Inside the Pillow Lab: Dorrance Dance

Inside the Pillow Lab captures works in process by artists during their COVID-compliant residencies. The Pillow Lab, the Pillow’s year-round center for research and development, provides artists the crucial space and time in development, research, and technical stages of choreography-driven projects.
Dorrance Dance returned to Jacob’s Pillow for two weeks at the end of 2020 to develop new choreography and music, celebrating their first in-person rehearsals together since March. Led by the artistic team of Michelle Dorrance, Josette Wiggan, and Nicholas Young, Dorrance Dance is one of the nation’s leading tap dance companies, exploring what is most thrilling, brilliant, and beautiful about tap dancing-that it is, at once, movement and music.
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Choreography by
Josette Wiggan-Freund
Nicholas Van Young
Artistic Director
Michelle Dorrance
Artists
Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie
Christopher Broughton
Elizabeth Burke
Warren Craft
Donovan Dorrance
Michelle Dorrance
Jabu Graybeal
Luke Hickey
Rena Kinoshita
Aaron Marcellus
Carson Murphy
Gregory Richardson
Byron Tittle
Matthew “Megawatt” West
Joseph Wiggan
Josette Wiggan-Freund
Nicholas Van Young
MUSIC:
“Porão”
Written by
Gregory Richardson and Leonardo Sandoval
Performed by
Music from the Sole with José Cruzata, Josh Davis,
Noé Kains, Jennifer Vincent
“Buffalo”
“Quick 6 Theme”
“Triplet Groove”
Written and performed by Donovan Dorrance
“Brooklyn’s Best Kept Secret”
“Thundercat”
Written and performed by Gregory Richardson
“Come In Like a Johnny Cake, Go Out Like a Dumplin”
Written and performed by Josette Wiggan, Aaron Marcellus,
Gregory Richardson, Nicholas Van Young
“Bruce Lee”
Written and performed by
Donovan Dorrance and Gregory Richardson
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The artists of Dorrance Dance filmed this Pillow Lab.
INSIDE THE PILLOW LAB FILM PRODUCED BY
NEL SHELBY PRODUCTIONS:
Nel Shelby, Producer and Director
Caroline Haidet, Editor
Nina Gershonowitz, Project Manager
Benjamin Richards, Graphic Animation
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Lead support for this residency was provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.