JULY 2, 2009 ISSUE
Pilobolus Dance Company Returns to App Summer July 7
The world-renowned Pilobolus dance company will return to Farthing Auditorium on Thursday, July 7. Photo by John Kane
Pilobolus began in 1971 as an outsider dance company and quickly became renowned all over the world for its imaginative and athletic exploration of creative collaboration. Nearly 40 years later, it has evolved into a pioneering American cultural institution of the 21st century.
On Tuesday, July 7, at 8:00 p.m., Pilobolus will return once again to Farthing Auditorium to help celebrate App Summer’s 25th anniversary season.
The company continues to grow, expanding and refining its unusual collaborative methods to produce a body of more than 100 choreographic works, and while it has become a genre unto itself in the world of American dance theater, Pilobolus remains as innovative and influential as ever. The physical vocabularies of Pilobolus’ works are not drawn from traditions of codified dance movement, but are invented, emerging from intense periods of improvisation and creative play.
Pilobolus has been featured, with great popularity, on broadcast media: in 2004, CBS’ 60 Minutes; in 2007, the Academy Awards hosted by Ellen Degeneres, and shortly thereafter, The Oprah Winfrey Show; and most recently on Late Night with Conan O’Brien.
Pilobolus Dance Theatre last performed at An Appalachian Summer Festival in 2006, when a sold-out crowd received the company’s performance with thunderous applause and a standing ovation.
Tickets for Pilobolus are $25 for adults, $15 for ASU students, $16 for students ages 6 to 18 and $10 for kids 12 and under. The festival offers two flexible ticket passes: the “Pick 5” offers a 15 percent discount off of ticket purchases in multiples of five; the “Festival Pass” offers a 25 percent discount and priority seating for those who purchase a ticket to each performance.
For more information, call 828-262-4046 or click to www.appsummer.org.
Want To Go?
Date: Thursday, July 7
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Location: Farthing Auditorium
Cost: $25 adults/$16 students 6 to 18/$15 ASU students/$10 kids 12 & under
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