{"id":2653,"date":"2008-01-22T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/22\/pilobolus-a-performance-mergin\/"},"modified":"2008-01-22T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T18:00:00","slug":"pilobolus-a-performance-mergin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/22\/pilobolus-a-performance-mergin\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilobolus: A performance merging dance and biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Pilobolus dance company members Otis Cook and Jennifer Macavinta perform the sensuous duet &#8220;Symbiosis.&#8221; Does it trace the birth of a human relationship, or the co-evolution of a pair of symbiotic species? That&#8217;s left for you to decide. Gorgeous, organic choreography blurs the boundaries between the two performers, who use the body&#8217;s own geometry to lift, move and combine. The music, recorded by the Kronos Quartet on Nonesuch Records, is a compilation of works: &#8220;God Music&#8221; from Black Angels by George Crumb, &#8220;Fratres&#8221; by Arvo P\u00c3\u00a4rt, and &#8220;Morango &#8230; Almost a Tango&#8221; by Thomas Oboe Lee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><!--cut and paste--><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0\" width=\"320\" height=\"285\" id=\"VE_Player\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/loader.swf\"><PARAM NAME=\"FlashVars\" VALUE=\"bgColor=FFFFFF&#038;file=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/movies\/PILOBOLUS_high.flv&#038;autoPlay=false&#038;fullscreenURL=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/fullscreen.html&#038;forcePlay=false&#038;logo=&#038;allowFullscreen=true\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\"><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilobolus dance company members Otis Cook and Jennifer Macavinta perform the sensuous duet &#8220;Symbiosis.&#8221; Does it trace the birth of a human relationship, or the co-evolution of a pair of symbiotic species? That&#8217;s left for you to decide. Gorgeous, organic choreography blurs the boundaries between the two performers, who use the body&#8217;s own geometry to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/22\/pilobolus-a-performance-mergin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pilobolus: A performance merging dance and biology<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[188],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-GN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}