The School at Jacob’s Pillow 360 Workshops provide pre-professional and early career dancers ages 14+ an opportunity to learn from acclaimed dancers, teachers, and choreographers. Led by Artist Faculty and School Alumni, Jacob’s Pillow 360 Workshops include a movement class and an Info Session for dancers to ask questions and hear personal Pillow experiences from alumni and faculty. Offered in a diverse selection of styles, 360 Workshops are designed to inspire and connect dancers to the Pillow’s network of established artists in the field.

Bessie Award winner and New York Times critically acclaimed Breakout Star of 2021, LaTasha Barnes is a multi-hyphenate Tradition-bearer of Black American Social Dance from Richmond, VA. A dynamic educator, performer, and choreographer, Barnes is globally celebrated for her musicality, athleticism, and infectiously joyful presence throughout the cultural traditions she bears: House, Hip Hop, Waacking, Authentic Jazz, and Lindy Hop, among them. Her expansive artistic, competitive, and performative skills have made her a frequent collaborator to Dorrance Dance, Timbre Arts Group (Singapore), Ephrat Asherie Dance, and many more. Her leadership and business acumen have placed her in positions of service as Chair of the Board of Trustees for Ladies of Hip-Hop FestivalⓇ, Vice President of Marketing & Outreach for the International Lindy Hop ChampionshipⓇ, Co-Director of the Black Lindy Hoppers Fund and HellaBlackLindyHop Performance Troupe, Board Member of the Frankie Manning Foundation, and a contributing member to the NEFER Global Movement Collective.

Expanding the scope of impact for the communities she serves, LaTasha completed her self-designed Master’s Degree in Ethnochoreology, Black Studies, and Performance Studies at New York University Gallatin School in 2019. Her thesis and continuing dance research are working to bridge the gap between communities of practice and academic cultural dance research, performance, preservation, and pedagogy, as well as expand the reach of dance as a healing tool for US military veterans like herself. In concert with these efforts, she is deeply honored to be a part of the Brain Trust developing the ground-breaking stage production SW!NGOUT, bringing the passion and power of Lindy Hop and its community to the concert stage. She is honored to be the visionary and Artistic Director of the intergenerational and intercommunal cultural arts experience, The Jazz Continuum, supported by Guggenheim Works & Process and Jacob’s Pillow in 2021. This two time Bessie Award winning exploration has recently been presented by the Joyce Theater (2022), Celebrity Series Boston (2023), Bates Dance Festival (2023), and was awarded a NEFA National Dance Project Grant. In support of the dialogue surrounding cultural art forms, LaTasha is a contributing author to the 2022 National Dance Education Organization Ruth Lovell Murray Book Award winning text Rooted Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century (2021). Ensuring future artists and dance scholars maintain authentic cultural context as they move through the world bearing forth Black dance traditions, LaTasha is honored to serve on the faculty of Arizona State University School of Music, Dance & Theater as Assistant Professor of Dance.

Across all her efforts, LaTasha’s eternal purpose is to inspire fellow artists and arts enthusiasts to champion æffective artivism through cultivating an authentic sense of self and intention in their creative expressions and daily lives.

 Dolly Sfeir is a director and choreographer who grew up in Lebanon and moved to the States at the age of 19. She is a 2022 NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellow in Choreography, the 2019 Grand Prize winner of the Palm Desert Choreography Competition, recipient of a 2023 NYSCA choreography grant, and a recipient of The Ann & Weston Hicks Choreography Fellowship at Jacob’s Pillow. She was awarded a residency with CUNY Dance Initiative to create an evening-length work which premiered at LPAC in Spring 2022, and was artist-in-residence for Abingdon Theatre Company. Her company commissions include Holstebro Dansekompagni in Denmark, WHIM W’HIM, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, Battery Dance Company, Boca Tuya, and Litvak Dance. She has been a guest choreographer and creative practice teacher at universities such as Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Marymount Manhattan College, Chapman University, Montclair University, CSU Long Beach, Orange Coast College and CSU Fullerton.

She has developed a creative practice methodology, focused on unleashing creativity which she offers in universities, studios, and theaters nationally and internationally. She led a course in the methodology at Chapman University. New Dialect has offered her and collaborator James Barrett a research residency for a new duet. Her work has been performed in venues and festivals such Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Battery Dance Festival, Diavolo Dance Theatre, and Dance Gallery Festival. Her film “It Cries too Loudly” has been at dozens of festivals such as San Francisco Dance Film Festival and Portland Film Fest, and has received awards such as ‘best short film’ (Wild Dogs Festival) and ‘best cinematography’ (Eastern Europe film festival). She is movement director of the upcoming play “The Pride Before.” Her work “Everybody is happy these days” toured in Denmark. She graduated summa cum laude from CSU Long Beach with a Dance BFA. In Lebanon, Sfeir appeared in nationwide musicals by the Rahbani Brothers including work choreographed by Debbie Allen.