July 2010

Little Inspirations: Der Lauf der Dinge

July 29, 2010

German for “The Way Things Go,” Der Lauf der Dinge is a Rube Goldberg machine-inspired art film by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss.  Filmed in a warehouse in 1987, the structure is 100 feet long and made out of common household items like tea kettles, tires, and old shoes.  Unlike other Rube Goldberg [...]

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Jonathan Remembered: Pseudopodia

July 27, 2010

We just added one of Pilobolus’ seminal works to our YouTube channel in remembrance of Jonathan Wolken.  “Pseudopodia”, one of Pilobolus’ few solo works, was choreographed by Jonathan in 1973. The term pseudopod refers to “a temporary protrusion of the protoplasm, as of certain protozoans, usually serving as an organ of locomotion or prehension.”  Performed [...]

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Weekly Wrap: Halfway through the Joyce

July 25, 2010

This week we announced the establishment of the Jonathan Wolken Education Fund.  Read more about it here.  Also, at our studio in Washington, Connecticut, the week-long Workshop for Serious Movers took place.  We just posted a video clip of a few of the workshop’s participants on our Facebook page. As of 10:30 PM yesterday night, [...]

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The Jonathan Wolken Education Fund

July 22, 2010

Last Thursday, we celebrated the work and memory of Jonathan Wolken, co-founder and co-artistic director of Pilobolus.  If you weren’t able to attend last week, you can read a personal account of the memorial, written by Walter Jaffe and Paul King, friends and colleagues from White Bird in Portland, Oregon. Jonathan was a choreographer who [...]

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Weekly Wrap: Opening at the Joyce

July 18, 2010

This past week, we opened our 23rd season at the Joyce Theater in NYC.  What a whirlwind week it has been.  Like every Joyce season, we have three programs (each with a selection of 4 or 5 pieces from our repertory), and before the first performance of each program, we are in the theater for [...]

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Mailbag #9: Two Happy Customers

July 15, 2010

We received a message from an audience member at a recent performance in Poughkeepsie NY and we thought we’d share it with you (with her permission, of course): Last month I won front row seats to a performance of one of my favorite dance companies, Pilobolus.  We took our son and he loved it.  He [...]

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Weekly Wrap: Outdoor Fun in Connecticut and Opening Night in New York

July 12, 2010

This past Saturday, we danced the night away at our 6th annual Pilobolus Ball. Many were in attendance at the festive soirée, which featured performances of “Gnomen” and an excerpt of “Contradance” by Pilobolus dancers. Continuing last year’s momentum, the Litchfield Country Friends of Pilobolus aided in the underwriting of another new piece for the [...]

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The 6th Annual Pilobolus Ball

July 9, 2010

From BerkshireFineArts.com: Pilobolus Has a Ball By: Ariel Petrova – 2010-06-22 It wouldn’t be summer in Litchfield County, Connecticut without the hottest party of the season heating up under the stars, this year on Saturday, July 10, on the great lawn at Quatre Vents in Washington. With Honorary Chairman Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter, who [...]

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Hapless Hooligan in the big apple

July 6, 2010

In less than a week, we will open our four-week summer season at the Joyce Theater in New York City.  The headlining piece for Program 1 (the first of 3 programs at the Joyce), ”Hapless Hooligan in ‘Still Moving,’” premiered last week at the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College and is a collaboration with comics artist [...]

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Weekly Wrap: A week of excitement at ADF

July 5, 2010

Since last weekend’s premiere of “Hapless Hooligan in ‘Still Moving’” at Dartmouth, we had a few whirlwind days of rehearsal before premiering “Contradance” at the American Dance Festival in Durham. We arrived in Durham on Tuesday.  The majority of Wednesday was spent in the Durham Performing Arts Center doing a technical and dress rehearsal to [...]

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