LIVE WITH PILOBOLUS

Pilobolus Origins

With Pilobolus Artistic Directors and Robert Pranzatelli, Pilobolus biographer

SHOW DESCRIPTION

In 1970, several young men enrolled at Dartmouth College, took a dance class…to fulfill a physical education requirement.  With interests as diverse as history, philosophy, and psychology, the idea of standing alone, in front of a class, and moving, was frightening.  So they “clung to one another for both moral and physical support” building dances as a collective while at the same time creating something they thought was “cool”.

Following graduation the “company without a name” headed to a member’s dairy farm in Vermont where they continued their movement discoveries; creating choreography that relied on their collective creativity, humor, and interest in telling stories with their bodies.  It was here that PILOBOLUS was born; and audiences loved this new kind of Modern Dance.

Today, Pilobolus is known the world over for testing the limits of human physicality to explore the beauty and the power of connected bodies, collaborating with some of the greatest influencers, thinkers, and creators in the world. 

Author Robert Pranzatelli has been interviewing founders and former dancers and delving into the fascinating and inspiring story behind how Pilobolus came to be. Join Pilobolus Artistic Directors Matt Kent and Renée Jaworski for this unprecedented look into the history of a seriously creative company.

SHOW STRUCTURE

This virtual offering is a discussion interspersed with archival video clips. Artistic Directors will react to and breakdown historical performance videos while bringing the audience on a journey through Pilobolus’s origins and early years.

PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS

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