Tom Gold Dance Returns to the Mahaiwe

New York City-based Tom Gold Dance returns to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Friday, August 4, 2017 with a program featuring Counterpoint and other works by Tom Gold Dance Founder and Director Tom Gold. Complete program details will be announced at a later date. This marks the Company's third consecutive summer visit to the Berkshires.

Scheduled dancers include members of New York City Ballet, The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, and the National Ballet of Canada.

Counterpoint (2017), a pas de deux in four movements to Steve Reich's New York Counterpoint and Nagoya Marimbas, received its World Premiere during the Company's sixth annual New York City season, March 14 and 15, 2017, at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater. The presentation of Counterpoint at the Mahaiwe will be the first outside of New York.

Information

Friday, August 4, 2017 at 8:00PM

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230

Tickets

Tickets ($25-$55), now on sale, are available online at tomgolddance.org/mahaiwe17; by phone at (413) 528-0100; or in person at 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230, Wednesday-Saturday, 12-6pm. Mahaiwe Member discounts apply. A limited number of $15 SmartArt Tix in person with valid ID also available. No refunds, exchanges or cancellations.

About Tom Gold Dance

The mission of Tom Gold Dance is to bring the past, present, and future of classical dance to audiences in New York and around the world. Founded in 2008 by former New York City Ballet soloist Tom Gold, Tom Gold Dance aspires to the highest level of artistry expressed through a traditional classical dance vocabulary, including in more than a dozen works by Gold, envisioned for and set directly on the Company.

Tom Gold Dance performs regularly in New York City, and has appeared in France, Spain, Italy, Bermuda, Israel, Cuba, and Bulgaria. Recent highlights include the Company's sixth annual New York City season, and presentations of Gold's adaptation of November Steps at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini Collezione Burri in Città di Castello, Italy, and the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain.

Learn more at tomgolddance.org.

About Tom Gold

Internationally recognized dancer, choreographer, and instructor Tom Gold is the Founder and Artistic Director of Tom Gold Dance. A 2016 National Choreographers Initiative participant, Gold has created original works for his eponymous Company, as well as for Vassar College, the Bermuda Arts Festival, Oregon Ballet Theater, the New York City Ballet Choreographic Institute, St. Louis Ballet, and many other dance academies, companies, festivals, television, and special events, including the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Bravo series Odd Mom Out starring Jill Kargman, and the New York City Fringe Festival for which he won the 2016 award for Overall Excellence for his work in the Joey Variations: A Play With Dance. A 21-year member (1987- 2008) of New York City Ballet where he rose to the rank of soloist, Gold is the choreographer and performer of the 2wice Arts Foundation's DOT DOT DOT, an interactive iPad application by Abbott Miller of Pentagram.

About the Mahaiwe

The Mahaiwe is a year-round presenter of world-class music, dance, theater, classic films, Live in HD broadcasts, and arts education programs for the southern Berkshires and neighboring regions. Located at 14 Castle Street in downtown Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the intimate jewel box of a theater opened in 1905. Since 2005, the performing arts center has hosted over 1,000 events and welcomed almost half a million people through its doors.

www.mahaiwe.org

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