(BECKET, Mass.) – The street life of Rio will pervade Jacob’s Pillow this week when Companhia Urbana de Dança returns for a five-show engagement in the Ted Shawn Theatre from Wednesday, August 13, through Sunday, August 16, 2014. The troupe brings a program of contemporary hip-hop dances never before seen by Pillow audiences, including the thought-provoking,…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Hip-hop star Talib Kweli brings his singular brand of socio-political rap to the Hunter Center at MASS MoCA on Saturday, October 19, 2013, at 8pm. In 1998, Brooklyn-based rapper Kweli blasted into the public consciousness as one half of rap duo Black Star. The group released only one album – “Mos…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Ben Perowsky’s Moodswing Orchestra, featuring emcee TK Wonder and singer Jennifer Charles, brings its dance-floor-ready trip-hop sounds to MASS MoCA’s Club B-10 on Saturday, November 3, 2012, at 8 p.m. Rounding out drummer and bandleader Perowsky’s funky combo onstage will be David Baron on keyboards and Michael Blake on saxophone. Ben…
(BECKET, Mass.) – Compagnie Käfig, a French-Algerian dance company led by artistic director and internationally acclaimed choreographer Mourad Merzouki, brings a dynamic ensemble of hip-hop dancers from Brazil to Jacob’s Pillow from Wednesday, August 15 through Sunday, August 19, 2012, in the Ted Shawn Theatre. The company performs a program of two virtuosic works, Correria…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – The long-form dance music video Girl Walk // All Day kicks off a dance party on Saturday, August 4, 2012, at 9 p.m. at MASS MoCA. Directed by Jacob Krupnick, Girl Walk // All Day is set to Greg Gillis’s (a.k.a. Girl Talk) album All Day, in which three dancers move…
Norah Jones is set to release a new album this spring entitled Little Broken Hearts (Blue Note/EMI), a collaboration with the producer and musician Danger Mouse. With all songs co-written by the two, and all instrumental duties split between them, the album is, in essence, a duet album by the Grammy Award-winning singer and the…
