Adult intensive workshops are designed to get your creative juices flowing, challenge your body and your mind, and open up a world of collaborative and movement-based possibilities.

Pilobolus's founders were not dancers, but curious and interested movers. Pilobolus camps underline our founders' ideas that anyone can dance, and can create dance. Whether you haven't taken a dance class in 20 years, take class regularly, or have never even danced a step, there is a place in a Pilobolus Intensive for you. Pilobolus focuses on how people, working together, can create form and movement to breathtaking effect. In Pilobolus Workshops and Camps, we work with dancers and non-dancers alike to expand the idea of what dance is, and increase collaborative and performance skills.

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WEEK 1

PILOBOLUS: TECHNIQUE + PHILOSOPHY

Open to dancers and non dancers alike, this workshop welcomes all to experience Pilobolus's creative process. This session is playful, group-driven, physically challenging and fun. Participants will explore improvisation and create collaborative choreography. The week ends with a showing for friends and invited guests. Pilobolus fans and curious minds from all walks of life will learn to access untapped areas of creativity and improve effectiveness in a group.

TEACHING WITH THE PILOBOLUS METHOD

In this special two day professional development, work with Pilobolus Education Director, Emily Kent. This program is crafted for educators and instructors keen on integrating the unique techniques and exercises of Pilobolus into their teaching methodologies. Please note: This course is distinct from our Pilobolus Teaching Artist program and does not serve as a certification course. Participants will gain valuable insights and hands-on experience with Pilobolus techniques to enrich their own teaching practices and does not train or qualify attendees to represent themselves as Pilobolus Teaching Artists.

WEEK 2

PERFORMANCE: ONSTAGE + BEYOND

Allowing participants to expand upon a basic knowledge of improvisation and group interaction, this workshop focuses on developing performance and partnering acumen. We will spend time each day learning signature Pilobolus weight-sharing techniques and how to use them in the creative process. Push yourself to experience how the Pilobolus dancers create and perform. This week will include rigorous physical training, improvisation work, partnering, and creating works collaboratively. The week ends with a showing for friends and invited guests.

CONNECTING WITH BALANCE TEACHER TRAINING

Train to become a Connecting with Balance® certified teacher. This workshop shares the techniques and program design to lead your own series of our one-of-a-kind balance program for older adults. This training is great for people who have experience leading other movement modalities (yoga, fitness, dance, tai chi, etc). No previous Pilobolus experience required.

This two-day training will include:

• experiential learning of essential exercises and class flow

• lectures on balance-focused topics

• lesson plans and progressions

• hands-on teaching practice

• pdf training manual

You have a choice of participation in the training:

• live in person

• live on Zoom

• Asynchronous - learn at your own pace with recorded videos of the live training.

  The training will be recorded and all participants will receive the videos of class.

WEEK 3

CREATION: VISION AND REVISION

This workshop explores the depth of the group choreographic process; not just creating, but developing work. The process relies on each individual's knowledge of complex partnering, choreography, collaboration, and direction. Choreographers dig deep in the creative process, as they re-work, polish, edit, and revise. The week culminates with a showing of collaboratively created works. Previous Pilobolus Workshop participation strongly recommended.