(June 4-19)
In Tivoli, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park’s summer festival has four segments: “Live Arts Global” (June 4-5), which this year presents the dance performance “JOURNEY”; “Rising Stars” (June 11-12), with dancers from the ABT JKO School, the Juilliard School, and the School of American Ballet with music by the Neave Trio; acclaimed cabaret artist Taylor Mac (June 18); and a Juneteenth celebration (June 19) with music from saxophonist Tyrone Birkett and Emancipation, dance by Robert Rubama and Kar’mel Antonyo Wade Small, and a poetry lineup curated by the multi-award-winning poet “Patricia Smith” and costarring poet laureate of Los Angeles Lynne Thompson and Pulitzer-winning Tyehimba Jess.
(June 22-August 28)
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival stretches back to the 1930s, when pioneering choreographer Ted Shawn purchased a former farm in Beckett, Massachusetts, and reopened it as a key modern dance center. This summer’s performances include “Americ(na) to Me” (June 22-26), Ronald K. Brown/Evidence (June 29-July 3), Bodytraffic (June 29-July 3), the Loni Landon Dance Project (July 1-2), “Sw!ng Out” (July 6-10), “A.I.M.” by Kyle Abraham (July 13-17), the Limon Dance Company (July 20-24), Music from the Sole (July 20-24), Black Grace (July 27-31), Taylor Stanley (July 27-31), Michelle N. Gibson with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra’s NOJO 7 (July 29-30), Alonzo King Lines Ballet (August 3-7), Liz Lerman’s “Wicked Bodies” (August 10-13), and more.
Tom Gold Dance at TurnPark Art Space
(June 22; rain date June 23)West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, sculpture park and contemporary art centerTurnPark Art Space launched its 2022 season last month, announcing its summer schedule ahead of the opening. High up among the warm-weather happenings is this afternoon date by New York ensemble Tom Gold Dance with a routine that was inspired by the park itself. Founded in 2008 by New York City Ballet soloist Tom Gold, the classical dance troupe embraces bold new movement that both channels and accentuates its members’ classical training. Also on the schedule is an afternoon with local Fern Katz Dance (August 27), the center’s annual summer festival (July 11), musician David Rothenberg’s “What Birds Sing: Music from Nature” (July 16), poetry, sculpture, and more.
“Bridge Music Dance Project”
(June 25; rain date June 28)“Bridge Music Dance Project”is a free, unique event that brings together three of the Hudson Valley’s leading attractions: the Walkway Over the Hudson bridge park, composer Joseph Bertolozzi’s “Bridge Music,” and the Vanaver Caravan dance troupe. Staged on the Walkway Over the Hudson, which spans the Hudson River between Poughkeepsie and Highland, theproject isa program of experimental performances by dancers from the Hudson Valley choreographed to “Bridge Music,” Bertolozzi’s percussion suite that was recorded using the nearby Mid-Hudson Valley Bridge as instrumentation. 7:30pm.
“Song of Songs” at Bard SummerScape
(July 1-3)
A standout of the 2022 Bard SummerScape festival (whose inspirational focus this year is “Rachmaninoff and His World”), “Song of Songs,” is a major new dance-theater work based on the biblical poem of the same title (AKA “The Song of Solomon”) that will make its world premiere at the magnificent Fisher Center on the college’s Annandale-on-Hudson campus. With choreography by the center’s resident choreographer Pam Tanowitz and music by composer David Lang, “Song of Songs” is described as “a collage of sound, song, and movement that reimagines ancient rituals of love and courtship” and “holds the sacred and profane threads of the ‘Song’ in perfect balance.”
