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Winter dance

June 2, 2011

In The Land Of The Northern Lights from Ole Christian Salomonsen on Vimeo.

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Seahorse courtship

May 24, 2011
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2011 Summer Pilobolus Workshops and Kids Day Camp

April 13, 2011

You’ve been asking about them and here they are: the 2011 Pilobolus Summer Workshops!  This summer we are pleased to offer 3 Adult Week-Long Workshop Intensives for both experienced dancers and non-experienced movers, plus a One-Week Kids Day Camp. July 18 – 22, THE PILOBOLUS CREATIVE WORKSHOP in Washington Depot, CT The Pilobolus Creative Workshop opens [...]

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Dances with robots

November 19, 2010

Pilobolus’ latest dance in our International Collaborators Project is created with very foreign collaborators: robots. We are working with MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and its Distributed Robotics Lab, led by Daniela Rus and a team of current and former students, to create this unusual dance between two flying robots and a dancer. Set to a [...]

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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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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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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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In memoriam Jonathan Wolken

June 16, 2010

It is with great sorrow that we mourn the death of Jonathan Wolken, one of our founders and artistic directors.  Jonathan passed away on Sunday night at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York after suffering sudden complications from a stem cell transplant.  Jonathan is survived by his wife JoAnne and his four daughters Sarah, Alyssa, [...]

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The best hour you'll spend today

May 28, 2010

There is a fascinating documentary on one of Pilobolus’ foremothers on Hulu right now, “Martha Clarke: Light and Dark.” As one of the original women of Pilobolus, Martha Clarke played a crucial role in our early development and collaborated on some classic Pilobolus works, including “Ciona” (1973), “Monkshood’s Farewell (1974), and “Untitled” (1975).  In fact, [...]

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Weekly Wrap: Egypt canceled, but Portsmouth was a go

May 23, 2010

This past week: P7 performed to an energetic, nearly sold out house in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on Friday evening.  Our performance even inspired an audience member to write about us on her own blog. Earlier that day they taught a master class at the Great Bay Academy of Dance, which was documented in an article [...]

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