The School at Jacob's Pillow

11/10/2023

Important Announcement! 🚨

This page is gracefully retiring soon. Join us over at Jacob's Pillow for continued updates about The School, exciting content, and more.

School Alumni!! Join us here (we've started a private Facebook group - a dedicated space for The School at Jacob's Pillow Alumni to reunite, reminisce, and forge new connections)!! → https://bit.ly/3szAMjd

09/26/2023

✨ Curious about the day-in-the-life of a student at The School at Jacob's Pillow? ✨

Get a glimpse of this unique summer dance experience from 2023 Contemporary Performance Ensemble member, Lauren Rothert as she shares a day preparing for a "Pause-In-The-Process" showing! ☀️

Be among the FIRST to hear about upcoming School programs & application deadlines by signing up for our email list → https://jacobspillow.prospect2.com/f/27

📱Courtesy of Lauren Rothert



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09/15/2023

We asked our 2022 Lorna Strassler Award Recipent, Kannen Glanz, to give us one piece of advice he would give someone who is wanting to make their passion for dance a career:

“I advise those wanting to make their passion for dance a career to never stop exploring what dance can be. Dance is a never-ending, explorative experience that not one person has fully understood.

There are hundreds of thousands of ideas of dance that have been presented and codified, but dance is limitless and you have the opportunity to find what it means to you.

Recognizing this will give you the power to continue making dance yours even while you may be in an education, training, or company environment.”

Learn more about Kannen on our blog!! → https://bit.ly/3QPPSel

🎥 interview with Kannen by Nel Shelby Productions; dancing excerpt courtesy of Kannen Glanz

09/12/2023

POV: You're at one of The School at Jacob's Pillow's 360 Intensives!! 😍

The 360 Intensives were designed to introduce career-aspiring & pre-professional dancers to The School Experience.

Participants get to:

👉 Work with renowned Jacob’s Pillow Artist Faculty & Alumni
👉 Train in highly-regarded training centers
👉 Strengthen their technique in a variety of dance styles
👉 Gain valuable career advice from esteemed artists
.. and more.

Sign up for our email list to receive updates when we announce our next 360 Intensive schedule. → bit.ly/JPEMAIL

📱from July 2023 at New World School of the Arts

08/25/2023

Meet our 2022 Lorna Strassler Award recipient: Kannen Glanz!

Each spring, dancers from all across the United States & abroad apply to study at The School at Jacob’s Pillow.

Only one will earn the Lorna Strassler Award for Student Excellence. 🏆

Founded in 2004 by former Jacob’s Pillow Trustee, Lorna Strassler, and her husband, this prize provides a full scholarship and a cash prize. Lorna Strassler Award recipients are selected based on performance skill excellence, a demonstrated unwavering dedication to the arts, and vision of their role in dance.

“There is a quote from that has stuck with me so deeply since I first heard it: 'As a dancer, you have nothing to prove, only everything to share.'

That piece of knowledge has helped me move forward in my dance career because it helped me reevaluate how I presented my dancing to others.

At first, I wanted to ensure that whoever I performed for saw only perfect technique and no choreographic mistakes, but now all I desire is for an audience member to simply witness the experience I am having onstage while I am dancing and connect with it emotionally.

Hearing this from Mr. Myers and applying it to my performance work has allowed me to find even *more* freedom and joy in performing.”

– Kannen Glanz, recipient of the 2022 Lorna Strassler Award at The School at Jacob's Pillow

Learn more about Kannen & his time at The School Jacob's Pillow on our blog → https://bit.ly/3QPPSel

Kannen Glanz, a student of The School at Jacob's Pillow 2022 Contemporary and Contemporary Ballet Programs, receives the Lorna Strassler Award.

08/22/2023

✨ Big Announcement!! ✨ ⁠⁠
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We are excited to share with you the 8️⃣ incredible artists who have been selected for the 2023 Ann & Weston Hicks Choreography Fellows Program. ⁠⁠
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This Program supports and expands the role of Jacob’s Pillow as a year-round center for dance creation and research and is led by long-time transformative dance artists and mentors, Dianne McIntyre & Risa Steinberg. ⁠⁠
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The following artists will be guided through extensive studio time over the next 2 weeks to evolve their choreographic ideas: ⁠⁠
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→ Azuki Umeda
⁠⁠→ Mark Caserta
⁠⁠→ Branndi Lewis
⁠⁠→ Christa Smutek
⁠⁠→ Tristian Griffin
⁠⁠→ Savannah Dunn
⁠⁠→ Brian Golden
⁠⁠→ Natasha Adorlee

We can't wait to see what they all create next!! 👏



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07/28/2023

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📌 ALUMNI NEWS! 📌 Annie Fitzpatrick '22 and Koa Chun '22 both participated in this summer's Contemporary Ballet Performance Ensemble program at Jacob's Pillow, located in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. As Performance Ensemble dancers, they had the opportunity to premiere ballets created on them by choreographers Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Andrew McNicol before live and livestreamed Festival audiences, in addition to attending workshops, seminars, and more.

Learn more about this historic dance institution at jacobspillow.org! 🩰

07/28/2023

"Dance was always there with me in all the ways I moved and developed."

Jacob's Pillow welcomes Cleo Parker Robinson today as a member of the Dunham Legacy Revisited Artist Faculty!

PS: Read a conversation with Cleo on our blog >> https://bit.ly/44BplW5

Artist FacultyThe Dunham Legacy RevisitedCleo Parker Robinson is founder and artistic director of the 53-year-old Denver-based artistic institution, CLEO PARKER ROBINSON DANCE (CRPD), leading a professional Ensemble (CPRDE), Cleo II (her 2nd company), a Youth Ensemble, an Academy of Dance, an Intern...

07/27/2023

So proud!! 🙌