Weekly Review

Don’t Just Dance! Read! Leap! Think! Run!

October 11, 2011

Pilobolus has enjoyed an exciting week, both at home and abroad. A few highlights: SHADOWLAND has been selected to receive Mexico’s 2011 Lunas del Auditorio award in the category of modern dance. Since 2002, the Lunas del Auditorio Awards have been presented by Mexico City’s Auditorio Nacional to acknowledge the best live performances that took [...]

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A busy week!

October 16, 2010

We were unusually busy this past week, tapping every human resource to divide our attention three ways: P7, our  main touring company, finished their California trip last weekend in San Rafael and returned to Connecticut for a few days of rehearsal before heading out on the road again to Rockford and Bloomington, Illinois.  Next Friday [...]

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Catching Up: Alberta, Rhode Island, and Colombia

September 30, 2010

Things have been pretty busy this past week, but we’re finally publishing our second  post on the new blog.  Here’s what’s been going on: Pilobolus’ main touring company, which we nicknamed “P7″ (referring to the seven dancers in the company), toured to Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta, ending Canada’s long Pilobolus dry spell.  They had great [...]

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Weekly Wrap: Three weeks down, one more to go

August 2, 2010

This past week: We posted a video excerpt of one of Jonathan Wolken’s earliest creations on YouTube.  “Pseudopodia,” which Jonathan taught to two generations of Pilobolus dancers, most recently Pilobolus’ dance captain Jun Kuribayashi, is being performed three more times at the Joyce Theater in NYC this week.  Catch it in Program 3 on August [...]

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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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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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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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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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Weekly Wrap: Remembering Jonathan and Dartmouth

June 27, 2010

This past week: We posted on YouTube a sneak peek video of our collaboration with Art Spiegelman, “Hapless Hooligan in ‘Still Moving,’” which just had its world premiere at the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College.  We performed for three sold-out audiences, three evenings in a row.  Dartmouth posted the highlights on their [...]

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Weekly Wrap: Arthur Ganson, Damon Honeycutt, and baby balancing

June 13, 2010

This past week: P7 has been in the studio all week finishing up the Art Spiegelman collaboration Hapless Hooligan in “Still Moving”, which premieres at our shows at The Hopkins Center in Hanover NH on June 24th, 25th, and 26th. Dance Captain Jun Kuribayashi modeled his Hapless Hooligan costume, designed by Liz Prince, on TwitPic: [...]

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