Created by
Renée Jaworski and Matt Kent
in collaboration with Hannah Klinkman, Derion Loman and Connor Chaparro, Ryan Hayes, Isaac Huerta, Darren Robinson, and Jessica Robling

Music: Luke Styles
Costume Design: Márion Talán de la Rosa
Lighting Design: Thom Weaver

About Virtuous + Vicious

Pilobolus’s newest quartet explores the fragile feedback loops that shape human relationships and inner life. Small gestures accumulate into patterns, some nurturing, some destructive, mirroring the virtuous and vicious cycles we experience in our own minds. A moment of trust can build momentum toward connection; a moment of doubt can spiral into tension and imbalance.

Playful, hypnotic, and physically intricate, the dancers move through an evolving system of cause and effect: catching one another before collapse, interrupting destructive patterns, and reigniting motion when it falters. What emerges is a living choreography of interdependence, where bodies think, react, and adapt in real time.

The work unfolds to an original score by Luke Styles, the London-based composer and sound artist known for blending contemporary composition with immersive electronic sound worlds. Drawing from minimalist traditions while embracing modern electronic textures, Styles creates music built from layered pulses, shifting harmonies, and evolving loops. His score for Virtuous + Vicious mirrors the choreography’s internal logic: patterns accumulate, fracture, and rebuild, creating a sonic landscape that pulses with tension, release, and transformation.

Together, movement and music form a living feedback system, revealing how easily we fall into cycles, and how awareness, collaboration, and care can transform even the most difficult loops into something generative.

Virtuous + Vicious was generously supported by Holiman Hackney Family Fund in honor of Cleg Holiman.