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The founder and director of Dorrance Dance, Michelle Dorrance was the recipient of the 2013 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award and has been lauded as one of today’s most imaginative tap choreographers. She grew up performing… Read More

The founder and director of Dorrance Dance, Michelle Dorrance was the recipient of the 2013 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award and has been lauded as one of today’s most imaginative tap choreographers. She grew up performing… Read More

The founder and director of Dorrance Dance, Michelle Dorrance, has been lauded as one of today’s most imaginative tap choreographers. She grew up performing with the North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble under the direction of… Read More

The founder and director of Dorrance Dance, Michelle Dorrance, received the 2013 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award and has been lauded as one of today’s most imaginative tap choreographers. She grew up performing with the North… Read More

The site-specific work excerpted here, collaboratively created by Michelle Dorrance, Josette Wiggan-Freund, and Nicholas Van Young, premiered at the Pillow as part of a multi-venue celebration entitled “Dorrance Dance Plays the Pillow,” an engagement that… Read More

The founder and director of Dorrance Dance, Michelle Dorrance, received the 2013 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award and has been lauded as one of today’s most imaginative tap choreographers. She grew up performing with the North… Read More

The founder and director of Dorrance Dance, Michelle Dorrance, received the 2013 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award and has been lauded as one of today’s most imaginative tap choreographers. She grew up performing with the North… Read More

The founder and director of Dorrance Dance, Michelle Dorrance, received the 2013 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award and has been lauded as one of today’s most imaginative tap choreographers. She grew up performing with the North… Read More

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award winner Michelle Dorrance has been lauded as one of today’s most imaginative tap choreographers.

Now a Company-in-Residence at Connecticut College, David Dorfman Dance was founded in 1985. Dorfman is a native Chicagoan who studied with Daniel Nagrin and toured with the companies of Kei Takei and Susan Marshall. His… Read More

Brother(hood) Dance! was formed in April 2014 as a duo that researches, creates, and performs dances by Orlando Zane Hunter, Jr. and Ricarrdo Valentine. They seek to inform their audiences about socio-political and environmental injustices… Read More

Seen here in its third Pillow appearance (following its 2007 U.S. debut engagement), Mimulus is based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. This work, Por Um Fio (which literally means “by a thread”) is inspired by the… Read More

This all-female intergenerational dance company creates dance works illuminating the presence and power of women in hip-hop. Their movement includes freestyle, ciphering, party dances, and call-and-response, representing the essence of street and club dance culture… Read More

This excerpt from the Eastern Woodland Dances program features the Freshwater dancers of the Nipmuc nation, whose homelands include the interior portion of what is currently called Massachusetts, as well as parts of Rhode Island… Read More

Under the artistic direction of Brazilian dancer/choreographer Leonardo Sandoval and bassist/composer Gregory Richardson, Music From The Sole is a tap dance and live music company that celebrates tap’s Afro-diasporic roots, particularly its connections to Afro-Brazilian… Read More

Companies from Portugal, Angola, and Brazil came together on a single Pillow program to explore cultural connections under an umbrella title, “The Roots of Creole.” The group seen here is from the town of Miranda… Read More

After performing with dance companies in the Midwest and in Boston, Beth Soll formed Dance Projects, Inc./Beth Soll & Company in 1977. She directed the dance program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for twenty… Read More

Established in Tel Aviv in 1964, Batsheva took its name from its founder, Baroness Batsheva (Bethsabee) de Rothschild, a member of the prominent banking family. Martha Graham was the company’s first artistic director, and Israeli-born… Read More

The smoke dance is a popular social dance of the Haudenosaunee confederacy, performed here by a member of the Seneca tribe. There are several origin stories for this dance. According to Al George (Cayuga), Wampum… Read More

Since its inception in 1987, the company has toured extensively throughout the world, sharing the music, movement and spectacle of its vibrant and living culture. Traditional dances from many regions are featured, including ceremonial and… Read More