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Jacob’s Pillow 2012 summer schedule<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival<\/strong> is the oldest and most popular summer dance festival in the United States. It was begun on a mountainside farm in Becket, Mass<\/a>, which Ted Shawn bought in 1931, in the final dys of the Denishawn Company<\/strong> that he ran with his wife Ruth St. Denis<\/a>. (Around the same time, Tanglewood was getting established some 30 miles to the west in Lenox, Mass.) Shawn, whose initial mission was to legitimize dance as a career for men<\/em>, recruited eight students from nearby Springfield College<\/strong> and established a company called Ted Shawn and his Men Dancers<\/strong>. Their success led to the formation of Jacob\u2019s Pillow Dance Festival Committee<\/em> in 1941 and then the Ted Shawn Theatre<\/strong> in 1942.<\/p>\n

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The Ted Shawn Theatre at night in 2006. Photo by Christopher Duggan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ted Shawn Theatre 2012 schedule<\/h2>\n

80th Anniversary Season Opening Gala<\/h3>\n

June 16, 2012 – David Hallberg – Mimulus – CIRCA – Dancers of the Ballet Program<\/strong><\/p>\n