Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival

In 1933 he founded Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival near Lee, Massachusetts, as a summer residence and theatre for his dancers. After the group’s dissolution, Shawn developed Jacob’s Pillow into an internationally important dance centre. Although his own choreography was generally nonballetic, he believed that dance as a whole is…

…Words in July at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival to the accompaniment of the string quartet Brooklyn Rider. In 2019 Whelan became NYCB’s associate artistic director.