The new year-round space, “will serve as an incubator for a new generation of artists seeking to integrate technology into live performance and create art native to the digital realm,” said the Pillow’s executive and artistic director Pamela Tatge in a press release. “It will be a porous, indoor/outdoor space for creation, performance, and community engagement that speaks to the lessons we’ve learned during the pandemic about the need for community-building, and our innate connection with nature, which we at the Pillow treasure greatly.”
“Dance artists sorely need the sorts of space, tech, and expertise that the Pillow is assembling right now. This is where the future of the field will come from,” Sydney Skybetter, a consultant on the Doris Duke Theatre project and founder of the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces at Brown University, said in the press…