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  We went to the DPAC in Durham on Friday night, July 1. Our first trip to the DPAC. Pilobolus did not disappoint. They displayed their amazing physicality, sculpted bodies and the new as well as the old. It started with "Untitled" a dance where ladies in long skirts dance on the shoulders of nude men. They waltz, sashay and move around the stage before the nude men pop out. Two other men appear in suits and spar and fight before they joining the nude men under the ladies dresses, forming a trio. The second piece was a delight, "Seraph". A blue "hovercraft" appeared. The dancer danced around the craft. Then a red one appeared and started to chase the dancer. Great dancing with all his movements rolling, tumbling and flying off stage to escape the craft. The third piece was "Korokoro", a Japanese Bhuto inspired piece where the dancers were powdered in white and rolled and tumbled together. They also climbed up out of a standing mass of dancers and slid head first on their backs down the front. Amazing. The next piece was techno wizardry with a camera table and video screen. Dancers in body suits made shapes on a camera table which came out as kaleidoscopic effects on video projected on a screen. It was short and very loud. Amazing but I'm glad it was short. The last number is my all time favorite, "Day Two". It involves the 4 men as neanderthal cave men, then the woman come in topless and form shapes, amoebas and life forms with the men. Libbie's favorite is the dancers popping out of a tarp as plants. The background music included thunder and rain.  The curtain call is the water filled tarp serving as a water slide. The dancers slide across stage on the film of water. Once again, I enjoyed the two topless Pilobolus women, this time standing in full light taking their bow with the company.  We went to the DPAC in Durham on Friday night, July 1. Our first trip to the DPAC. Pilobolus did not disappoint. They displayed their amazing physicality, sculpted bodies and the new as well as the old. It started with "Untitled" a dance where ladies in long skirts dance on the shoulders of nude men. They waltz, sashay and move around the stage before the nude men pop out. Two other men appear in suits and spar and fight before they joining the nude men under the ladies dresses, forming a trio. The second piece was a delight, "Seraph". A blue "hovercraft" appeared. The dancer danced around the craft. Then a red one appeared and started to chase the dancer. Great dancing with all his movements rolling, tumbling and flying off stage to escape the craft. The third piece was "Korokoro", a Japanese Bhuto inspired piece where the dancers were powdered in white and rolled and tumbled together. They also climbed up out of a standing mass of dancers and slid head first on their backs down the front. Amazing. The next piece was techno wizardry with a camera table and video screen. Dancers in body suits made shapes on a camera table which came out as kaleidoscopic effects on video projected on a screen. It was short and very loud. Amazing but I'm glad it was short. The last number is my all time favorite, "Day Two". It involves the 4 men as neanderthal cave men, then the woman come in topless and form shapes, amoebas and life forms with the men. Libbie's favorite is the dancers popping out of a tarp as plants. The background music included thunder and rain.  The curtain call is the water filled tarp serving as a water slide. The dancers slide across stage on the film of water. Once again, I enjoyed the two topless Pilobolus women, this time standing in full light taking their bow with the company.
    
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 That sense of humor cropped up when Tracy explained the title of the new dance. "Korokoro" means "rolling" in Japanese. The dance opens with some rolling. And "it [the word] rolls off the tongue like Pilobolus," Tracy said. That sense of humor cropped up when Tracy explained the title of the new dance. "Korokoro" means "rolling" in Japanese. The dance opens with some rolling. And "it [the word] rolls off the tongue like Pilobolus," Tracy said.
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 "Day Two" is Moses Pendleton's vision of the dawn of creation, where humans enact fierce rituals and primitive creatures skittle about. The dancers' glistening bodies astonish in their athletic sensuality as they form unbelievable structures. The curtain call, in which dancers slide across a water-slicked stage, puts the cap on a must-see event.  "Day Two" is Moses Pendleton's vision of the dawn of creation, where humans enact fierce rituals and primitive creatures skittle about. The dancers' glistening bodies astonish in their athletic sensuality as they form unbelievable structures. The curtain call, in which dancers slide across a water-slicked stage, puts the cap on a must-see event. 
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