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Pilobolus and the middle school: Utopianism meets reality.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Pilobolus and the middle school: Utopianism meets reality.(Teach-Learn Connection)(dance theater)

Article Excerpt
In the same jeans and sneakers they've been wearing all day, a group of four middle school girls in their school gym in the Bronx are choreographing a short piece that alternates between krumping, twerking, and off-balance weight distribution. They've got no music other than the sounds of band class coming through from next door. Their teacher, Karen Fuhrman from the Pilobolus Institute, walks over and watches their routine. "Great transitions and level changes," she says. "Now try making the rhythm as random as a bag of popcorn popping."

In 1991 Pilobolus Dance Theatre, the innovative dance company known for its collaborative process and its weight-bearing and sharing technique, established the Pilobolus Institute to explore the ways non-dancers express themselves through movement. They've done educational stints at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School for business students and at an after-school...

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