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Jacob's Pillow: The Center Will Not Hold celebrates resistance in the best way – with dance

Tomoe “Beastie” Carr in The Center Will Not Hold
© Christopher Duggan
The Center Will Not Hold at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival 2025
© Christopher Duggan
John Angeles and Michelle Dorrance in The Center Will Not Hold
© Christopher Duggan
Zakhele “Bboy Swazi” Grabowski in The Center Will Not Hold
© Christopher Duggan
The Center Will Not Hold at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival 2025
© Jamie Kraus
Von Gillian Ebersole, 28 Juni 2025
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“the whole work feels liberatory in its quest for solidarity and resilience”
Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Ted Shawn Theatre, Becket, am 28 Juni 2025
Programm
The Center Will Not Hold (Michelle Dorrance, Ephrat "Bounce" Asherie)
Darsteller
Kathy Kaufmann, Licht
John Angeles, Percussion
Ephrat "Bounce" Asherie, Tanz
Michelle Dorrance, Tanz
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The Center Will Not Hold: Dorrance Dance thrills at Sadler’s Wells
Daniel Pratt, 17th April
Dorrance Dance offer a compelling mix of genres in The Center Will Not Hold – high energy, full of surprises, top quality performances.
****1
Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends: bubbling over with passion
Amanda Jennings, 12th March
Last seen in London in 2023, Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends made a hugely welcome return with the same programme, differently ordered. 
****1
Speak: four icons of dance in fleet-footed exchange at 92nd St Y
Carla Escoda, 21st February
Rachna Nivas, Rukhmani Mehta, Dormeshia and Michelle Dorrance joined forces with top-notch Indian classical and jazz musicians to deliver an imaginative tour de force of kathak and tap.
*****
Stylish and stirring: Turn It Out With Tiler Peck & Friends
Carla Escoda, 16th October
Much acclaimed in 2022, a mixed bill curated by Tiler Peck returns to New York City Center with new cast members.  
****1
Dorrance Dance's Nutcracker Suite a toe-tapping treat at the Joyce
Ivy Lin, 17th December
Does the world really need another Nutcracker? Turns out the answer is yes, if it's as clever and well-done as Michelle Dorrance's version.
*****
BalletNOW suffers from miscasting
Jeff Slayton, 28th July
BalletNOW returns to the Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center in Los Angeles. The production features dancers from six different major ballet companies, but fails to impress.
***11
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Gillian Ebersole
Gillian Ebersole

Gillian Ebersole is a dancer and choreographer, as well as a poet, dance writer and educator. Gillian graduated Summa Cum Laude from Loyola Marymount University with a dual degree in Dance and English. Their first poetry book The Water Between Us received the Charlotte Mew Prize and was published by Headmistress Press in 2021. Gillian lives and creates in Berkshire County with their partner.