Pilobolus Dance Company

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Press Quotes

“The company provides a much-needed breath of fresh air in the somewhat solemn climate of modern dance in New York.”

~ The New York Times

“Sliding, intertwining and climbing all over each other into moving shapes, their virtually indescribable sculptural tableaux forged a new dance genre.”

~ Philadelphia Daily News

“Part of the fun of performances by the Pilobolus Dance Theater is the vociferous enthusiasm the company typically draws from its audiences.”

~ The New York Times

“An endless series of unfolding surprises, as one dancer folds into another, as one lifts and embraces another, as arms and legs merge to the point where the mind accepts that a dance can, in fact, have four or six of each limb.”

~ Rocky Mountain News

“Grace meets physical agility to create movement that is as lyrical as it is astonishing.”

~ The Sunday Oregonian

“Pilobolus Dance Theatre is a new form of pop dance. A form for which, so far as popularity goes, the sky could be the limit.”

~ The New York Times

“Dancing is but one part of their multi-faceted talent. They are also acrobats, capable of elevating their physical prowess to a breathtaking art, as well as theatre and mime artists. These abilities they combine in an evening’s entertainment, flecked with wit, which literally explodes with imagination and originality, presented with a stunning sense of visual esthetics.”

~ The Montreal Star

“As zany as the Marx Brothers, as clever as Houdini, this sextet of adept acrobats converts bodies into interlocking and interchangeable parts, erecting structures on stage that are closer to sculpture than dance.”

~ Newsweek

"The best Pilobolus works, with no loss of acrobatic wonder or pleasure as popular entertainment, are sustained flights of poetry and drama."

~ The New York Times

“Strange things happen when an offbeat artistic idea is allowed to mature. In the case of Pilobolus Dance Theatre the notion of dance as a pure aesthetic has evolved into an art form of rare vision.”

~ Chicago Sun-Times

“ Pilobolus Dance Theatre is that rarity of rarities: a profoundly serious artistic enterprise that has successfully reached out to a popular audience. If you’ve never seen Pilobolus at work, now’s the time.”

~ Daily News