Visionary Leaders Jacob’s Pillow
Jacob's Pillow Visionary Leaders Invest and Inspire Success and innovation happen only through the dedication of generous individuals who inspire achievement, invest in excellence, and want to give back. Express your passion and commitment by joining Visionary Leaders, a group of exceptional supporters whose annual contributions of $10,000 and above sustain Jacob's Pillow as the world's preeminent dance center and advance the art of dance. Your involvement has a direct impact that benefits choreographers, dancers, students, scholars, teachers, arts administrators, and audiences in the local community, across the nation, and around the world.
Give and Receive As a Visionary Leader, you receive public recognition during the Festival and throughout the year (or you may choose to remain anonymous). You enjoy the highest level of priority access to tickets, prime seating, the annual Visionary Leaders event, and VIP experiences throughout the Festival and year-round with artists, the Pillow’s Executive and Artistic Director, scholars, master teachers, artistic collaborators, and movers and shakers. You may choose to provide essential support for all of the Pillow’s annual programs, or to sponsor one or more program areas:
Artistic Excellence Education Free Public Programs The Archives The National Historic Landmark
Join Us and Make the Future Remarkable Now
Jacob’s Pillow is the only dance presenting institution in America named a National Historic Landmark and awarded the National Medal of Arts.
David Hallberg performing at Jacob's Pillow's 80th Anniversary Gala; photo Karli Cadel.
Artistic Excellence Ted Shawn Theatre Performances Doris Duke Theatre Performances Premieres Commissions Live Music for Dance Creative Development Residencies Underwrite performances by remarkable artists from all over the world. Sponsor commissions, premieres, exclusive presentations, and live music. Enable innovative artists to create new work during year-round Creative Development Residencies.
Each Festival presents over 50 dance companies from all over the world on three stages, and features more than 350 free and ticketed events totaling 90,000 visitor experiences.
Left: Pichet Klunchun; photo Kristi Pitsch. Right: Trey McIntyre Project; photo Christopher Duggan.
Education The School at Jacob's Pillow Scholarships for Students Scholarships for Interns
Curriculum in Motion® Contribute to the future of dance. Invest in the transformation of exceptional dancers who train at The School at Jacob’s Pillow while immersed in the international Festival. Support the Intern Program, providing on-the-job professional training for the arts field. Champion Curriculum in Motion®—the Pillow’s innovative arts education program in local public schools.
70% of the aspiring pre-professional dancers in The School at Jacob's Pillow depend on scholarship support.
Left: Curriculum in Motion速; photo Scott Barrow. Right: Milton Myers in the studio with Contemporary Program participants of The School at Jacob's Pillow; photo Karli Cadel.
Free Public Programs Inside/Out Performances on the Henry J. Leir Stage Gallery Exhibits PillowTalks Pre and Post Show Talks Online Engagement through Virtual Pillow Next Generation Ticket Subsidies Bring dance—free of charge—to thousands of people from local communities and around the world, inviting them to engage with art through performances, exhibits, talks, films, and social events. Provide affordable access to dance for people of all walks of life, ages, abilities, and economic means. Build an online global and mobile e-audience for dance through Virtual Pillow.
More than 200 free performances and events deliver excitement and inspiration each Festival season. People around the world can participate at Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive: danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org
Left: Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive; photo Cherylynn Tsushima. Right: The Houston Met Company; photo Taylor Crichton.
The Archives Festival Documentation Dance Preservation Public Access Scholars-in-Residence Research Fellowships Ensure the preservation and documentation of dance. Provide free access year-round to videos of Festival performances, Pillow history, costumes, films, photographs, and interviews with remarkable artists. Make the Archives accessible to audience members of all ages, artists, students, scholars, researchers, and the entire cultural field.
The Archives maintains more than 9,000 films and videos from 1894 to recent Festival performances, plus photographs, posters, programs, costumes, correspondence, and books.
Bottom left: PillowTalk with Judith Jamison; photo Christopher Duggan. Bottom right: The Reading Room in the Archives; photo Cherylynn Tsushima. Right page: Ted Shawn's Men Dancers in Polonaise, c. 1933.
The National
Historic Landmark
Theatres Historic Buildings Gardens Land Stewardship Sustain America’s only dance presenting institution to be named a National Historic Landmark and awarded the National Medal of Arts. Celebrate Jacob’s Pillow’s pioneering roots as a c.1790 family farm, a station on the Underground Railroad, and its founding as a dance center by Ted Shawn. Ensure that the Pillow’s historical structures and idyllic surroundings continue to be enjoyed by all.
The Pillow’s historic grounds encompass 220 acres, 3 performance stages, 6 dance studios, and 15 buildings that house artists, faculty, interns, scholars, and students.
Left: An early Pillow audience gathers in the Tea Garden, c. 1935. Right: Ted Shawn Theatre; photo Christopher Duggan.
Visionary Leaders Recognition and Benefits Visionary Leaders $10,000 and above Receive all Ted Shawn Circle benefits and:
• Priority ticket ordering, prime seating, and parking • Invitations to the annual Visionary Leaders event and other exclusive gatherings • Recognition in theatre lobbies or Blake's Barn and in the Festival Program Book, weekly program, and other materials • Public acknowledgment at events related to your program area of giving such as a cast party, Inside/Out performance, Creative Development Residency showing, Curriculum in Motion® showing, and other public events • Meet the artist, faculty member, student, or intern you sponsor and have a photo taken with them • Enjoy backstage and special tours • Education Sponsors are invited to observe auditions, open rehearsals, classes, and attend Scholarship Luncheons • Virtual Pillow Sponsors receive special web acknowledgement on Virtual Pillow sites
Visionary Leader Season Sponsors $25,000 and above Receive all sponsor benefits above and:
• Lead recognition on Pillow signage, in the Festival Program book and other publications, on the website, and at events • Invitations to special occasions and individual meetings related to your program area of giving with artists, master faculty, students, the Executive and Artistic Director, the Director of Preservation, Scholars, and/or Research Fellows • Other customized benefits
Kana Kimura of Jessica Lang Dance; photo Christopher Duggan.
– The New York Times
The Pillow's Mission To support the creation, presentation, education, and preservation of dance; and to engage and deepen public appreciation and support for dance.
JACOB’S PILLOW D A N C E
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Cover: Drew Jacoby & Rubinald Pronk; photo Marty Sohl for Dance Magazine. The Henry J. Leir Stage and Marcia & Seymour Simon Performance Space; photo Charlie Winter.
“the dance center of the nation”