Berkshire on Stage

ILLINOIS JUNE 23 – JULY 2 at the Fisher Center at Bard College, Manor Avenue, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY Three brilliantly imaginative artists—Justin Peck, Sufjan Stevens, and Jackie Sibblies Drury—unite to create an ecstatic pageant of storytelling, theater, dance, and live music. Stevens’ 2005 concept album Illinois enjoys cult status for its lush orchestrations…

Performance artist, visual artist, and composer, Kite, returns to the Fisher Center for a LAB-commissioned performance. Agúyabskuyela explores the Lakȟóta tradition of sharing cakes at funeral wakes, and the traditions, kin, land, and species they have lost. Sharing cakes at funeral wakes is a practice common amongst the Lakȟóta people; often, these…