Jacob’s Pillow

Jacob’s Pillow Dance, the nation’s preeminent and longest-running institute and festival for contemporary dance, makes MASS MoCA an off-summer home for large-scale co-presentations and dance residencies. Performances range from fully staged productions by leading international dance companies to focused technical workshops, to participatory dance parties featuring live music and dance instruction. Utilizing MASS MoCA’s massive Hunter Center theater with its black-box technical capacities, the program has welcomed milestone performances by artists such as Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, and Bill T. Jones, while also providing R&D and rehearsal time to emerging choreographers such as Karole Armitage, David Dorfman, and Kyle Abraham.

Past MASS MoCA and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Co-presentations