From January 16–18, 2026, Pilobolus returned to Jacob’s Pillow in Becket, MA, for our 2026 Winter Workshop for adults. Twenty-eight movers joined the three-day immersive experience in movement, collaboration, and creative risk-taking. Dancers and non-dancers alike learned to move, listen, and create together using the Pilobolus method as snow fell on the bucolic Berkshire mountains outside.

Led by Education Director Emily Kent and Executive & Co-Artistic Director Renée Jaworski, the weekend invited participants to step into a world of improvisation, trust, and play. Over three days, the group explored foundational Pilobolus movement, including walking together through space, mirroring, tableaus, weight sharing, and collaborative composition, culminating in informal showings of original work created in small groups. The emphasis was never on technical perfection, but on authenticity and collective discovery.

What made this workshop especially memorable was that one of the participants wasn’t just there to move. Berkshire Eagle features reporter Matt Martinez joined the workshop as a full participant, bringing with him no formal dance training but plenty of curiosity. His deeply personal firsthand account of what it feels like to enter the Pilobolus process as a beginner highlighted the vulnerability, the exhilaration, and the quiet transformation that happens when strangers learn to move as one.

We’re grateful to Jacob’s Pillow for hosting us, to the 28 participants who brought their full selves into the room, and to Matt Martinez for so vividly articulating the experience from the inside out.

Read his full reflection in The Berkshire Eagle and step into Pilobolus’s Winter Workshop through his eyes. (PDF version available here!)