JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC

Programs

1. Presentation: the 2024 festival featured 9-weeks of programming in the historic ted shawn theatre and on the outdoor henry j. Leir stage. We welcomed over 87,750 summer attendees and an incredible roster of artists and companies from all around the world. This season we presented 37 dance companies, were joined by over 7,300 livestream viewers on our digital stage through jacob's pillow live, brought 2 on the road performances into berkshire county, put on 12 pillow talks, installed 5 exhibitions, and hosted two parties and one dance battle. Overall, 504 dancers performed in festival 2024, and out of 105 total festival performances, 21 were pillow debuts

   $8,033,310 spent$2,996,826 earned by the program
   71% of program spending

2. Education: the continuum of educational programs at jacob's pillow delivers accessible arts education experiences to students both on the pillow's campus, in classrooms, and in community spaces. In 2024 the pillow reached over 900 pittsfield students through programs that include curriculum in motion, field trips, steam team summer camp, and workshops and performances as part of the 10x10 upstreet arts festival. The school at jacob's pillow is where dancers and choreographers define and strengthen their distinct artistic voices, while making the connections that advance their work in the field. In 2024, the school at jacob's pillow received a total of 572 applications making it an incredibly competitive year. Across 10.5 weeks, we hosted 5 programs in the school at jacob's pillow featuring 119 artists from around the globe. In 2024, 61 alumni of the school returned to the pillow in performances throughout the festival.

   $1,248,063 spentof which $157,850 as grants$257,849 earned by the program
   11% of program spending

3. Engagement: jacob's pillow community engagement programs serve thousands of berkshire residents every year. Throughout the 2024 festival, our community programs reached over 3,140 people via 76 in-person events both on and off our campus. Our annual community day took place on august 16 welcoming 463 attendees for a day of free, family friendly, all-ages activities. Our beloved community class series offered morning classes in ballet, yoga, contemporary dance, pilates, and hip-hop four days a week with 876 participants attending. Additionally, workshops with festival artists held on the jacob's pillow campus provided 307 community members with an opportunity to experience dance with the artists performing on our stages this summer.

   $680,376 spent$88,467 earned by the program
   6% of program spending

4. Preservation: as jacob's pillow has been shaping the history of dance in america over the past nine decades, it has also been actively documenting and preserving this most ephemeral of art forms, and in the process has created a repository of dance history that is extensive and unique. The collections housed in the archives include audiotapes, board minutes, books, correspondence, costumes, films, photographes, posters, programs, scrapbooks, videos, and more. The archives is one component of the pillow's preservation program, which also documents the ongoing activities of the festival and organizes exhibits exploring various aspects of dance history. The center for most of jacob's pillow's preservation activities in blake's barn, an 18th century building that was relocated to the pillow grounds and reconfigured specifically for this purpose. During the summer, this research facilities is open to the general public daily, and throughout the remainder of the year, the archives may be visited during regular business hours. In 2024 the archives welcomed over 14,000 visitors to blake's barn.

   $895,941 spent
   8% of program spending

5. Creation: the pillow lab is jacob's pillow's year-round incubator for new work. The annual season of bespoke residencies supports u.s.-based and international dance artists during crucial development, research, and technical stage of choreography-driven projects. Pillow lab artists and their collaborators receive unrestricted use of the pillow's state-of-the-art facilities. Artists live on campus and receive in-kind housing, an artist fee for each collaborator, a grocery stipiend, professionally filmed video documentation and a mini-documentary about their work, and access to the pillow's extensive archives. In 2024 we hosted 10 pillow labs and welcomed 85 participating artists to our campus.

   $508,984 spentof which $222,027 as grants
   4% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,366,674.