Art

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August 18, 2011

In February, we did a fundraiser performance for the After School Arts Program at the Pomperaug High School in Southbury, Connecticut. Here’s the pre-show curtain speech from one of our artistic directors Robby Barnett on why we at Pilobolus value arts education and the importance that we place on play within it. We thought this would be relevant to any teacher, student, artist, legislator, voter, or member of American civil society.

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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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Sneak Peek: "Hapless Hooligan in 'Still Moving'"

June 23, 2010

Tomorrow our collaboration with Art Spiegelman, “Hapless Hooligan in ‘Still Moving,’” premieres at Dartmouth College’s Hopkins Center for the Arts.  “Still Moving” is a noirish love story in the style of early comics following the tragicomic tale of Hap and Lulu, separated in life and reunited after death.  Check out the sneak peek video we [...]

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Little inspirations: Arthur Ganson and his incredible kinetic sculptures

June 6, 2010

Whimsy and profundity stand in equal measure in the extraordinary work of Arthur Ganson.  If you are unfamiliar with his unique vision of dance, please watch these two short videos. Ganson sees himself as a combination of “mechanical engineer and choreographer.”  In a TED Talks video, he speaks of the cycle he propagates with his [...]

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For all the Pilobolus collectors out there

March 25, 2010

This month’s cover of Psychology Today features a beautiful photo of two of our dancers, Renee and Mark, who have toured with P7 in the past for a number of years and are now a part of Shadowland. It would make a great little poster. Go find it!

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Another sneak peek…

December 21, 2009

Another sneak peek of our collaboration with Art Spiegelman

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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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Art Spiegelman, Comics Mastermind

December 9, 2009

Pilobolus begins a new piece in collaboration with Art Spiegelman, Comics Mastermind

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