New York-based contemporary dance artists Katie Workum and Kimberly Bartosik will be featured in an evening of cutting-edge movement in the Hunter Center at MASS MoCA in North Adams on Saturday at 8pm. Workum brings her new piece, “Black Lakes,” full of improvisation, risk, and humor, while Bartosik performs “Ecsteriority4 (Part 2),” which constructs a landscape of power and desire in order to explore violence in American culture today.
The Made in the Berkshires Festival, featuring cutting-edge theatrical works performed as staged readings, live music, film, short stories and dance, all by Berkshire artists, takes place at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield and the Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge tonight through Sunday.
Pianist Walter Ponce will be sitting in the hot seat in the inaugural concert of this season’s Close Encounters With Music chamber series, in a program of epic piano quartets by Brahms and Dvorak at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington on Saturday at 6pm. Joining Ponce are violinist Ara Gregorian, violist Xiao-Dong Wang, and CEWM artistic director Yehuda Hanani on cello.
FilmColumbia concludes its weeklong run this weekend, bringing prize-winning films, including recent work by masters of modern cinema, to Columbia County. FilmColumbia will screen narrative and documentary features, animated and live-action short films and contenders by regional filmmakers at venues in both Chatham and Hudson.
Chuck Prophet, one of contemporary rock’s greatest songwriters, plays a rare, intimate solo show at Club Helsinki Hudson tonight at 9pm. Boston-based twang-rocker Sarah Borges warms up the crowd for Prophet.
The Eccentric Beauties, composed of Dana Pielet and Rita Rack, will play piano for four hands at the Roeliff Jansen Community Library on Sunday at 5pm. The all-French program will include works by Debussy, Bizet, Poulenc, Satie, and Ravel.
And The Orchestra Now, an innovative master’s degree program and training orchestra founded by Bard College, will launch its inaugural performance season at Bard College’s Fisher Center this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, with concerts featuring works by Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Weinberg.
Seth Rogovoy is editor of Berkshire Daily and the Rogovoy Report, available online at rogovoyreport.com