The company were invited to perform at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Becket, Massachusetts. It's the 91season for Jacob's Pillow, making it America's longest-running dance festival. It's been described as a"hub and mecca" of dancing by, so it was quite a coup for a Calgary dance company to cop an invite to perform there.
East coast dance lovers also got to experience the value-add that DJD tries to bring to every performance – namely a soundtrack performed by a live band, an increasing rarity in a digital landscape where it's cheaper to roll tape than pay musicians, much to Cooper's dismay.