DANCE THEATRE
PILOBOLUS COMPANY OVERVIEW
PILOBOLUS DANCE THEATRE is a modern
performance company, founded in 1971,
that to this day keeps alive its founding
vision as a dance collective by and for
newcomers to dance. The distinctive
Pilobolus approach focuses on how people,
working together, can create form and
movement to breath-taking effect.
Dedicated to a collective creative process,
Pilobolus launched the International
Collaborators Project in 2007, where it
curates and convenes groups of diverse
artists—including the MIT Distributed
Robotics Laboratory, Art Spiegelman, OK
Go, Penn & Teller, and many others— to
make inventive, athletic, witty performance
works on stage and screen using the human
body as a medium for expression.
Pilobolus makes art to build community.
The Pilobolus Institute teaches the
company’s group-based creative process to
performers and non-dancers alike through
popular, unique educational projects and
programs.
Pilobolus also applies its method of creative
invention to a wide range of movement
services for film, advertising, publishing,
commercial clients, and corporate events.
This division is called Pilobolus Creative
Services.
Recently, Pilobolus created a blockbuster
evening-length movement-theatre piece
called Shadowland touring internationally
that has sold over 450,000 tickets to-date.
ABOUT PILOBOLUS CREATIVE SERVICES
Pilobolus Creative Services (PCS) is a boutique
production company, a unique branch of the
organization designed to use Pilobolus’s creative
methods to help clients in the world of business
and marketing find innovative ways to
communicate their messages and tell their stories.
The work ranges, widely, from directing
commercial circuses and broadways shows, to
breaking world records, broadcast advertising,
book production and digital viral video creation.
Clients include many fortune 500 companies,
including Google, IBM, Avon, Panasonic, Pfizer,
Orange, Heineken, Volkswagen, Ford, Hyundai,
American Express, UBS, Philips, McKinsey and
Boston Consulting Group, as well as conferences
and product launches around the world.
PCS created and presented 6 acclaimed
performances during the 79th Annual
Academy Awards, and produced a series of
original segments for the “Oprah Winfrey
Show” and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”.
One of eight spots PCS created for the NFL
Network was nominated for an Emmy Award
in Sports, and the music video PCS created
with rock bank OK Go was nominated for a
Grammy and garnered multiple Cannes
Lions Awards at the 59th Annual Cannes
Lions International Festival of Creativity.
PILOBOLUS CREATIVE SERVICES OFFERINGS
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Full Service Advertisement Ideation and Creation
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Live Events
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Fully Customized Shadow Performances
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Customized Video
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Customized Campaigns featuring Pilobolus Human
Alphabet
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Tailored Shadow Performance Show Endings
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Interactive Engagement Performances & Workshops
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Non-Customized Dance &/or Shadow Performances
PILOBOLUS CREATIVE SERVICES HIGHLIGHTS
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Ford needed to communicate its forward-thinking
design and manufacturing while also expressing
their belief that without the individual imprint of
each driver, a car is simply a machine. PCS
answered the call through motion, inspiration and
subtle visual transition from body to machine.
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Pilobolus created a series of broadcast
advertisements for multinational Spanish banking
group, BBVA, answering the bank’s need to
communicate its high level of customer service and
flexibility to its market in a unique, engaging way.
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Multicentrum approached Pilobolus to create an ad
campaign that could use the creativity, movement
and strength of the PCS team to speak to the
brand’s target demographic. The advertisement’s
success is evident as it continues to be licensed in
markets the world over.
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America’s National Football League needed a
series of spots to introduce a season of games.
PCS matched the excitement of the games
themselves and kept each teaser relevant as it
customized designs for each game. One of these
NFL spots garnered an EMMY nomination.
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PILOBOLUS CREATIVE SERVICES HIGHLIGHTS
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Breaking world records is not beyond the call for
PCS, as the comapny worked with EMC and Mini
Cooper to create a stunt that resulted in not only a
successful marketing campaign but also a
Guinness World Records mark for most people
crammed in a Mini Cooper.
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Through story and shadow, PCS answered car
company, Hyundai’s call to show that their
Hyundai Santa Fe is more than a machine, it is a
lifestyle choice.
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Magnifico, a circus of a performance created by
PCS with Austrian visionary André Heller, featured
a wide range of Pilobolus movement and dance,
and opened with animation featuring landscapes
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All is Not Lost, the interactive music video
collaboration with OK Go and Trish Sie, won
multiple Cannes Lions Awards at the 59th Annual
Festival of Creativity and was nominated for a
GRAMMY Award.
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PILOBOLUS CREATIVE SERVICES HIGHLIGHTS
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In association with the MIT Distributed Robotics
Lab, Pilobolus created UP: The Umbrella Project, a
large-scale, live performance piece that arms
untrained participants with umbrellas fabricated
with multi-colored LED lights. The project
demonstrates how individual decisions can affect
the result of a larger group, allowing corporations
to communicate a powerful message in a fun,
interactive and memorable experience.
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Pilobolus hit commercial show Shadowland
(created in collaboration with the lead writer of
SpongeBob SquarePants, Steven Banks) is
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international hit, reaching an audience of over
400,000 in just a few years.
Portions of
Shadowland are available for customization.
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P7 is the present-day vehicle for over forty years’
worth of Pilobolus’s most inventive and
groundbreaking
choreographic
work.
The
company of seven tours extensively in the United
States, splitting time between performing and
teaching classes, and creating new works under
the International Collaborators Project.
Works
created by P7 are available for PCS offerings.
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PILOBOLUS CREATIVE SERVICES CLIENT LIST
Advertising
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Live Events (continued)
Live Events
American Express
Beth Israel
Royal Variety
Bidvest
Dow Chemical
TED
BBVA
Dupont
UBS Investment Bank
Ford Motor Company
Flomax
US Olympic Committee
Hilton Hampton Hotels
Genzyme Corporation
United Technologies
Hyundai
Google
Yapi Kredi Bank
Mobil
Griswold Museum
Zayed Awards
Multicentrum
Heinekin
NFL Emmy Nominated spot
IBM
Opel
MAC Cosmetics
79th Annual Academy Awards
Proctor & Gamble
Magnifico
Helene Fischer
Starwood Resorts
McKinsey
Late Night with Conan O’Brien
Toyota
Merck
Oprah Winfrey Show
Mini Cooper
So You Think You Can Dance
Orange
Wetten Dass
Music & Trade Videos
Marilyn Manson: Beautiful People
Live Television
Philips
OK Go: All Is Not Lost
Panasonic
More Pilobolus Creative Services highlights here.
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PEOPLE ARE TALKING
PRESS:
“It’s as if we’re being given a fleeting glimpse of the inner workings of the universe.” — Alistair MacCaulay, The New York Times
“Pilobolus is a mind-blowing troupe of wildly creative and physically daring dancers who leap, fly, intertwine and break all the
rules...Audiences should expect the unexpected with Pilobolus.” — NYC Newsday
“The din at a Pilobolus performance is like that of no other dance crowd.” —The LA Times
TWITTER FANS:
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Saw Pilobolus’s collaboration w/ okgo last night at AmerDanceFest. Struggling for words. All I have so far is “Again! Again! Again!”
No one with any sense of human aesthetic or fellow feeling can fail to be moved by Pilobolus
At a Pilobolus performance. Mind blowingly good.
Pilobolus is like the train that ships all the awesome that a large city consumes in one year.
BOOKING INFORMATION
KAREN FEYS
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