Word: pilobolus
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...incantatory sound and allusive visual imagery. In the 1960s and 1970s, such experiments often evoked the grubby and primal. Lately artists like Robert Wilson have mined the elegant surrealism of dreams--and have willingly induced a drowsy semiconsciousness in audiences. Martha Clarke, a former modern dancer with the Pilobolus troupe, has traversed similar terrain in The Garden of Earthly Delights, echoing the Hieronymus Bosch painting that hangs in Madrid's Prado, and now in Vienna: Lusthaus, a fragment ed evocation of a city in moral decay and concealed emotional turmoil during the years leading up to World...
...admirable for having been entirely conceived from the director’s intuition or her unparalleled, pure connection with the material. Martha Clarke is principally a choreographer, known for her experiments with flying—featured in this show, with pretty results—and her membership in the Pilobolus Dance Theater. She has little experience in directing “straight” plays, has noted repeatedly in interviews that Shakespeare is “my first dead playwright,” and says she has no interest in directing another Shakespeare play any time soon...