Slideshow Preview for Pilobolus: 2b
Images of the world premiere of 2b by Pilobolus at the 2009 American Dance Festival. Commentary by Belem Destefani and Sarah Ewald.
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Butoh night in Page Auditorium:
your first responses to two world premieres
One by one, the bodies fell down those three platforms to earth at the start of gosh, I am alive… Then Butoh gradually infested a stageful of people in the opening to Secrets of Mankind.
But what did you make of the two world premieres from Dai Rakuda Kan and Kochuten at Page Auditorium? How do you interpret the costumes? The makeup? The quality of their movement?
We were the first audience to see gosh, I am alive… and Secrets of Mankind. The questions: What stories do they tell us? What do they ultimately say?
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The Independent Review:
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s
“Another Evening: Serenade/The Proposition”
This time out, Janet Wong’s striking video designs provide an appropriate metaphor for Bill T. Jones’ new work, which “searches deeply for connections” through our individual histories and American history, as it parses the tensions between the ideals of inclusion and unity and the social, cultural and political realities of identity. These in a work in progress containing both flaws and “abundant energy and lyricism.”
Read the rest of critic Byron Woods’ analysis of Another Evening: Serenade/The Proposition, taken from this week’s print edition of The Independent Weekly.
The Independent Review:
Aydin Teker’s aKabi
“While three choreographers lured us into their dystopias last week,” writes critic Byron Woods, “one—Aydin Teker’s aKabi—was so overtly like [Kurt] Vonnegut['s work] that the title of a specific short story came to mind in the middle of the performance.”
Could this possibly be a good sign? Read on to find out: the pre-publication of the dance review from this week’s Independent Weekly follows.
The Independent Review: Pilobolus Darkness & Light world premiere
Razor:Mirror, Symbiosis, Lanterna Magica, Nocturna
The raging debate on whether Pilobolus’ new work, Darkness and Light, is actually a dance at all takes us back . . . all the way to Plato’s cave. (Um, would someone alert Dr. Gerry Myers, ADF’s perennial philosopher-in-residence? He’s needed, just now.)
Until the good doctor weighs in, critic Byron Woods asks the symposium these pointed questions: Are Pilobolus’ recent Oscar and Oprah appearances really art? Is Darkness and Light? Or did its world premiere just present “the shadow of modern dance—but not the thing itself?”
The answers may surprise you. Tomorrow’s headlines today, just below; click to read on.
Pilobolus Poll 2:
Strongest work of the night?
Maybe all the talk about Darkness and Light is actually beside the point. What do you think was the strongest work of the night?
- The opening freakshow, Razor: Mirror ?
- Symbiosis, the duet with Jenny Mendez and Manelich Minniefee?
- The mid-show fable with fireflies, Lanterna Magica ?
- Martha Clarke’s Nocturne ?
- That world premiere with puppeteer Basil Twist, Darkness and Light ?
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Pilobolus Poll 1: Darkness and Light
Yeah, but is it dance?
There were differences in opinion in the talkback after Thursday’s world premiere of Pilobolus‘ Darkness and Light.
Some gushed over the live shadow-and-color-play projected on the Page Auditorium screen.
But then there were those thinly-veiled suggestions that it wasn’t even dance, that the dancers did their best to counter. (Which, actually, is more than we can say for Pilobolean choreographers Robby Barnett and Jonathan Wolken, who were missing in action when collaborator and master puppeteer Basil Twist and their dancers were on stage, taking part in the lively post-performance discussion.)
Where do you come down on this?
Is Darkness and Light dance?
If it isn’t, what is it?
Would it have been if we could have actually seen the dancers?
Fourth and final question: Does it matter if it is or not?
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The Independent Review:
The ballroom of our common loss:
Lisa Race and Pilobolus
From the June 27th Independent Weekly… Continue reading »
You saw it here first (or possibly second): exclusive footage of Pilobolus world premiere, “Rushes”
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[[ The company requested we remove the video preview at the end of their week at ADF. ]]
Available only here: a clip from the world premiere of Pilobolus’ Rushes, which company choreographer Robby Barnett created with Israeli choreographer Inbal Pinto and designer Avshalom Pollak.
Want more info? Byron Woods‘ enthusiastic review is just below this post.
Pilobolus’ final 2007 ADF performance is tonight at 8 p.m. in Page Auditorium.
Lisa Race and the ballroom of our common loss; Inbal Pinto, Pilobolus and the dream operator
If you make tracks you can catch one of these on Saturday night, when Pilobolus closes its 2007 ADF stand with what is easily the strongest work we’ve seen from them in years. That would be the world premiere of Rushes, Robby Barnett’s collaboration with Israel’s Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak. Continue reading »
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