Catherine Tharin

The Equus Projects, a NYC-based dance company, featuring both horses and dancers as principal performers, was founded by modern dancer, choreographer, and former Julliard professor, JoAnna Mendl Shaw in 1998.

Three curators of dance and the performing arts, Pam Tatge, Artistic and Executive Director, Jacob’s Pillow, Adam Weinert, Artistic Associate, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, and Elena Siyanko, Executive and Artistic Director, PS 21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, offer insights into festival programming. The curators begin from similar points of view, namely innovation, sustainability, diversity, and inclusion, but each curator’s season is unique.

A cornucopia of dance is offered this summer in the Hudson Valley, Catskill and Berkshire Mountains. Summer showings, from now through September, range from ballet to belly dance to hip hop to crouched polka, a representation of the variety of dance genres presented by adventurous curators.