PillowVoices: Dance Through Time Podcast
1) 50 Seasons with Norton Owen
Behind the scenes stories of how the exhibition 'Connecting Through Time: 50 Seasons with Norton Owen' came together. Scholar in Residence Maura Keefe guides the conversation with exhibit curator Wend...Show More
2) Tap is the Root, with Robyn Watson
Tap dance practitioner and educator Robyn Watson hosts an exploration of Tap as a root that feeds Broadway, Motown, music videos, pop culture, and more.
3) Frederic Franklin's Ballet Memories
Norton Owen revisits PillowTalk highlights with Frederic Franklin, a beloved star of Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, dance partner to Alexandra Danilova, and performer with American Ballet Theatre well i...Show More
4) Audio Descripton for Dance at Jacob’s Pillow
Audio description as access for blind and low vision audience members to enjoy dance is a field ripe with experimentation. Host Lisa Niedermeyer offers examples of audio description approaches from Pi...Show More
5) Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Dance scholar Nancy Wozny highlights the life and work of Moroccan and Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Cherkaoui was honored with the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award in 2022 for his achievement...Show More
6) Bill T. Jones: Philosophies and Memories
Norton Owen introduces highlights from past PillowTalks with choreographer Bill T. Jones, including reflections on his philosophy of partnering and its roots in contact improvisation. He also offers a...Show More
7) Dancing Mr. Talley Beatty's Blackness
Dance Scholar Mora-Amina Parker illuminates the historical and cultural context of Mr. Talley Beatty's choreography as well as the significant impact on in her course as a professional dancer after di...Show More
8) Resident Dance Photographers at Jacob's Pillow
Guest host Benjamin Richards focuses the lens on four different resident dance photographers: John Lindquist, Stephan Driscoll, Mike van Sleen and Christopher Duggan.
9) La Nijinska
Highlights from a 2022 PillowTalk with Lynn Garafola, author of the biography La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern speaking with scholar-in-residence Brian Schaefer. Garafola illuminates Bronislav...Show More
10) Celebrating Carmen de Lavallade
Highlights from Carmen de Lavallade's Pillow debut as a dancer in Lester Horton's company in 1953, all the way through the premiere of her one woman show at the age of 83. Host Norton Owen guides us t...Show More