Unlike the mycelial organism, this Pilobolus is a colorful, inventive, highly anticipated and awe inspiring modern dance company from Connecticut, set to perform at UCSB.

 

As the springboard to  UCSB Arts and Lectures’ fall dance season, Pilobolus will be featuring work by famed Israeli choreographer Inbal Pinto, as well as pieces choreographed by Jonathan Wolken, Andrew Herro, Jun Kuribayashi, and Jenny Mendez, just to name a few.

 

Pinto will be introducing “Rushes,” and the show will also include “B’zyrk,” “Persistence of Memory,” “Megawatt,” and “Pseudopodia.”

 

“This company has been around since the ’70s,” said Meghan Henry, spokesperson for Arts and Lectures.

“This will be their sixth or seventh time here,” she said. “If anyone’s heard of a dance company in the U.S., it’s going to be them.

 

I compare them to Cirque du Soleil because they are similarly visually, intellectually and physically challenging.”

 

Pilobolus has been called a “mind-blowing troupe of wildly creative and physically daring dancers who leap, fly, intertwine and break all the rules,” by New York Newsday.

 

It’s mission is “to create and sustain an arts organization dedicated to the choreography and performance of dance-theater works at the highest level of imagination and energy and to use (its) organization and creative methodology to stimulate, educate and expand the audience for dance through innovation, collaboration and public service.”

 

“This is the can’t miss show of the fall,” Henry said.

 

“It’s been the leading selling show so far.

 

What I’m hopping this will do is encourage people to see some other modern dance companies like the Coleman Lemieux and Compagnie, which, like Polobolus, focuses on partnering,” she said.

 

Pilobolus

will be showing at 8 p.m. on

Oct. 30 at Campbell Hall,

574 Mesa Road, Isla Vista.

 

Tickets are priced at

$45 for the general public &

$19 for UCSB students,

though they are nearly sold

 out and are going fast.

 

For more information call

(805) 893-3535 or

 visit www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu.