From the Earth to the Ether: 2021 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival

Artistic Director Pamela Tatge will personally introduce the first-ever multi-platform festival taking place both outdoors at the Pillow’s bucolic campus in the Berkshire hills and online, accessible to a world-wide audience. She will be joined by Festival 2021 artists LaTasha Barnes (choreographer/dancer/scholar and director of Jazz Continuum) and Eduardo Vilaro (Artistic Director and CEO, Ballet Hispanico).Pamela Tatge is the Executive and Artistic Director of Jacob’s Pillow, an international dance festival, professional School, and Archives located in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts. For nearly 17 years, Tatge served as the Director of the Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, overseeing robust programming for dance, music, theatre, and the visual arts. Tatge was named one of “The Most Influential People in Dance Today” by Dance Magazine and is the recipient of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters’ 2010 William Dawson Award for Programmatic Excellence and Sustained Achievement in Programming.