August 1, 2025: Dance through history

We’re learning history through our bodies, and arts and culture everywhere. The twelfth annual Pocumtuck Homelands Festival happens this weekend in Great Falls, honoring the many peoples who have stewarded and called these lands home for millennia with dance, song, vendors who are masters of their craft and more. We’ll chat with Kitty Hendrick Miller of the Mashpee-Wampanoag peoples, about the place events like this have in educating the public, and her ties to Public MediaAnd at Jacob’s Pillow Festival, an innovative blend of afro- and afro-latin social dance has just premiered. Urban Love Suite is a look at movement through the styles of the diaspora from the earliest stolen peoples to the partnered dances of today, and we’ll speak with the artistic force behind the work Sekou McMiller, as well as dramaturg  (and associate curator AND scholar in residence to the festival itself) Melanie George, about the core of the work and the process of bringing it to the Ted Shawn Stage.And the Tina Turner Wine Thunderdome checks unique wines and mission of one label. Stolpman Vineyards with Mary and Ben Daire at Dare Bottleshop and Provisions in Lenox. Plus we'll learn about an event they're curating at Tanglewood as well: Tasting Notes on August 16th.