Profiles

Featured interviews with Pilobolus’ dancers and collaborators.

Collaborator, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

January 29, 2013

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s debut as a choreographer was in 1999 with Andrew Wale’s ‘contemporary musical’,  Anonymous Society. Since then he has made more than 15 fully-fledged choreographic pieces and picked up a slew of awards, including the Fringe First award in Edinburgh, the special prize at the BITEF Festival in Belgrade, the promising choreographer prize [...]

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Dancer, Morgan Houghton

June 21, 2011

Morgan Houghton hails from Seattle, Washington, where he graduated from the University of Washington in 2009 with degrees in Dance and Asian Studies.  Morgan began his professional dance career in 2007 working in the Seattle Opera’s production of Aida.  Since then he has danced with Seattle companies such as The Cabiri, Jerboa Dance, Karin Stevens [...]

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Costume Designer, Liz Prince

October 8, 2010

If you’ve ever been to one of our performances after 2003, you’ve likely seen the work of Liz Prince, our costume designer.  Liz, who received a Bessie award in 1990 for outstanding costume design, has designed and created dozens of costumes for us, from the fishy costumes in “Aquatica” to the military guerrilla outfits in [...]

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Dancer, Jordan Kriston

September 22, 2010

Where are you from?  Where did you get your training?  What’s your background? Jordan: I grew up in Phoenix, Arizona  and played sports my entire life.  Basketball, softball, volleyball, swimming…pretty much any sport I loved.  I got into dance as a teenager, taking it as an elective in high school.  I originally studied dance in [...]

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Dancer, Lauren Yolango

May 7, 2010

Backstage with Lauren Yolango, Dancer Lauren Yolango was born in New York and began her dance training at the Jacksonville Ballet Theater under Dulce Anaya.  She continued her training at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she received her BFA in 2005.  That same year, she also became a certified personal trainer through the [...]

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Dancer, Nile Russell

April 7, 2010

Nile is a dichotomy.  His dedication and perseverance are testaments to his strong work ethic, yet, at the same time, he’s the life of the party everywhere he goes.  He’s an “old soul” with as much youth and vibrance as a hummingbird.  He can find balance off-balance and turn the everyday into the extraordinary. Backstage [...]

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Dancer, Eriko Jimbo

February 23, 2010

Eriko Jimbo is a powerhouse on stage and in the studio.  With an exceptionally diverse background in various forms of movement, and a passionate love for music, her physicality and style are impressive and unique. Backstage with Eriko Jimbo Jimbo was born in Japan, and since the age of three has lived all over the [...]

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Dancer, Matt Del Rosario

January 26, 2010

Matt explores life with a childlike curiosity and a youthful heart.  As such, his improvisations are playful and unexpected.  He can often be seen experimenting with a new move, discovering ways to make it fit his body.  His investigative qualities are personified in his role in “2B,” a quartet he collaborated on and was ultimately [...]

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Dancer, Jun Kuribayashi

December 16, 2009

If you’ve seen a Pilobolus show recently, you may remember seeing a solo called “Pseudopodia,” which features a dancer in a red unitard tumbling and somersaulting all over the stage like a tumbleweed freshly catapulted from an exploding gas station.  Or maybe you’ve seen Jun being lifted weightlessly to the sky in the men’s quartet [...]

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