(Becket, Mass.) – Two highly respected contemporary artists and choreographers, Jodi Melnick and David Neumann, will dance together in a unique collaboration choreographed expressly for their residency at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival this week, as their respective company’s share the stage in the Doris Duke Theatre on August 10-14. In her Pillow debut performance, two-time…
Ludmila Pagliero and Takeru Coste of 3e Étage in ‘Processes of Intricacy’ (photo Cherylynn Tsushima) JACOB’S PILLOW 3e etage (Third Floor) Ted Shawn Theatre August 3-7, 2011 Review by Anna Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass.) – The concept of 3e étage’s engagement at Jacob’s Pillow, a mixed bill of works which interweave to form a single…
JACOB’S PILLOW Jonah Bokaer Doris Duke Theatre August 3, 2011 Review by Anna Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass.) – Jonah Bokaer possesses a syrupy yet precise movement quality and the sort of unaffected stage presence one might not have expected from such an arguably precocious individual — at 18, he was the youngest person ever to join…
The week’s cultural higlights offer eclecticism and diversity, ranging from new avant-garde classical music at Tanglewood as part of the Contemporary Music Festival to avant-garde dance with ping-pong balls at Jacob’s Pillow to avant-pop vocals by Lia Ices at Club Helsinki Hudson to luminous landscapes at Harrison Gallery to neo-Victorianism at Norman Rockwell Museum to…
(BECKET, Mass.) – Performer, choreographer, and media artist Jonah Bokaer will combine dance, architecture, and visual art in an innovative program of two U.S. premieres in the Doris Duke Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow on August 3-7. Bokaer and his dancers will perform the site-specific RECESS, designed by acclaimed visual artist Daniel Arsham, and Why Patterns,…
LDP/Laboratory Dance Project in ‘Are you happy to see me?’ (photo Christopher Duggan) JACOB’S PILLOW Laboratory Dance Project (LDP) Wednesday, July 27, 2011 Review by Anna Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass.) – In the mixed bill of three works that made up their Jacob’s Pillow debut [running through Sunday, July 31], Laboratory Dance Project (LDP) displayed a…
(BECKET, Mass.) – South Korea’s award-winning contemporary company LDP/Laboratory Dance Project headlines Korea Week, a special program focusing on dance from Korea, at Jacob’s Pillow from Wednesday, July 27 to Sunday, July 31, 2001. Korea Week also includes a free performance by the Korean Traditional Music and Dance Institute on the Indoor/Outdoor stage on Thursday,…
JACOB’S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL zoe | juniper Doris Duke Theatre July 20, 2011 Review by Anna Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass.) – The Doris Duke Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow has been transformed, by way of white floor paneling, towering screens, powerful sounds, and eerie characters, into another world. Audience members filing in to take their seats are…
(The Berkshires, July 20, 2011) – ArtBerkshires, an organization working to bring together professionals in the arts living and working in the Berkshires, presents the first of two curated weekends taking place in the summer of 2011. The weekend will feature studio and home visits with visual artists, dance and theater performances, and discussions with…
(BECKET, Mass.) – Choreographer Zoe Scofield and visual artist Juniper Shuey, co-directors of the Seattle-based company zoe | juniper, return to Jacob’s Pillow to perform the world premiere of A Crack in Everything on July 20-24. Created in part during a Creative Development Residency at Jacob’s Pillow, A Crack in Everything – whose title is…
