Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Scraps. Categories: Stuff, Dance.
One of the most excellent things Velma has introduced me to is the Pilobolus dance troupe. They perform at the Joyce theatre in New York every summer, and we've gone to see them every summer we've been together except the couple of summers we were dead broke. The last couple of years have seen our finances slowly climbing out of the crisis zone, and we've been able to indulge ourselves a little bit. Last year we went to see all three programs, and this year we're doing that again, and seeing one of them -- the one with the magnificent "Day Two" -- twice. And I was able to get seats in the second row for one of the shows, and fourth row for the other three.
There's a little bit of Pilobolus available on YouTube. This one's got a bunch of short clips, and is pretty representative, but doesn't give you a sense of them at length:
This one has two long pieces, and though (as is so often the case with dance on film or television) the intrusive and too-close direction detracts a little bit, it still gives a good sense of what they're like in a couple of their aspects. Especially the second piece, "Walklyndon", an early very goofy one that's one of my favorites:
This is always one of the highlights of our summer, and this year should be the best yet.