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Jacob’s Pillow 2012 summer schedule

Jacob’s Pillow 2012 summer schedule

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival is the oldest and most popular summer dance festival in the United States. It was begun on a mountainside farm in Becket, Mass, which Ted Shawn bought in 1931, in the final dys of the Denishawn Company that he ran with his wife Ruth St. Denis. (Around the same time, Tanglewood was getting established some 30 miles to the west in Lenox, Mass.) Shawn, whose initial mission was to legitimize dance as a career for men, recruited eight students from nearby Springfield College and established a company called Ted Shawn and his Men Dancers. Their success led to the formation of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Committee in 1941 and then the Ted Shawn Theatre in 1942.

The Ted Shawn Theatre at night in 2006. Photo by Christopher Duggan
The Ted Shawn Theatre at night in 2006. Photo by Christopher Duggan

Ted Shawn Theatre 2012 schedule

80th Anniversary Season Opening Gala

June 16, 2012 – David Hallberg – Mimulus – CIRCA – Dancers of the Ballet Program

  • Mimulus – June 20-June 24, 2012
  • Morphoses – June 27-July 1, 2012
  • Vertigo Dance Company – July 4-July 8, 2012
  • Borrowed Light by Tero Saarinen – July 11-July 15, 2012 – LIVE MUSIC
  • Hong Kong Ballet – July 18-July 22, 2012
  • Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company – July 25-July 29, 2012
  • Royal Winnipeg Ballet – August 1-August 5, 2012
  • Trey McIntyre Project – August 8-August 12, 2012
  • Compagnie Käfig – August 15-August 19, 2012
  • A Jazz Happening – August 19, 2012
  • The Joffrey Ballet – August 22-August 26, 2012

Doris Duke Theatre 2012 schedule

  • Circa – June 20-June 24, 2012
  • Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM – June 27-July 1, 2012
  • LeeSaar The Company – July 4-July 8, 2012
  • The Men Dancers: From the Horse’s Mouth – July 11-July 15, 2012
  • Luna Negra Dance Theater – July 18-July 22, 2012
  • Jessica Lang Dance – July 25-July 29, 2012
  • Jonah Bokaer & David Hallberg – August 1-August 5, 2012 – U.S. PREMIERE
  • Dance Heginbotham – August 8-August 12, 2012
  • Liz Gerring Dance Company – August 15-August 19, 2012
  • Doug Elkins and Friends’ Fräulein Maria – August 22-August 26, 2012

Contact info. and Directions to Jacob’s Pillow

  • 358 George Carter Road
  • Becket, MA 01223
  • Phone: 413.243.9919
  • Web: jacobspillow.org