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DESCRIPTION:Jun 24 - Aug 30\, 2026\nJacob’s Pillow is the America of danc
 e festivals: the oldest in modern times\, as they say of our 250-year demo
 cracy. Hewn from a Berkshires farm by Ted Shawn\, proponent of men dancing
  manfully\, the Pillow’s Depression beginnings in 1931 reek of rugged in
 dividualism—the pioneer claiming dominion over the wilderness. But the f
 estival has mainly taken its cue from this piney outpost’s history as a 
 way station on the Underground Railroad to this year honor a range of Afri
 can-American work. From mid-June to the end of August\, the Pillow hosts t
 he modern-dance-inclined Urban Bush Women\, the MacArthur genius Kyle Abra
 ham (a world premiere!)\, and—for the troupe of Ted Shawn’s former\, f
 amous dance partner\, the ever-astounding Martha Graham—the sly-thinking
  original Hope Boykin and her onetime Ailey colleague Jamar Roberts\, who 
 stands apart and above almost everyone else in his generation. Meanwhile\,
  “tapologist” Brinae Ali and the Baltimore Music Collective represent 
 the hoofer line\, which stretches all the way back to slave times. The Bab
 y Laurence Legacy Project celebrates this bebop maverick. For one day apie
 ce on the outdoor stage\, canopied by feathery trees and backdropped by a 
 valley blasted with light\, the women of the deeply rooted Honolulu troupe
  Pua Ali’i ‘Ilima swish their Ti-leaf skirts and Acosia Red Elk\, of n
 ortheast Oregon’s Umatilla tribe\, spreads her wings.
LOCATION:Jacob's Pillow\, 358 George Carter Rd\, Becket\, MA 01223
SUMMARY:Jacob's Pillow: The Festival
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