PILOBOLUS Dance Theater To take the Stanley Stage Saturday March 27, 2010
Date Posted: March 3rd, 2010
UTICA, NY (March 2, 2010) - The world-renowned Pilobolus Dance Theater will perform 8pm Saturday March 27, 2010 at The Stanley.
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.
They have also won prestigious dance awards all around the world, including a prime-time Emmy for outstanding achievement in cultural programming.
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 "Live on the Edge of Your Seat". 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, priced from $20 to $50, are now on sale at the Stanley, 724-4000, online at www.StanleyTIX.com, and through ticketmaster, 1 800-745-3000.
MetLife is the official tour sponsor for Pilobolus Dance Theater.
