259 -261 Genesee Street • Utica, New York 13501Administration: (315) 724 - 1113 • Ticket Office: (315) 724 - 4000

Fax: (315) 732 - 8468 • artscouncil@StanleyCenterForTheArts.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MEDIA CONTACT:John Faust315.724.5919 (Option #2)jfaust@StanleyCenterForTheArts.com

PILOBOLUS Dance Theaterannounces its program for its

March 27 appearance at The Stanley

UTICA, NY (March 16, 2010) - The world-renowned Pilobolus Dance Theater has announced its program for its appearance at The Stanley on March 27, and it

is a mix of signature pieces as well as some innovative new work sure to delight

Stanley audiences, including a special “shadow” performance similar to the work

PILOBOLUS did recently on Late Night with Conan O’Brien.

Works dating from 1981 to 2009 are on the program:

REDLINE (2009) Jonathan Wolken's Redline examines the beauty and futility of

physical battle. Accompanied by a driving and seductive score by Battles and

Page 1 of 4

PILOBOLUS Dance Theater Announces Program for March 27 Stanley Appearance continued…Autechre, this full company work is full of tremulous energy balanced by a

graceful discipline.-More-

RUSHES (2007) is the first in a series of collaborations by Pilobolus Co-Artistic

Director Robby Barnett with the world-renowned dance-theatre makers Inbal

Pinto and Avshalom Pollak.  A mix of movement languages born out of a series

of conversations and a laboratory workshop, Pilobolus/Pinto/Pollak discovers

hybrid terrain in a remarkable exploration of the range and intensity of deep

collaboration.

DOG ID (2009) is a shadow piece in which a young woman is transformed. This

piece was created in collaboration with lead writer for the brilliant animated series

SpongeBob SquarePants, Steven Banks.

GNOMEN (1997), a Pilobolus classic. A quartet for men, Gnomen's lyrical

exploration of relationships emerges from an unusually inventive physical

vocabulary and is dedicated to the memory of the Pilobolus company friend and

colleague, Jim Blanc.

The evening concludes with DAY TWO (1981) – Another one of the classic

works of Pilobolus, Day Two’s tribal atmosphere enacts the second day of the

creation of the world, from its earliest forms of life to the moment at which

creatures of the earth take flight into the air. One of the company’s most amazing

works, set to a soundtrack from Brian Eno and Talking Heads, Day Two captures

the awe of evolution and the wonder of existence.

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.

Page 2 of 4

PILOBOLUS Dance Theater Announces Program for March 27 Stanley Appearance continued…They have also won prestigious dance awards all around the world, including a

prime-time Emmy for outstanding achievement in cultural programming.-More-

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

“living on the edge of our seats”. 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 are priced from $20 to $50. HIGH SCHOOL and COLLEGE STUDENTS

that present their student ID card get the best available ticket for ONLY $10!

Tickets now on sale at the Stanley, 724-4000, online at www.StanleyTIX.com,

and through ticketmaster, 1 800 – 745 – 3000.

Page 3 of 4

PILOBOLUS Dance Theater Announces Program for March 27 Stanley Appearance continued…MetLife is the official tour sponsor for Pilobolus Dance Theater.

# # #

Page 4 of 4