Jacob’s Pillow recently announced this season’s artist residencies at the Pillow Lab, its year-round incubator for new work created in Becket. The residencies support dance companies and choreographers from throughout as they develop, research and create dance-driven projects.
The Fall 2021 recipients include jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham, Indigenous Enterprise, Taylor Stanley and Shamel Pitts, and Yve Laris Cohen.
“We’re thrilled to announce the artists developing new work at the Pillow Lab. As artists continue to create and reimagine performance post-pandemic, additional space, time, and funding is absolutely essential to our field’s collective recovery and success,” said Jacob’s Pillow Executive and Artistic Director Pamela Tatge.
Previous Pillow Lab residency recipients include Ephrat Asherie, Bryan Arias, Ronald K. Brown, Jean Butler, Zoe Scofield, Bebe Miller, and Liz Lerman. A number of works developed at the Pillow Lab were performed at the 2021 Festival by artists including Dorrance Dance, Brian Brooks/Moving Company, Emily Johnson Catalyst, and jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham.
Artists and their collaborators receive unrestricted use of the Pillow’s state-of-the-art facilities in Becket, including the 7,000 square-foot Perles Family Studios. Artists also receive free housing, a stipend, professionally filmed video documentation, access to the Pillow’s extensive archives, and the presence of an “outside eye,” an editor or dramaturg to provide feedback on their work in progress. Artists also frequently praise the retreat-like atmosphere of the Pillow and its picturesque landscape due to its remote location.
This is the fourth year of the Pillow Lab, which builds upon a residency program that has existed in various forms since the Pillow’s inception in the early 1930s. Choreographers selected for a residency through the Pillow Lab are chosen by Tatge and Jacob’s Pillow Associate Curators Ali Rosa-Salas and Melanie George. Most residencies culminate with an informal in-person work-in-progress showing as part of the In Process Series. Showings are limited to an intimate, invited audience of Jacob’s Pillow members, faculty and students from the College Partnership Program, and provide valuable feedback through a structured feedback session.
Financial support for the Pillow Lab is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which has funded the Pillow Lab since its inception.
Fall 2021 Pillow Lab Residency Season
Artist information and descriptions follow. The work created during the residency is at varying stages of development and may or may not be performed at the Festival.
Indigenous Enterprise (Through Oct. 16)
Indigenous Enterprise is a Native American dance troupe consisting of champion dancers from what is currently called Canada and the United States. Its mission is to share the culture of Indigenous people and increase the understanding of Native identity through film, fashion, and dance. Members have toured internationally and domestically since 2015. Champion Fancy Dancer Kenneth Shirley founded Indigenous Enterprise and regularly collaborates with Champion Chicken Dancer Ty Lodgepole, Champion Jingle Dress Dancer Acosia Redelk, and Champion Hoop Dancer Jorge Gonzales, among others.
Indigenous Enterprise has produced five shows in Australia since 2017 for various organizations. It is also the first Indigenous company to perform capacity-sized shows at the Sydney Opera House in 2018 and 2019. In 2016, the company collaborated and performed with the Black Eyed Peas for a music video and live concert. That production went on to win an award at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards for the song “Stand-N-Rock”. In 2018, the company won a film award for its documentary Indigenous Enterprise at the international Chandler Film Festival. The company was introduced to Pillow audiences in 2019 as part of The Land on Which We Dance, a week-long celebration of Indigenous dance.
In 2020, Indigenous Enterprise made history by being selected as the first Indigenous people to perform on Season 4 of NBC’s “World of Dance” with Jennifer Lopez. The company was also called upon by filmmaker and choreographer Kenny Ortega to participate in and bring Indigenous representation to the 2021 “Virtual Parade” of the Presidential Inauguration of Joe Biden. This year, Indigenous Enterprise was also featured in The New York Times Weekend Pick.
In the Pillow Lab, Indigenous Enterprise will be developing a new work titled Indigenous Liberation in partnership with the Joyce Theater in New York City.
Taylor Stanley and Shamel Pitts (Oct. 31-Nov. 3)
Already a celebrated principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, Taylor Stanley joins a growing number of ballet stars who are pursuing new movement frontiers. Stanley came to the Pillow Lab in January 2021 with a team of artists including Lloyd Knight (Martha Graham Dance Company), Jacquelin Harris (Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater), Allysen Hooks (Gallim Dance), and Ned Sturgis (Dušan Týnek Dance Theater) to develop a new Pillow-commissioned ensemble work by postmodern choreographer Jodi Melnick.
Recent Pillow Lab artist and 2020 Guggenheim Fellow Shamel Pitts will also choreograph a Pillow-commissioned solo for Stanley within the same project. With an unpretentious movement style noted as being “elegantly forceful...calm, confident, divinely cool,” (Brian Seibert, The New York Times) Stanley is a natural fit for these exploratory contemporary ventures. This Pillow Lab residency will be a continuation from the artists’ 2021 Pillow Lab residency.
Yve Laris Cohen (Dec. 1-11)
New York-based artist Yve Laris Cohen makes installations and performances that traverse the visual arts and dance. Exploring questions of labor and value, Laris Cohen’s work stages trauma and care, conflict and support, vulnerability and dependency.
In the Pillow Lab, Laris Cohen will develop a new work using the remains of the Doris Duke Theatre, which burned on the Jacob’s Pillow campus in November 2020.
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