{"id":709,"date":"2008-07-10T09:19:56","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T16:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/07\/dancing-with-the-puppets\/"},"modified":"2008-07-10T09:24:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T16:24:01","slug":"dancing-with-the-puppets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/10\/dancing-with-the-puppets\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing With The Puppets"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the New York Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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DANCE REVIEW | PILOBOLUS<\/nyt_kicker><\/p>\n

Veering From the Standard, Returning to the Spirit<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n

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Ruby Washington\/The New York Times<\/p>\n

\u201cDarkness and Light\u201d is having its New York premiere as part of the troupe\u2019s current season.\u00a0More Photos><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

By\u00a0ALASTAIR MACAULAY<\/a><\/p>\n

Published: July 10, 2008<\/p>\n

Pilobolus<\/a>, like any dance company, has several styles. Some of its works are visions of imaginary biology, some are human dramas, some are about clowning. But since its early years the purest Pilobolus experiences have involved metamorphosis. We see both physicality and illusion. Bodies become imagery, and one image merges into another, organically, poetically, inexplicably.<\/p>\n

This year Pilobolus has collaborated with someone outside its family: the puppeteer Basil Twist. Working with Robby Barnett and Jonathan Wolken, Mr. Twist has given the company \u201cDarkness and Light,\u201d an engrossing work that seems at once a return to pure Pilobolus essence and a complete departure from basic Pilobolism.<\/p>\n

The New York premiere performances of \u201cDarkness and Light\u201d occur as part of Program 3 of the troupe\u2019s current season at the Joyce Theater. At first you see its seven performers, largely naked, and bright lights shining out from the stage. But this is a mere prelude: the dancers and their props are just the raw material. A white curtain descends, whereupon the real stuff of \u201cDarkness and Light\u201d commences.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a shadow play, a drama of silhouettes on the screen, and in part it\u2019s as innocent as the games in which you hold up two hands so configured that they become a rabbit and next a church and steeple. What\u2019s this dark shape? A vase? A funnel? No, it\u2019s a torso. Now it acquires arms and, next, a head. When that head turns in profile, it has a haircut and bristling eyebrows \u2014 prosthetic? \u2014 unlike those of any Pilobolus performer. Soon this face is distorted into something else.<\/p>\n

[ click to read full review at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from the New York Times DANCE REVIEW | PILOBOLUS Veering From the Standard, Returning to the Spirit Ruby Washington\/The New York Times \u201cDarkness and Light\u201d is having its New York premiere as part of the troupe\u2019s current season.\u00a0More Photos> By\u00a0ALASTAIR MACAULAY Published: July 10, 2008 Pilobolus, like any dance company, has several styles. Some of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}