The gravity-defying, visually astounding choreography of modern dance company Pilobolus has captivated audiences around the globe for more than three decades with their remarkable and bizarre creative collaboration which applies no boundaries to the human form. Over the years, Pilobolus has continued to grow, expanding and refining its unusual collaborative methods to produce a body of over 100 choreographic works. While it has become an institution and a genre unto itself in the world of American dance theater, Pilobolus remains as innovative and influential as ever.
CAPA presents Pilobolus at the Palace Theatre (34 W. Broad St.) on Thursday, May 6, at 8 pm. Tickets are $34.50, $30, and $25 and at the Ohio Theatre Ticket Office (39 E. State St.), any Ticketmaster Outlet, or ticketmaster.com. To purchase tickets by phone, please call (614) 469-0939 or (800) 745-3000. The Palace Theatre Ticket Office will open two hours prior to the performance. Students between the ages of 13-19 may purchase $5 High Five tickets while available.
Pilobolus is based in Washington Depot, Connecticut, and performs for stage and television audiences all over the world. Pilobolus works appear in the repertories of many major dance companies including the Joffrey, Feld, Ohio, Arizona, and Aspen/Santa Fe Ballets in the US; the Ballet National de Nancy et de Lorraine and the Ballet du Rhin in France; and Italy's Verona Ballet. The company has also recently begun a series of major creative collaborations through its International Collaborators Project, including new productions with the famed writer and illustrator
Maurice Sendak; the Israeli choreographic team Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak; and the remarkable American puppeteer
Basil Twist.
The company has received a number of prestigious honors, including the Berlin Critic's Prize, the Brandeis Award, the New England Theatre Conference Prize, and a Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding achievement in cultural programming. In June 2000, Pilobolus received the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for lifetime achievement in choreography. In 2007, Robby Barnett, Michael Tracy, and Jonathan Wolken received the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Endowment Fellowship from Dartmouth College.
The company has also been featured, with great popularity, on a variety of broadcast media including "60 Minutes," The Academy Awards hosted by
Ellen Degeneres, "The
Oprah Winfrey Show," and "The Late Show with
Conan O'Brien."
Pilobolus revolves around three nuclei of activity-Pilobolus Dance Theatre, the umbrella for a series of radically innovative and globally acclaimed concert dance companies; The Pilobolus Institute, a unique educational program for schools, colleges, and public arts organizations as well as a series of classes and leadership workshops for corporate executives, employees, and business schools; and Pilobolus Creative Services, a division specializing in a wide range of movement services for film, advertising, publishing, commercial clients, and corporate events.
The physical vocabularies of Pilobolus works are not drawn from traditions of codified dance movement but are invented, emerging from intense periods of improvisation and creative play. This process has been the source of much interest, in response to which the company inaugurated The Pilobolus Institute, an educational outreach program using the art of choreography as a model for creative thinking in any field. The Institute offers sustained programs around the country for both children and adults, non-dancers as well as dancers, and a series of leadership workshops for corporations and business schools. Recent work includes programs at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business, and the Babcock School at Wake Forest University. The Institute also maintains an ongoing residency in the theater studies program at Yale University.
The third arm of the company's activity, Pilobolus Creative Services (PCS), is a choreographic and performance collective providing movement design and production for commercial applications in business and advertising. PCS has made television spots for Mobil, Ford, Toyota, Opel, and Hyundai; created live events for IBM, McKinsey, United Technologies, Dupont, and Merck; and presented gala performances for Joe Boxer, Marithe Girbaud,
MAC Cosmetics, Krizia, Heidelburg Druckmaschinen, UBS Investment Bank, and Orange, a key brand of French Telecom. PCS has also produced two books for national distribution, Twisted Yoga and The Human Alphabet, and releases an annual calendar of dance photography in collaboration with a number of noted American photographers.
www.pilobolus.com
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