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...Dartmouth's fault. If a cross-country skier, a fencer-folk-dancer, and a pole-vaulter hadn't decided to give modern dance a whirl in a class there in 1970, chances are no one else would ever have come up with what the book's photographer Tim Matson calls "a blend of dance, gymnastics, mime, circus and sculpture." Since then, the original group has evolved into a brash, astonishing, stubbornly unclassifiable performance company of three men and two women, with a home base in Connecticut and a touring schedule which skims them halfway around the globe...
With the gut understanding of a friend who's been with them since they were "barnstorming around the northern country in a busted-up Volkswagen," as he recalls it, Matson has put Pilobolus on paper as no words can. Though Matson describes himself as "a farmer and a writer," he has the eye of a cinematographer--and like his subjects, evidently, the energy of an athlete. "When I'm photographing Pilobolus, I'm down on the floor or flipping, too--it's almost like a sport," he says...
...They have an amazing ability to transform the body into something else," Matson says of Pilobolus. "Without knowing it at first, what they were looking for was a new visual language--something beyond words." They just may have found it. Because if this is dance (and Matson says they don't think of themselves as dancers), it's the first kind in which the members of the audience do not immediately refer to their own bodies in reacting to the movement on stage. Here, a single dancer's body is only one unit in a larger structure; the ambiguity...
...major loss besides Lindsey was the graduation of goaltender Barb Matson. The other co-captain, Carlene Rhodes, will step into the crease this season to mind the twine. Although it will be Rhodes's first year in the pads, she will have strong support up front as Field will employ a new 4-2-3-1 lineup...
...departure of Barb Matson, the team's former goalie, will create the only serious gap in this year's line-up, according to Finch and Rhodes. They called Karen Linsley, who made the Northeastern team this year, the team's outstanding player...