Is it just us, or is there a new exciting project being announced approximately every five minutes these days? While that might be a slight exaggeration, there’s no denying that keeping track of all the major collaborations and musicals and movie adaptations and premieres can get overwhelming. So, we’re compiling a list of the buzziest […]

Since she was little, Hannah Kravec, 16, had been watching videos of dancers she revered perform on the Inside/Out stage, a serene venue overlooking the Berkshire mountains on the campus of the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Suddenly last summer, she was dancing on it herself as a student in the school’s tap program. “It was […]

At Jacob’s Pillow’s June gala, something happened that outraged me: A patron who identifies as black/biracial felt a white man seated behind her touch her tightly coiled hair. When she ignored him, he audibly complained that her hair would block his view of the stage. At dinner, the patron was further subjected to a series […]

What happens during a performance is the product of the painstaking process of realizing an artistic vision. Whether held beforehand, afterward, offsite or online, audience discussions tend not to be so preordained, easily thrown off track without a skilled moderator at the helm. “I’m someone who dreaded talkbacks and Q&As,” admits Bill Bragin, former director […]

What’s better on your morning commute than listening to a podcast, you ask? We’d say, listening to a dance podcast! Lucky for us, there are more dance podcasts than ever. We’re here to provide a guide to our current top dance podcast picks. Conversations on Dance Started just over three years ago, Conversations on Dance, […]

Summer might seem impossibly far away (especially with so much of the U.S. still in the throes of the latest polar vortex), but it’s almost too late to win a chance for your choreography to appear at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival this August. The submission period for the Pillow’s third-annual Chance to Dance contest closes […]

When I read last month that Jessica Lang Dance had announced its farewell, I’m sure I wasn’t the only dancer surprised. In the same way that many of us, when reading an obituary, instinctively look for the cause of death, I searched for a reason for the company’s unexpected folding. It was buried in the […]

We might have gotten a little bit carried away with this year’s “Season Preview”—but with the 2018–19 season packing so many buzzy shows, how could we not? Here are over two dozen tours, premieres and revivals that have us drooling. A Night of Natalia Osipova—With David Hallberg David Hallberg and Natalia Osipova have a rare, […]