DARKNESS & LIGHT

"Mr. Twist has given the company "Darkness and Light," an engrossing work that seems at once a return to pure Pilobolus essence and a complete departure from basic Pilobolism. " - New York Times

Basil Twist joined Pilobolus for their second annual International Collaborators Project. This new commission created by the company was a unique opportunity to explore the unencumbered imagination of a puppeteer with the magical imagery of shadows. Darkness and Light premiered at The American Dance Festival 2008

Darkness and Light, Pilobolus’s brings shadow play to the stage. Pilobolus co-Artistic Directors Robby Barnett and Jonathan Wolken worked with acclaimed puppeteer Basil Twist. Using hand-held bulbs and image-manipulating materials based in shadow puppetry techniques, Twist taught Pilobolus dancers the art of light and dark illusion. The result of this collaboration, a journey between the micro and macroscopic worlds in which we live, reaches a new frontier of corporeal imagination.

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