Performance: Dance CoDa
Performance: Dance Morphed
Performance: Dance Pilobolus
Performance: Dance Kusika

Ballet, flamenco, tap and contemporary blues — a world of dance comes to the Berkshires and evolves here. Choreographic residencies, creative labs, and collaborations make these hills a creative center and a meeting place for movement of all kinds.

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival brings internationally ranked artists to its Becket campus year-round. Their summer festival holds hundreds of talks, films and dance performances, many of them free, and they collaborate with Mass MoCA to host new works and dance parties in North Adams.
Williams College hosts national and global performers at the ’62 Center, including an annual performance by the New York City Ballet. Students, meanwhile, create and present their own bhangra, step, West African and contemporary rhythms.
Museums and venues like the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield and PS21 just over the border present a wide range of traditional and contemporary companies.

Dance

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival

Since Ted Shawn established a revolutionary company for men on a mountaintop more than 85 years ago, Jacob’s Pillow has become a force in the international world of dance. …

Williams College ’62 Center

Williams College

The ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance — summer home of the Williamstown Theatre Festival — hosts theater and dance performances year-round while the college is in session.

Pachedu

Williams College

November 16 8:00 PM - November 17, 2018

Dance Department presents Pachedu, meaning ‘among ourselves’ in the language of the Shona people of Zimbabwe, including CoDa, Kusika, Sankofa, and The Zambezi Marimba Band, performing repertoire and new works in progress.

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival

An ever-growing online collection of dance videos filmed at Jacob’s Pillow from the 1930s to today is available free to all.