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Cultural Highlights, July 10-16, 2009
7.10.09
Gallim Dance [photo by Franziska Strauss/courtesy Jacob's Pillow]
CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS, July 10-16, 2009
By Seth Rogovoy
Having seen short pieces by both Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet and Gallim Dance from New York at the season opening gala at Jacob's Pillow last month, I can recommend without reservation both of these companies, which are performing at the Pillow this weekend. Both are young and innovative, featuring dancers well-grounded in tradition but approaching their choreography with unique personality and no fear of innovation. It doesn't get much better than this, and the dancers are all stunning.
Famed singer-songwriter Aimee Mann, perhaps best known as the lead singer of the new wave group 'Til Tuesday -- which had a huge MTV hit called "Voices Carry" -- as well as for her work on the soundtrack to the film Magnolia, is at MASS MoCA in North Adams on Saturday night.
Roots-rock group the Felice Brothers, from Woodstock, N.Y., are at Club Helsinki in Great Barrington on Friday night, and singer-songwriter Amy Correia stops in at Helsinki on Sunday.
Around the corner, the Mahaiwe has a busy weekend, starting with stage actress and singer Bebe Neuwirth performing her cabaret show on Saturday night at 8, followed by Symphony Space's Selected Shorts on Sunday at 3pm. Sunday's program features Charles Keating, Isaiah Sheffer, and Frances Sternhagen reading stories about summer pleasures by Italo Calvino, M.F.K. Fisher, and W.P. Kinsella.
Up in Pittsfield, award-winning actor and singer James Naughton brings his cabaret act to the Colonial Theatre on Monday night, and country-rock singer-songwriter and activist Steve Earle performs a solo acoustic show at the Colonial on Tuesday night at 7:30.
It's a big weekend at Tanglewood, too, as pianist Emanuel Ax sits in with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Friday night, followed by violinist Joshua Bell on Sunday afternoon. Sandwiched in between these two celebrity concerts is one of BSO music director James Levine's signature programs of Wagnerian opera performed by the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra and Vocal Fellows.
As for me, I am corresponding from Montreal, where I am attending the thirtieth annual Montreal International Jazz Festival.
Seth Rogovoy is Berkshire Living's editor-in-chief and award-winning cultural critic.
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