President Barack Obama will tomorrow honor Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival with a National Medal of Arts, the highest arts award given by the United States Government on March 2, 2011. [...]
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7 February 2011 Whether in the family living room, or in the living beauty of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, dance maker Sydney Skybetter brings focus and authenticity to his task. [...] 5 February 2011 
Mindy, a dance critic and Barnard College professor, describes how, under [Walt's brother] Roy Disney’s influence, “dancing and music were given very high priority in terms of quality and in terms of refinement of technology” at Disney studios. Aloff then dons her severe dance critic’s hat, and notes that “Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse were both very good dancers.” [...] 25 November 2010 
Jack Cole’s extraordinary dance career, which ended in Los Angeles as a beloved dance instructor at UCLA, had its start as a Denishawn dancer, and soon thereafter as one of Ted Shawn’s Male Dancers, visiting in 1931, Shawn’s nascent Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. [...] 10 November 2010 
It was my great honor to join a panel at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival on Saturday, August 14, 2010, to honor the peerless jazz choreographer Jack Cole, whom I revere and about whom I have written. As a former Denishawn dancer, Cole had a distinct history at “The Pillow.” Here I contribute a snippet about Cole’s choreography for Marilyn Monroe in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” [...] 24 October 2010 
Pittsburgh-born choreographer Kyle Abraham shares one of the Steel City’s great qualities: he’s real. [...] 20 August 2010 
Sometimes the drum took as much of a beating as Jack Cole’s dance students did. [...] 18 August 2010 
I enjoyed Kyle Abraham’s “The Radio Show” at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. The dance commemorates the loss of Pittsburgh’s rhythm-and-blues radio station WAMO. [...] 14 August 2010 
arts•meme is enjoying her first-ever visit to Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival [...] 1 August 2010 
An afternoon symposium at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival will remember dancer/choreographer Jack Cole, August 14, 2010. arts·meme will attend. [...] |
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gered mankowitz, photog, 1967
“the red danube” (1949)
