Pilobolus Returns to Marin Center in Spectacular Program Featuring Four Bay Area Premieres

PILOBOLUS
RETURNS TO MARIN CENTER IN A SPECTACULAR PROGRAM FEATURING FOUR BAY AREA PREMIERES
Friday, February 22, 8 pm
 
When:             Friday, February 22^nd at 8pm
 
Where:           Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium, 10 Avenue of the Flags at Civic Center Drive in San Rafael, CA 94903
 
What:             Celebrating over forty years as one of the nation’s most beloved and pioneering dance companies, PILOBOLUS will present five dances including four Bay Area premieres –  Korokoro and All is Not Lost (2011); Automaton and Azimuth (2012). Also part of the program will be Symbiosis (2001) an emotional and sensuous duet.  PILOBOLUS has been an audience favorite in Marin since 2000.  Founded in 1971 as an outsider dance company, Pilobolus has evolved into a pioneering American cultural institution of the 21st century. 
 
Public Information: Tickets are $50, $35, $25, Premium seats $75, Students 20 and under $20, Bargain seats (rows 25-34) $20; and can be ordered through the Marin Center Box Office at 415-473-6800 or visit www.marincenter.org
 
KOROKORO (2011) blends the company’s signature partnering with the atmospheric styling of their international collaborator Takuya Muramatsu (Dairakudakan) creating a world of surreal physicality that is interested in the making and unmaking of heroes. 
ALL IS NOT LOST(2011) was the live companion to Pilobolus’ video collaboration with the Grammy-winning band OK Go. Playing with multiple perspectives, gravity, and dimensionality, the piece changes the way we look at dance through a kaleidoscopic view of human connection.
 
AUTOMATON (2012) is a new collaboration with the internationally renowned choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui resulting in a cyborg of a dance that questions the difference between human and machine - somewhere between Tron and Bladerunner.    
 
AZIMUTH(2012) is the company’s collaboration with the MacArthur “Genius” Award-winning master juggler Michael Moschen who turns the act of juggling on its side.
SYMBIOSIS(2001) is a male-female duet which traces the birth of a relationship between two creatures sinuously & sensuously intertwined. At once a Darwinian investigation and a love story, Symbiosis never ceases to surprise with its majesty and emotional depth.
 
Pilobolushas received many awards, among them the Berlin Critic's Prize, the Brandeis Award, the Scotsman Award for performances at the Edinburgh Festival, the New England Theatre Conference Prize, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts Award for Excellence and, in 1997, a Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding achievement in cultural programming. In June 2000 Pilobolus received the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for lifetime achievement in choreography. In 2010 Pilobolus was the first collective ever to receive a Dance Magazine Award.
 
In 2007, Pilobolus established the International Collaborators Project (ICP), in which the dance company teams up with visiting artists annually to expand its unique collective choreographic process. Collaborators they have worked with include Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak, the MIT Distributed Robotics Laboratory, Maurice Sendak, Basil Twist, Art Spiegelman, Dan Zanes, Trish Sie and OK Go, Takuya Muramatsu, Radiolab, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, and Michael Moschen—reinventors of engineering, journalism, storytelling, comics, music videos, puppetry, juggling, and dance theater.
 
ABOUT PILOBOLUS
 
Pilobolus is a modern performance company, founded in 1971, that to this day wears its revolutionary stripes on its sleeves. In keeping with its fundamentally collective creative process, Pilobolus Dance Theatre now curates and convenes groups of diverse artists to make inventive, athletic, witty, collaborative performance works on stage and screen using the human body as a medium for expression. Pilobolus makes art to build community. It teaches its group-based creative process to performers and non-dancers alike through popular, unique educational projects and programs. This collection of activities is called the Pilobolus Institute. Pilobolus also applies its method of creative invention to a wide range of movement services for film, advertising, publishing, commercial clients, and corporate events. This division is called Pilobolus Creative Services.
 
The 2012 season marks Pilobolus’s 41st year. In keeping with the energy and spirit of its biological namesake—a phototropic fungus that thrives in farmyards—the company has continued to grow toward the light, expanding and refining its unique methods of collective creative production to assemble a repertoire of over 100 choreographic works. While it has become a stable and influential force in the world of dance, Pilobolus remains as protean as ever, looking forward to the next 40 years of collaborating on the future.
 
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