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Review: Pichet Klunchun Dance Company at Jacob’s Pillow

Who is Sita? This is the central question of Chui Chai, an hour-long work by Pichet Klunchun Dance Company, which continues its first run in the United States through Sunday at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. An attempt to bridge khon, the highly codified form of traditional Thai court dance,

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