Pilobolus @ American Dance Festival
We went to see Pilobolus at the American Dance Festival at Duke University last night with our friends Molly and Susanne. (Here’s the program.) I don’t know much about dance, so our conversation afterwards was somewhat limited to “wasn’t it amazing when …” and “that was so impressive when they …” and “that one with the chairs was unbelievable,” and I found myself wishing that my sister was there to offer her movement thoughts. She was responsible for my last modern dance excursion, when our family went to see Alvin Ailey at Christmas time in NYC, for free, because my sister is cool like that. Anyway, my point: if you have a chance to see them, you should.
June 28th, 2007 at 11:43 am
just going through and catching up on yours and mom’s blogs now that i have some time. Pilobolus was actually the first dance group i saw that turned me on to any sort of dance as an art-form that i would be interested in. I have actually never seen them live (only on tape in classes) as their tickets in the city are usually $60 or more. They have been around forever and started as a dance/acrobatic collective when the original members were in college. So glad you got to see them. They are a super-unique group. And you had all the correct responses as your comments are the point of their work.
(sorry, was all this too pretentious-artist of me?)