Dust Bowl Faeries (photo Noah Fowler)
ETHEREAL GOTHIC-FOLK DOUBLE BILL FEATURING MELORA CREAGER and RYDER COOLEY at CAFFE LENA
(SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.) – Ryder Cooley & Dust Bowl Faeries and Melora & Luis, featuring Melora Creager of Rasputina, will perform a double bill of original, ethereal gothic-folk at Caffe Lena on Saturday, June 27, at 8pm. Melora & Luis are Melora Creager, the founder/leader of the all-cello rock group Rasputina, and Luis Mojica, the internationally renowned pianist and experimental vocalist. Dust Bowl Faeries is an electro-acoustic, multimedia gothic-folk ensemble led by artist-musician Ryder Cooley and featuring Sara Ayers, Karen Cole, Jen DuBois, JoAnn Stevelos, and Hazel, a transgender taxidermy sheep.
Piero della Francesca’s ‘Angels’
PS21 KICKS OFF with 10th ANNUAL ALL-BACH PROGRAM
(CHATHAM, N.Y.) – PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century opens its 2015 summer season with the Tenth Annual Paul Grunberg Memorial Bach Concert on Sunday, June 28, at 2pm. This year’s all-Bach program features the Broad Street Chorale and Orchestra directed by David Smith, performing works of Johann Sebastian Bach for chorus, orchestra, and both vocal and instrumental soloists. A Gala Opening Reception for the festival will follow the performance.
David Adkins as Thoreau (photo Michael J Riha)
ONE-MAN SHOW on THOREAU GETS PREMIERE at BTG
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – “Thoreau or, Return to Walden,” a world premiere written and performed by David Adkins, is now running at the Berkshire Theatre Group’s Unicorn Theatre through Saturday, July 11, at 8pm. In this one-man show, Adkins takes the stage as New England Transcendentalist, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau.
Ballet BC Dancer Andrew Bartee (photo Michael Slobodian)
CANADIAN CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE BALLET BC OPENS JACOB’S PILLOW SEASON
(BECKET, Mass.) – Canada’s premier contemporary ballet company, Ballet BC, kicks off this summer’s Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival with a diverse program in the Ted Shawn Theatre, from Wednesday, June 24, through Sunday, June 28. Led by artistic director Emily Molnar, former soloist of Ballet Frankfurt and principal of Ballet BC, the company performs works including “workwithinwork” by William Forsythe; Spanish choreographer Cayetano Soto’s sleek and edgy “Twenty Eight Thousand Waves,” and Gustavo Ramírez Sansano’s “Consagración,” set to Igor Stravinsky’s landmark score, “The Rite of Spring.”
Clifford Ross, Mountain IV, 6/2003, Chromogenic Print, Mount Sopris by Clifford Ross using the R1 camera he invented.
CLIFFORD ROSS CAREER SURVEY SPRAWLS ACROSS MASS MoCA CAMPUS
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Not to be overlooked this weekend with all the well-earned hype surrounding Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival, a major mid-career museum survey at MASS MoCA, “Landscape Seen and Imagined,” documents Clifford Ross’s longstanding project to reconcile realism and abstraction. The exhibition takes place throughout two buildings, six galleries, and an exterior performing arts courtyard. Among other works, the exhibition includes a 24 ft. high x 114 ft. long photograph on raw wood that spans the length of MASS MoCA’s tallest gallery, and an immersive installation of animated video on twelve separate 24 ft. high screens.
Man of La Mancha (photo Kevin Sprague)
‘MAN OF LA MANCHA’ KICKS OFF BARRINGTON STAGE SEASON
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Tony Award-winning musical “Man of La Mancha” has opened the mainstage season at Barrington Stage Company to rave reviews. The often underestimated and overlooked show runs through Saturday, July 11, on the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage. Inspired by Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright Miguel de Cervantes’ 17th-century masterpiece “Don Quixote,” “Man of La Mancha” tells a story rich in chivalry, romance, idealism, tilting at windmills, and dreaming “The Impossible Dream.”
