Saturday, June 29

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A preview of the Royal Ballet's Jacob's Pillow engagement by Mary Cargill for Air Mail.

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What to expect at the Pillow? Royal principals Matthew Ball, Mayara Magri, Marcelino Sambé, Anna Rose O’Sullivan, and Sarah Lamb will dance works by Ashton, MacMillan, and Christopher Wheeldon, who cut his teeth at the Royal. A world premiere from McGregor and the U.S. premiere of Secret Things, by Pam Tanowitz, are also scheduled. And on opening night, the celebrated ballerina Natalia Osipova dances Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan—Ashton’s 1976 salute to the legendary dancer he loved. “She had a wonderful way of running forward,” he said of Duncan, “in which she, what I call, left herself behind and you felt the breeze running through her hair.” Breezes, historical and spontaneous, are common coin at Jacob’s Pillow.