Pilobolus Dance Company Launches Virtual Connecting with Balance

Pilobolus, an award-winning, rebellious dance company, will offer its proprietary “Pilobolus Connecting with Balance” program as a video-on-demand service through OurConcerts.live. The classes are available via a subscription for $14.99/month. For more information visit https://ourconcerts.live/pilobolus.

According to the CDC, falls are the leading cause of injury-related deaths in older adults.

“Pilobolus Connecting with Balance” is a progressive exercise program designed to help people, particularly seniors, with their balance as they journey through life. The program was created by Pilobolus Education Director Emily Kent and developed through classes over the last six years; for the last year it has been offered electronically.

“Balance is key to living a healthy life. We created “Pilobolus Connecting with Balance” so that anyone could reconnect with their body and improve their physical balance, stability and mobility,” says Kent. “Balance is behind everything we do and improving balance increases independence and quality of life. It helps us move better in our day-to-day lives, offers a crucial step in recovering from injuries, and reawakens senses dulled from a sedentary lifestyle.”

“Pilobolus Connecting with Balance” offers a series of simple exercises based on a half century of techniques that playfully investigate and increase one’s capacity for mobility, stability and expression. A few simple household items, a chair, a cone, or a ball, are all that are required. The sessions are offered at three levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced, and intensifications and modifications are available for each exercise. Participants track their progress through the assessment video.

Since 1971 Pilobolus has tested the limits of human physicality to explore the beauty and the power of connected bodies. The company was founded by non-dancers who believed that everyone can connect with their bodies and access creativity through movement.

The entire nine-episode sequence of “Connecting with Balance,” and additional pop-up “Connecting with Balance” live events are available through an OCL subscription of $14.99/month. (OCL subscribers are also given access to additional arts events and offerings beyond Pilobolus.)

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