Pilobolus

One of modern dance’s most popular, playful, and marketing-savvy companies returns to the American Dance Festival for a greatest-hits retrospective spanning thirty-two years of the company’s almost half-century run. The evening begins with the 1975 classic, Untitled, in which two tall Victorian women make their delicate way through a Jungian psychosexual garden. Gnomen, created in 1997 as a memorial to dancer Jim Blanc, who died of AIDS, discloses the contents of a Pilobolus-style book of the dead. In Rushes, the memorable 2007 multimedia collaboration with Israeli choreographers Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak, a strange man with an even stranger suitcase interrupts five monotonous rural lives one night, animating their dreams and offering one the golden possibility of escape. And Moses Pendleton’s Day Two pairs myths about the second day of creation with music from David Byrne and Brian Eno. Its nudity will be toned down Friday night, between commando runs Thursday and Saturday nights.