Scott Barrow by Scott Barrow
EXHIBITION SHOWCASES FOUR DECADES of SCOTT BARROW’S PHOTOGRAPHY
(LENOX, Mass.) – “The First Forty,” a summer-long exhibition celebrating the first four decades of Scott Barrow’s life and work in photography, opens at Scott Barrow Photography on Saturday, June 27, with a reception from 5 to 7pm. The work will remain on display through Labor Day.
Pam Tanowitz Dance (photo Christopher Duggan)
PAM TANOWITZ DANCE MAKES BARD SUMMERSCAPE DEBUT
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, NY) – Pam Tanowitz Dance makes its Bard SummerScape debut with a triple bill featuring a world premiere solo for Ashley Tuttle and live music by the FLUX Quartet in the Fisher Center at Bard College on Saturday, June 27, and Sunday, June 28. The program showcases the choreography of Bessie Award-winning Pam Tanowitz, and includes the world premiere of Tanowitz’s “Untitled (solo for Ashley Tuttle),” set to music by Mexico’s Carlos Cha?vez – subject of the 2015 Bard Music Festival – and danced by former American Ballet Theatre principal Ashley Tuttle. Bookending the new work are two of Tanowitz’s most recent ensemble pieces, “Broken Story (wherein there is no ecstasy)” and “Heaven on One’s Head,” named “Among 2014’s Best” by the New York Times, with live music from FLUX Quartet.
Tom Rush (photo Bill Campbell)
TOM RUSH to PLAY TWO-NIGHT STAND at GUTHRIE CENTER
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Legendary singer-songwriter Tom Rush will perform at two-night stand at the Guthrie Center on Friday and Saturday, June 26-27, at 8pm both nights. Rush has been called one of New England’s favorite musical sons, “the consummate contemporary folk musician,” and “the man with the golden ear,” for having early on recorded songs by then-unknown songwriters including Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne and James Taylor.
Tom Gold Dance (photo Eugene Gologursky)
ALL-STAR BALLET COMPANY TOM GOLD DANCE to PERFORM with LIVE MUSIC at MAHAIWE
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) New York-based Tom Gold Dance, an ensemble featuring dancers from New York City Ballet and Miami City Ballet as well as musicians from the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), will perform works by choreographer Tom Gold and Jerome Robbins’s seminal “Concertino” at the Mahaiwe on Saturday, June 27, at 8pm. One of the pieces is choreographed to the music of avant-garde composer John Zorn; other words are danced to works by Stravinsky, JS Bach, and George Gershwin.
Paul de Jong
EXHIBITION and TALK by MULTIMEDIA ARTIST PAUL DE JONG at NO. SIX DEPOT GALLERY
(WEST STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – Multimedia artist Paul de Jong – best known as one-half of the former cult band The Books – will deliver a performance-oriented talk at No. Six Depot Gallery on Friday, June 26, from 7:30 to 9:30pm, in coordination with “Forgery,” an exhibition of de Jong’s new large screen prints and small digital prints on view at the gallery now through July 21. De Jong’s lecture performance will illustrate the processes that lead to his music and videos by showing a selection of artful and oftentimes bizarre raw footage from selected VHS tapes and screen completed videos for his new solo album ‘IF.’ De Jong will play improvised accompaniments to video footage and perform some of the music from ‘IF’ as well.
EXHIBIT JUXTAPOSES SHAKER and MODERN DESIGN at SHAKER MUSEUM MOUNT LEBANON
(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – The Shaker Museum|Mount Lebanon will open its main season exhibition, Side By Side: Shaker and Modern Design, to the public on Sunday, June 28. The exhibition, which pairs Shaker works with works by contemporary and modern designers, will be on view during the museum’s hours, every Friday-Monday 10am to 4pm through October 12. Museum members are invited to preview the exhibit on Saturday, June 27, with an opening reception for the museum’s donors being held that evening at 5pm.