Urban Bush Women Berkshire Residency

June 2016
Mon

6/20

Urban Bush Women (UBW) arrive in Pittsfield

Tue

6/21

10am-12pm
Engagement with Core Teen Group @ Berkshire Music School
2:30pm-4pm
Lift Evry Voice Workshop @ Mass MoCA
Community-based workshop with the Urban Bush Women. This multi-disciplinary
movement workshop is free and open to teens and adults.
Register Online [free]
7pm
Community Dinner with UBW @ Lichtenstein Center
(open to participants and donors)

Wed

6/22

10am-12pm
Engagement with Core Teen Group @ Berkshire Music School
2:30pm-4pm
Lift Evry Voice Workshop @ Mass MoCA
Community-based workshop with the Urban Bush Women. This multi-disciplinary
movement workshop is free and open to teens and adults.
Register Online [free]

Thu

6/23

10am-12pm
Engagement with Core Teen Group @ Berkshire Music School
10:30am-12pm
Lift Evry Voice Workshop @ Olga Dunn Dance Studio, Great Barrington
Community-based workshop with the Urban Bush Women. This multi-disciplinary
movement workshop is free and open to teens and adults.
Register Online [free]
6pm
Lecture and Demonstration @ First Church
Free and open to the public.

Fri

6/24

3pm-5pm
Lift Evry Voice and Core Teen Group Tour of Jacobs Pillow Dance and Archives @
Jacobs Pillow
Free and Open to the Public.

Meet at Jacobs Pillow Dance Welcome Center. Call 413-243-9919 for more info.
6:15pm
Inside/Out @ Jacobs Pillow
Urban Bush Women
Free and open to the public.
Sat

6/25

4pm
Finding Our Community @ Jacobs Pillow Dance Blakes Barn
A moderate talk by Urban Bush Womens founder-director Jawole Willa Jo Zolla and
Jennifer Bleil-Calienes, founding director of MANCC, and director of NEFA's NDP.
Register Online [free]
7pm
How We Got to the Funk Dance Party @ Crowne Plaza, Pittsfield
Free and open to the public

Mon

6/27

11am-12:30pm
Urban Bush Women Dance for Every Body @ Jacobs Pillow
This free, all-levels workshop will focus on the use of breath, weight, call and response, and
polyrhythms; no prior dance experience is needed.
This workshop is free and open to teens and adults. To register, call 413.243.9919 x161
11am-12:30pm
Engagement with Core Teen Group @ Jacobs Pillow
A second movement workshop will also take place exclusively for the Pittsfield Core Teen
Group, running concurrently with the public class. The Pillow will provide round trip
transportation to members of the Pittsfield Core Teen Group. The experience will culminate
with a picnic lunch with the Core Teen Group, Life Evry Voice participants, and Urban
Bush Women artists. Participants must be ages 16+.

6/27-7/10
Improv Traditions & Innovations: From Ring Shout to Blues to Jazz with UBW @ Jacobs
Pillow
Observe classes daily at The School at Jacobs Pillow. Schedule at jacobspillow.org.
7/2 & 7/9

6:15pm
Inside/Out @ Jacobs Pillow
Inside/Out: Improv Traditions and Innovations: From Ring Shout to Blues to Jazz Program
of The School at Jacobs Pillow
Dancers from The School at Jacobs Pillow Improv Traditions and Innovations: From Ring
Shout to Blues to Jazz Program present a variety of dances under the direction of Program
Director Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Artist Faculty Lizzy Cooper Davis, Chanon Judson, Nia
Love, Stephanie McKee, Samantha Speis, and Music Director George Caldwell.