Pilobolus to Perform at Jacksonville's Times-Union Center's Moran Theater, 10/22

The modern performance company Pilobolus brings their show to Jacksonville's Times-Union Center's Moran Theater on Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 7:30PM for one performance only!

Pilobolus's jaw-dropping athleticism and startling mix of humor has dubbed them "the most popular modern Dance Company in the country" (New York Post). Pilobolus makes modern dance accessible and fun for all. Named after an ever-changing organism, and drawing inspiration from biology, Pilobolus has created a dance vocabulary all its own.

Founded in 1971, 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 results of these collaborations has proven amazing feats can be achieved, and Pilobolus has been recognized for its developments in dance and multimedia art.

Based in Washington Depot, Connecticut, in recent years Pilobolus has transformed from avant-garde Dance Company into an international entertainment brand featured on the likes of Oprah, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and the Academy Awards. The company has explored worlds as disparate as advertising, publishing, film, and music videos (Pilobolus was nominated for a 2012 Grammy Award for the video for OK Go's "All Is Not Lost"). Pilobolus achieves all this without ever losing sight of their core mission: to make art that builds community.

Here's a video sneak peek of the show: http://bit.ly/PiloVideo

Tickets for Pilobolus start at $36.00 and are available at the Artist Series Box Office between 10AM-5PM, Monday-Friday, at (904) 442-BWAY (2929) and online 24/7 at www.artistseriesjax.org. Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more at (904) 442-2947or groupsales@fscj.edu.

Pilobolus has been enjoyed by millions of people throughout the US and performed in 64 countries around the world. Their smooth, organic choreography often blurs the lines between individual performers, creating a sense of dance troupe as a singular living being. Their novel approach to the art form translates into a compelling canon that continually draws in dance lovers and newcomers alike.

In keeping with the energy and spirit of its biological namesake - a phototropic fungus that thrives in farmyards - the company has continued to grow toward the light, expanding and refining its unique methods of collective creative production to assemble a repertoire of over 100 choreographic works. While it has become a stable and influential force in the world of dance, Pilobolusremains as protean as ever, looking forward to the next 40 years of collaborating on the future.

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