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RETURNS TO
THE JOYCE
THEATER
(175 EIGHTH AVENUE)
FOUR WEEKS
THREE PROGRAMS
TWO NEW YORK
PREMIERES
ONE WORLD
PREMIERE
JULY 13
– AUGUST 8
It wouldn’t be summer without the
international sensation Pilobolus Dance
Theatre at The Joyce Theater for
its annual four-week season, this year from July 13 – August 8. With three distinct programs, including two New York premieres and one
world premiere, this engagement is sure to be the hot ticket of the summer. To purchase tickets, please call the
JoyceCharge at 212-242-0800 or visit joyce.org. The Joyce Theater is
located at 175 Eighth Avenue (at 19th Street).
Program 1: Redline
The
first of three premieres this season, Jonathan Wolken’s Redline examines the beauty and futility of physical battle.
Accompanied by a driving and seductive score by Battles and Autechre, this full
company work is full of tremulous energy balanced by a graceful
discipline. The program also
includes Darkness and Light, Walklyndon and Rushes.
Program 2: Dog•id
The
company’s latest exploration of dance/theater made with shadows, this world
premiere is a collaboration between Pilobolus and Steven Banks (head writer for
the hilarious animated series “SpongeBob SquarePants”). Dog•id features music by David Poe and explores the phantasmagorical inner life of a
young girl swept into a shifting world made of lightness and dark. Also in this
program: Pseudopodia, Gnomen, Lanterna Magica and Megawatt.
Program 3: 2b
This brand-new collaboration with the
wonderful Israeli choreographers Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak, co-creators
of 2007’s hit Rushes, ushers us onto
a surreal boulevard of broken dreams while the music rotates back and forth
from Hawaiian pop to Bach. The
program also includes Pseudopodia,
Razor : Mirror, Symbiosis and Day Two (contains
nudity).
ABOUT PILOBOLUS DANCE THEATRE
Pilobolus began in 1971 as an outsider dance
company, and quickly became renowned the world over for its imaginative and
athletic exploration of creative collaboration.
Nearly 40 years later, it has evolved into a
pioneering American arts organization of the 21st century. The company now
revolves around three nuclei of activity: PILOBOLUS DANCE THEATRE, the umbrella
for a series of radically innovative and globally acclaimed concert dance
companies; THE PILOBOLUS INSTITUTE, unique educational programming for schools,
colleges, and public arts organizations as well as a series of classes and
leadership workshops for corporate executives, employees, and business schools;
and PILOBOLUS CREATIVE SERVICES, a division specializing in a wide range of
movement services for film, advertising, publishing, commercial clients, and
corporate events.
Pilobolus
is based in Washington Depot, Connecticut and performs for stage and television
audiences all over the world. Pilobolus
works appear in the repertories of major dance companies–the Joffrey,
Feld, Ohio, Arizona, and Aspen/Santa Fe Ballets in the U.S., the Ballet
National de Nancy et de Lorraine and the Ballet du Rhin in France, and Italy’s
Verona Ballet–and the company has recently begun a series of major
creative collaborations, including new productions with the famed writer and
illustrator, Maurice Sendak; the Israeli choreographic team, Inbal Pinto and
Avshalom Pollak; and the remarkable American puppeteer, Basil Twist.
Pilobolus
has received a number of prestigious honors, including the Berlin Critic’s
Prize, the Brandeis Award, the New England Theatre Conference Prize, and 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 and in 2004 the company was featured on CBS’ “60 Minutes.” In 2007 Robby Barnett, Michael Tracy
and Jonathan Wolken received the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Endowment
Fellowship from Dartmouth College.
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. This process has been the source of much interest, in response to which
the company inaugurated the Pilobolus Institute, an educational outreach
program using the art of choreography as a model for creative thinking in any
field. The Institute offers sustained programs for both children
and adults around the country, as well as a series of Leadership Workshops for
corporations and business schools. Recent work includes programs at the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business, and the Babcock
School at Wake Forest University. The Institute also maintains an ongoing residency in the Theater Studies
Program at Yale University.
The
third arm of the company's activity is Pilobolus Creative Services (PCS), a
choreographic and performance collective providing movement design and
production for commercial applications in business and advertising. PCS has made television spots for
Mobil, Ford, Toyota, Opel, and Hyundai, created live events for IBM, McKinsey,
United Technologies, Dupont, and Merck, and has presented gala performances for
Joe Boxer, Marithe Girbaud, MAC Cosmetics and Krizia. In 2007, the company created and presented six acclaimed
performances during the 79th Annual Academy Awards, as well producing a series
of original segments for the “Oprah Winfrey Show” and “Late Night with Conan
O’Brien.” PCS has also produced two books for national distribution, Twisted Yoga and The Human Alphabet, and releases an annual calendar of dance
photography in collaboration with a number of noted American photographers. In
spring 2009, a spot that Pilobolus Creative Services created for the NFL
Network was nominated for an Emmy Award in Sports, and the company’s website
was nominated for a Webby Award in Best Photography.
