Pilobolus to Perform at Harris Center, 3/21-22

Pilobolus has built its fervent and expanding international following by showing the human body to be the most expressive, universal, and magical of media. Pilobolus maintains its own singular style, evolving interplay with shapeshifting, shadowplay and other explorations, while actively collaborating with the best and brightest minds from all conceivable professions the world over.

The company is named after a barnyard fungus that propels its spores with extraordinary speed, accuracy and strength. It's how that translates onstage that makes them such a thrilling component of contemporary dance. "It's as if we're being given a fleeting glimpse of the inner workings of the universe." (New York Times)

Pilobolus will perform on Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 7:30 pm, and Sunday, March 22 at 2:00 pm. Tickets are priced at $25-$45; Premium $55; Students with ID $12. Tickets are available online at www.harriscenter.net or from the Harris Center Ticket Office at 916-608-6888 from 10 am to 6 pm Monday through Saturday, and two hours before show time. Parking is included in the price of the ticket. Harris Center is located on the west side of Folsom Lake College campus in Folsom, CA, facing East Bidwell Street.

Pilobolus is a dance company founded by a group of Dartmouth College students in 1971. Pilobolus continually forms diverse collaborations that break down barriers between disciplines and challenge the way we think about dance. Put another way, "Pilobolus embodies a large part of what the best in contemporary dance is all about: discovery. Making something new with the same standard body parts the rest of us have" (Washington Post). While their many accomplishments include setting the 2011 Guinness World Record for fitting the most people into a Mini Cooper (26), it's what they do on stage that has mesmerized audiences for over 40 years.

The company has been featured across the world on television broadcasts like the 79th Annual Academy Awards (2007), Sesame Street, Oprah, 60 Minutes and Late Night with Conan O' Brien. It has been recognized with prestigious honors, such as the Berlin Critic's Prize, the Scotsman Award, the Brandeis Award, a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cultural Programming, the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement in Choreography, and a TED Fellowship for presenting at the TED conference in 2005. In 2012, the company was nominated for a Grammy Award for its collaboration with OK Go and Google Chrome Japan on the interactive music video, "All is Not Lost." Recently, Pilobolus was honored as the first collective to receive the Dance Magazine Award, which recognizes artists who have made lasting contributions to the field. Pilobolus continually forms diverse collaborations that break down barriers between disciplines and challenge the way we think about dance. Physically and intellectually, the company engages and inspires audiences around the world through performance, education and consultation. Pilobolus propels itself in a variety of directions to reach these goals. The original company, Pilobolus Dance Theater, has been touring its 115 pieces of repertory to more than 64 countries over the last 42 years. Pilobolus Shadowland, the company's evening length show currently touring Europe, the Middle East and Asia, has been seen by more than a half million people in the three years since it was created. Pilobolus's collaborative creative and educational work takes place through the Pilobolus Lab, in which the company both convenes diverse artists in the development of new work and teaches its creative method to individuals and institutions. To date, the Pilobolus Lab has produced collaborations with Penn & Teller, the MIT Distributed Robotics Laboratory, Art Spiegelman, Maurice Sendak, OK Go, Radiolab, and many others.

The Lab's educational programming-which applies Pilobolus' unique collaborative process to help all kinds of groups work better and achieve common goals-includes workshops, master classes, residencies and children's programming. Educational partners include Brooklyn Academy of Music, and NYC and CT Public Schools.

For more information please visit www.pilobolus.org.