Tableaux Vivants or “Living Pictures” to Revive a Favorite Victorian Entertainment at Chesterwood

STOCKBRIDGE, MA (July 22, 2024) – Chesterwood, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, continues its popular performing arts series, Arts Alive!, with a special theater performance that revives a favorite Victorian-era form of entertainment, tableaux vivants, or “living pictures”, on Saturday, August 3 at 5:30pm, set in the historic…

Chesterwood Presents “Director’s Insight” with Tina Packer

STOCKBRIDGE, MA (July 10, 2024) – Chesterwood, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, continues its popular performing arts series, Arts Alive!, with a special evening with Shakespeare & Company‘s founder and director Tina Packer, who will bring her cast for The Winter’s Tale to the garden at Chesterwood to share her insights…

Berkshire Pulse Choreographers Present Intergenerational Performances at Chesterwood

July 9, 2024 (Housatonic, MA)— Berkshire Pulse, South County’s dynamic dance and performing arts education center located in the heart of Housatonic, is presenting Spirits of Chesterwood, an intergenerational dance project, at Chesterwood, the historic home, studio, and gardens of sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850-1931), on August 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th…

Choreographer Fiona Scruggs’s Qualia Dance Collective Announces Summer 2023 Season

Sheffield, MA—Berkshire-based choreographer Fiona Scruggs’s Qualia Dance Collective has announced it’s summer 2023 season in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts.  Founded in 2022, Qualia Dance Collective seeks to explore the qualities of space, time, and energy as catalysts for movement and art and performs the choreography of Fiona Scruggs. Scruggs’s background…

Berkshire Pulse Choreographers Present Intergenerational Performances at Chesterwood

July 10, 2023 (Housatonic, MA)— Berkshire Pulse, South County’s dynamic dance and performing arts education center located in the heart of Housatonic, is presenting Spirits of Chesterwood, an intergenerational dance project, at Chesterwood, the historic home, studio, and gardens of sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850-1931), on Thursday, July 27th at 4:00 pm…