The
2009 season marks the middle of Pilobolus’ 39th year. The company has continued to grow, expanding and refining
its unusual collaborative methods to produce a body of over 100 choreographic
works, and while it has become a stable and influential force in the world of
dance, Pilobolus remains as protean and surprising as ever.
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Pilobolus will perform according to
the following schedule at The Joyce Theater from July 13 – August 8: Monday – Wednesday at 7:30pm,
Thursday and Friday at 8:00pm, and Saturday at 2:00pm and 8:00pm. Tickets for these
performances are $19; $35; $59 (for Joyce members $26; $44), and can be
arranged by calling JoyceCharge at 212-242-0800 or online at Joyce.org. NOTE: Ticket prices
are subject to change. The Joyce Theater is located at 175 Eighth
Avenue at 19th Street. For more information on the company, please visit www.Pilobolus.org.
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PILOBOLUS
Joyce Theater Schedule
Week 1
Monday, July 13 Special
Opening Program ✸ 7:30
PM
Tuesday, July 14 Program
1 / REDLINE 7:30
PM
Wednesday, July 15 Program
2 / Dog•id 7:30
PM
Thursday, July 16 Program
2 / Dog•id 8:00
PM
Friday, July 17 Program
1 / REDLINE 8:00
PM
Saturday, July 18 Program
2 / Dog•id 2:00
PM
Saturday, July 18 Program
1 / REDLINE 8:00
PM
Week 2
Monday, July 20 Program
3* / 2b 7:30
PM
Tuesday, July 21 Program
3* / 2b 7:30
PM
Wednesday, July 22 Program
1 / REDLINE 7:30
PM
Thursday, July 23 Program
3* / 2b 8:00
PM
Friday, July 24 Program
2 / Dog•id 8:00
PM
Saturday, July 25 Program
1 / REDLINE 2:00
PM
Saturday, July 25 Program
2 / Dog•id 8:00
PM
Week 3
Monday, July 27 Program
2 / Dog•id 7:30
PM
Tuesday, July 28 Program
3* / 2b 7:30
PM
Wednesday, July 29 Program
3* / 2b 7:30
PM
Thursday, July 30 Program
1 / REDLINE 8:00
PM
Friday, July 31 Program
1 / REDLINE 8:00
PM
Saturday, August 1 Program
2 / Dog•id 2:00
PM
Saturday, August 1 Program
3* / 2b 8:00
PM
Week 4
Monday, August 3 Program
1 / REDLINE 7:30
PM
Tuesday, August 4 Program
2 / Dog•id 7:30
PM
Wednesday, August 5 Program
3* / 2b 7:30
PM
Thursday, August 6 Program
1 / REDLINE 8:00
PM
Friday, August 7 Program
2 / Dog•id 8:00
PM
Saturday, August 8 Program
2 / Dog•id 2:00
PM
Saturday, August 8 Program
3* / 2b 8:00
PM
✸Special opening night program will
feature Redline, Dog•id and other works TBA.
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Program 3 contains partial nudity.
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The Joyce Theater
Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization, has proudly served the dance community and
its audiences since 1982. The
founders, Cora Cahan and Eliot Feld, acquired and renovated the Elgin Theater
in Chelsea, which opened as The Joyce Theater in 1982. The Joyce is named in
honor of Joyce Mertz, beloved daughter of LuEsther T. Mertz. It was LuEsther’s clear, undaunted
vision and abundant generosity that made it imaginable and ultimately possible
to establish the theater. One of
the only theaters built by dancers for dance, The Joyce Theater has provided an
intimate and elegant New York home for more than 290 domestic and international
companies. The Joyce has also
commissioned more than 130 new dances since 1992. In 1996, The Joyce created Joyce SoHo, a dance center
providing highly subsidized rehearsal and performance space to hundreds of
dance artists. New York City
public school students and teachers annually benefit from The Joyce’s Dance
Education Program, and adult audiences get closer to dance through
pre-engagement Dance Talks and post-performance Humanities discussions. The Joyce Theater now features an
annual season of approximately 48 weeks with over 340 performances for
audiences in excess of 135,000.
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The
MetLife Foundation is the Official Tour Sponsor of Pilobolus Dance Theatre.
Leadership
support for The Joyce Theater’s 2008–2009 season has been received from
the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust.
Additional
support for this engagement was provided with public funds from the National
Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state
agency; and with private funds from the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Endowment
Fund to encourage the performances of out-of-town companies at The Joyce
Theater.
Major
support for The Joyce has been provided by Bloomberg LP, The Boeing Company,
Carnegie Corporation of New York, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, First
Republic Bank, The Harkness Foundation for
Dance, JPMorgan Chase Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Peter
Jay Sharp Foundation, The Shubert Foundation and The Starr Foundation.
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