The summer dance festival will feature Olga Smirnova, the former Bolshoi star, now with the Dutch National Ballet, and Mark Morris’s Burt Bacharach tribute.
ON THE MORNING of November 17, 2020, a fire destroyed the Doris Duke Theatre (formerly the Studio/Theatre) at Jacob’s Pillow, a venerable dance stronghold in Becket, Massachusetts. Yve Laris Cohen’s “Studio/Theater,” his current project at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, takes up this conflagration and ties it to another, a 1958 blaze at MoMA that kindled new institutional protocols around conservation.For those who have followed Laris Cohen’s work, there’s an obvious kinship with his “Embattled Garden,” a 2016 exhibition at Company Gallery in New York during which the artist examined,
Artistic Director Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell will return to Jacob s Pillow for the first time in 30 years, and she looks forward with warm anticipation.