Pilobolus Dance Theatre

Pilobolus Dance Theatre is the historical and formal name of our 7-person touring company. Based in Washington Depot, Connecticut, a small town in the state's rural northwest, PDT has been choreographing and touring continually since October 1971 and performs for stage and television audiences around the globe. It currently possesses a repertory of over 85 works, a number of which appear in the repertoires of other major dance companies including the Joffrey, Feld, Ohio, Arizona, and Aspen/Santa Fe Ballets in the United States, the Ballet National de Nancy et de Lorraine and the Ballet du Rhin in France, and Italy's Verona Ballet.

Pilobolus has received many awards, among them the Berlin Critic's Prize, the Brandeis Award, the Scotsman Award for performances at the Edinburgh Festival, the New England Theatre Conference Prize, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts Award for Excellence and, in 1997, a Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding achievement in cultural programming. In June 2000 Pilobolus received the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for lifetime achievement in choreography, and in 2004 the company was the subject of a feature profile on CBS 60 Minutes.

Pilobolus Dance Theatre spends roughly half the year on the road, with the remaining time divided between training, rehearsal, and the creation of new works. With an average annual performance season of 100 shows, the 7-person touring company has the broadest audience of the organization's four sectors and remains the flagship of the Pilobolus' artistic endeavors.