Ted Shawn News

O Vertigo Danse and members of the Quebec Contemporary Music Society bring La Vie Qui Bat (The Beat of Life), a powerful multi-disciplinary work, to the Ted Shawn Theatre at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival today, August 7-11.

The Public Theater and Theatre for a New Audience will present three special screenings of Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory's most beloved films, Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner, Vanya on 42nd Street, and My Dinner With Andre, at Joe's Pub at The Public in August. These three screenings are presented as part of the current retrospective, The Wallace Shawn-Andre Gregory Project, celebrating the 40-year collaboration between these two artists.

O Vertigo Danse and members of the Quebec Contemporary Music Society bring La Vie Qui Bat (The Beat of Life), a powerful multi-disciplinary work, to the Ted Shawn Theatre at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival August 7-11.

RDT invites you to join them in celebrating their 48th season - a legendary season. RDT's 2013-2014 season is brought to you by the letter 'L' featuring performances of legacy, liveliness, levity, and land.

Dynamic contemporary dance company BODYTRAFFIC makes its Jacob's Pillow debut today, July 31- August 4 in the Doris Duke Theatre.

Jacob's Pillow. Everyone in the professional dance world knows its name, and every professional company wants to perform there. The history of Jacob's Pillow is a reflection of the development of dance in America. It presents the highest quality of dance currently being performed around the world.

From July 31-August 4, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival presents 3e étage, soloists of the Paris Opera Ballet, in the Ted Shawn Theatre. This performance marks the company's first U.S. appearance since a sold-out U.S. debut during Festival 2011. Traveling from France, this contemporary ballet company will perform the world premiere of Le Pillow Thirteen, a suite of new ballets and beloved favorites commissioned specifically for Jacob's Pillow. Under the direction of choreographer Samuel Murez, star dancers from the prestigious Paris Opera Ballet, including Murez himself, combine impeccable ballet technique with vastly imaginative style in this exclusive program.

Winner of Best Documentary at both the San Francisco Dance Film Festival and the Dance Camera West Festival in Los Angeles, Dancing at Jacob's Pillow: Never Stand Still will have its television premiere on THIRTEEN's Great Performances tonight, July 26 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).

Dynamic contemporary dance company BODYTRAFFIC makes its Jacob's Pillow debut July 31- August 4 in the Doris Duke Theatre. Named among Dance Magazine's “25 to Watch” in 2013, the company's Pillow program consists of And at midnight the green bride floated through the village square…(2012) created by Israeli-American dancemaker Barak Marshall, Fragile Dwellings (2011) by Belgian-born choreographer Stijn Celis, and O2Joy (2012) by founder and artistic director of The Bakery, Richard Siegal.

Winner of Best Documentary at both the San Francisco Dance Film Festival and the Dance Camera West Festival in Los Angeles, Dancing at Jacob's Pillow: Never Stand Still will have its television premiere on THIRTEEN's Great Performances

Winner of Best Documentary at both the San Francisco Dance Film Festival and the Dance Camera West Festival in Los Angeles, Dancing at Jacob's Pillow: Never Stand Still will have its television premiere on THIRTEEN's Great Performances Friday, July 26 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).

Jacob's Pillow presents Tere O'Connor Dance in Cover Boy, today, July 17-21 in the Doris Duke Theatre.

Ballet BC, one of today's top contemporary ballet companies from Vancouver, British Columbia, brings a diverse program to the Ted Shawn Theatre at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival today, July 17-21.

Join a live studio audience on the set of a '70s-style sitcom as The Inconvenience, The New Colony and the University of Chicago's Theater and Performance Studies Program team up to co-produce the world premiere of B-SIDE STUDIO, co-written by Inconvenience Resident Writer Ike Holter and New Colony Co-Artistic Director Evan Linder and directed by Nicholas J. Carroll, Andrew Hobgood and Gus Menary. B-SIDE STUDIO is performed on Fridays and Saturdays at 9/8c (that's 8 pm in Chicago, meathead!) from September 13 - October 12, 2013 at The Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th St. in Chicago. The press performances are Friday, September 13 at 8 pm and Saturday, September 14 at 8 pm.

Join a live studio audience on the set of a '70s-style sitcom as The Inconvenience, The New Colony and the University of Chicago's Theater and Performance Studies Program team up to co-produce the world premiere of B-SIDE STUDIO, co-written by Inconvenience Resident Writer Ike Holter and New Colony Co-Artistic Director Evan Linder and directed by Nicholas J. Carroll, Andrew Hobgood and Gus Menary. B-SIDE STUDIO is performed on Fridays and Saturdays at 9/8c (that's 8 pm in Chicago, meathead!) from September 13 - October 12, 2013 at The Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th St. in Chicago. The press performances are Friday, September 13 at 8 pm and Saturday, September 14 at 8 pm.

Ballet BC, one of today's top contemporary ballet companies from Vancouver, British Columbia, brings a diverse program to the Ted Shawn Theatre at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival July 17-21. Led by Artistic Director Emily Molnar, the company performs in three U.S. premieres full of intensity and expert technique.

Jacob's Pillow presents Tere O'Connor Dance in Cover Boy, July 17-21 in the Doris Duke Theatre. Created by choreographer and Artistic Director Tere O'Connor in 2011, Cover Boy explores the closeted gay experience and universal feeling of "otherness" in a poignant and thought-provoking way. Gia Kourlas in Time Out New Yorkcomments "Cover Boy looks at beauty, the body, fear, and desire to find the positive in what would otherwise be thought of as a marginalized existence." Siobhan Burke of The New York Times notes "…hopeful and fearful, aggressive and affectionate, communal and solitary. Mr. O'Connor's dancers embody those contradictions with superb audacity and elegance." This performance is presented as part of the Pillow's annual LGBT Weekend OUT, featuring a packed schedule of free and ticketed performances, talks, and special events, including a Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers tour led by Director of Preservation Norton Owen Sunday, July 21 at noon.

L-E-V, the contemporary dance company founded by Israel-based co-creators and artistic directors Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar, will make its U.S. debut in the Ted Shawn Theatre at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival July 24-28. The company performs the U.S. premiere ofHOUSE, a hypnotic evening-length work originally commissioned by the Batsheva Dance Company. With a score by the popular composer Ori Lichtik and lighting by acclaimed designer Bambi, the exquisite dancers of L-E-V, including Sharon Eyal herself, perform this compelling and mesmerizing work.