ADF

Meet Wedee, ADF’s first Jonathan Wolken scholarship student

July 21, 2011

While at the American Dance Festival this summer we met the first Jonathan Wolken scholarship student, Wedee Kao.  We sat down with Wedee between classes for a little chat. Where are you from and how did you begin dancing? Wedee: I was born in Chicago and then moved to Taiwan. I moved back to the [...]

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A full summer for Pilobolus

July 8, 2011

Last weekend we made news at the 2011 American Dance Festival.  We premiered 3 works at the annual summer dance festival:  “Korokoro,” a collaboration with Japanese butoh artist Tayuka Muramatsu; “Seraph,” created in collaboration with MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and “All Is Not Lost,” a collaboration with the Grammy award-winning rock band OK Go and Trish [...]

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Our newest collaborator, Takuya Muramatsu of Dairakudakan

April 28, 2011

Having completed our project with OK Go and Trish Sie, we are starting a new collaboration with Takuya Muramatsu of Dairakudakan, one of Japan’s leading butoh companies.  Takuya Muramatsu is a principal dancer and choreographer with Dairakudakan since 1994, and head of the Dairakudakan school.  The new work, commissioned by the American Dance Festival as part of its [...]

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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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Contradance at the American Dance Festival

July 3, 2010

photo by Dorian Mode Photography On Thursday evening, “Contradance,” our collaboration with musician Dan Zanes, premiered to much applause at the Durham Performing Arts Center as a part of the American Dance Festival.  There was a review in the News & Observer and a slide show of photos from the performance.  Some of our fans [...]

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Meet the blogger

November 28, 2009

Jeffrey Huang, Interactive Media Marketing Manager for Pilobolus, introduces himself and talks about how he got involved with the dance company.

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