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259 -261 Genesee Street • Utica, New York 13501Administration: (315) 724 - 1113 • Ticket Office: (315) 724 - 4000
Fax: (315) 732 - 8468 • [email protected]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MEDIA CONTACT:John Faust315.724.5919 (Option #2)[email protected]
PILOBOLUS Dance Theaterannounces its program for its
March 27 appearance at The Stanley
UTICA, NY (March 16, 2010) - The world-renowned Pilobolus Dance Theater has announced its program for its appearance at The Stanley on March 27, and it
is a mix of signature pieces as well as some innovative new work sure to delight
Stanley audiences, including a special “shadow” performance similar to the work
PILOBOLUS did recently on Late Night with Conan O’Brien.
Works dating from 1981 to 2009 are on the program:
REDLINE (2009) Jonathan Wolken's Redline examines the beauty and futility of
physical battle. Accompanied by a driving and seductive score by Battles and
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PILOBOLUS Dance Theater Announces Program for March 27 Stanley Appearance continued…Autechre, this full company work is full of tremulous energy balanced by a
graceful discipline.-More-
RUSHES (2007) is the first in a series of collaborations by Pilobolus Co-Artistic
Director Robby Barnett with the world-renowned dance-theatre makers Inbal
Pinto and Avshalom Pollak. A mix of movement languages born out of a series
of conversations and a laboratory workshop, Pilobolus/Pinto/Pollak discovers
hybrid terrain in a remarkable exploration of the range and intensity of deep
collaboration.
DOG ID (2009) is a shadow piece in which a young woman is transformed. This
piece was created in collaboration with lead writer for the brilliant animated series
SpongeBob SquarePants, Steven Banks.
GNOMEN (1997), a Pilobolus classic. A quartet for men, Gnomen's lyrical
exploration of relationships emerges from an unusually inventive physical
vocabulary and is dedicated to the memory of the Pilobolus company friend and
colleague, Jim Blanc.
The evening concludes with DAY TWO (1981) – Another one of the classic
works of Pilobolus, Day Two’s tribal atmosphere enacts the second day of the
creation of the world, from its earliest forms of life to the moment at which
creatures of the earth take flight into the air. One of the company’s most amazing
works, set to a soundtrack from Brian Eno and Talking Heads, Day Two captures
the awe of evolution and the wonder of existence.
Since its founding in 1971, Pilobolus Dance Theater is famous for its
imaginative and athletic exploration of creative collaboration. They perform on
stage and on television all over the world, and they are remembered for their
popular appearances on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Academy Awards
Show of 2007 (hosted by Ellen DeGeneres), and on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
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PILOBOLUS Dance Theater Announces Program for March 27 Stanley Appearance continued…They have also won prestigious dance awards all around the world, including a
prime-time Emmy for outstanding achievement in cultural programming.-More-
Lesley Stahl, in her 2006 CBS Sixty Minutes piece, called Pilobolus “the dance
company for those that don’t like dance… and for those that do.”
The company called themselves Pilobolus (named after a peculiar kind of
fungus) as they broke “all the rules” of dance when they started at Dartmouth
College in 1971. They are best known for their signature entanglements of
human bodies that become a kind of living sculpture.
“This evening of Pilobolus Dance Theater will be friendly, daring, and fun,” says
John Faust, Stanley Theatre Manager. “Truly this will live up to our slogan of
“living on the edge of our seats”. We are working with the company to have them
present their most innovative and family friendly pieces in their repertoire on
March 27.
The physical vocabularies of Pilobolus works are not drawn from the traditions of
codified dance movement, but are invented, emerging from intense periods of
improvisation and creative play.
“.. The purest Pilobolus experiences have involved metamorphosis. We see both
physicality and illusion. Bodies become imagery, and one image merges into
another, poetically, inexplicably,” wrote Alistair MacCaulay in the New York
Times.
Tickets are priced from $20 to $50. HIGH SCHOOL and COLLEGE STUDENTS
that present their student ID card get the best available ticket for ONLY $10!
Tickets now on sale at the Stanley, 724-4000, online at www.StanleyTIX.com,
and through ticketmaster, 1 800 – 745 – 3000.
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PILOBOLUS Dance Theater Announces Program for March 27 Stanley Appearance continued…MetLife is the official tour sponsor for Pilobolus Dance Theater.
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