Photo: Philobolus

Leaving Tracks: Historicizing Modern Dance

A Symposium
April 3, 2007
Haldeman Center Kreindler Conference Hall (Room 041)
Free and open to the public

As part of the Dartmouth celebration of the transfer of the Pilobolus Dance Company archives to the Rauner Library, this symposium will consider both the place of Pilobolus, founded at Dartmouth in 1971, in the history of modern dance and productive use of dance archives in scholarship and performance-research.

Introduction: 3:00 pm
The Genealogy of Modern Dance
  • Ford Evans, Director of Hopkins Center Dance and the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble.
Panel 1: 3:30 - 4:45pm
Pilobolus: Are they really seeking the light?
Panel 2: 5:00 - 6:15pm
The Nature and Uses of a Dance Archive
  • Jacqueline Z. Davis, Executive Director of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
  • Jay Satterfield, Chief Librarian, Rauner Library, Dartmouth College.
Reception at the Hood Museum of Art: 6:30pm
Pilobolus Comes Home: Three Decades of Dance Photographs. Reception to mark Opening of this at the Hood Museum. All attendees at the symposium are cordially invited to attend.

This exhibition opening celebrates the visual legacy of Pilobolus and the photographers who captured the dance company on film and in digital media over the thirty-five years of its existence. Please join Pilobolus Artistic Directors Robby Barnett '72, Michael Tracy '73, and Jonathan Wolken '71, as well as the photographers at the reception. For more information please visit: hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu

Photo credit: Howard Schatz, Atlas, 03/11/97, Photograph by Howard Schatz (from Passion & Line, GraphisPress) © Schatz Ornstein 1998