Word: pilobolus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Future weeks of the festival will feature the Boston Concert Dance Company, the New England Dinosaur, and the Hartford Ballet. The concert dance company, which revives classic modern pieces ranging from Doris Humphrey's "Day on Earth" to the unique acrobatics of Pilobolus, will perform in the Boston University Theater the weekend of June 1 and 2. Dinosaur, Boston's oldest modern dance troupe, dances the weekend of May 25 and 26, also in the B.U. Theater. Founded in 1968 by choreographer Toby Armour, the group has toured nationally with numerous performances in New York. Armour was a member...
...Pilobolus also nudges one's normal sense of space into a frame of relativity. After all, can you swear up is really up when there are three people on stage with their feet pointing toward the ceiling...
...risky to theorize too much about Pilobolus. According to Matson, their choreography (always created collectively) proceeds more by intuition than by conceptualization. "Pilobolus goes straight to the heart; watching them, you can put your intellect away for a while," he says. And, both literally and figuratively, they're a refreshingly earthy bunch--"absolutely bawdy," says Matson, and "just as at home rolling around on the floor as standing...
...pillow-fight: zany, uninhibited, with an unerring sense of propriety's absurdity and no holds barred. "It's real, and it's natural--there's so much innate pleasure in it for them, which is contagious," says Matson. But don't be fooled. Once you've seen Pilobolus, or Matson's book, neither a dancer's body nor your own will ever look quite the same again...
...Pilobolus, a book of photographs by Tim Matson, is published by Random House...