now here is a picture of the theatre group of the same name
and what interests me right now about this group is how they arrived at the name they did and why. When i was back in South africa there were several advertisments who used pilobolus to sell their product or service i have pretty much forgotten the company but i never forgot the shadow making group. as such, a local news group interviewed the team while they were in SA and i remember that they mentioned why they chose to name themselves after a fungus. it seems the dance company named themselves this back in 1971and drew inspiration for their dance from biology and natural movement and that the name pilobolus was a catchy name.but in recent times they are not the only inspired thearical dance troupe. not so long ago, this year in fact another hungarian shadow group called attraction won the britains got talent competition. in the US in the american version of the show there was a group called tell-a-vision who used lcd screens for their preformance but got booted off early for being too artsy.
as ine final thing, back in south africa there was another advertisement for Volkswagen or bmw and featured not a preformance but something more sciency but looks just as amazing, but is more a feat of engineering and art than dance and art
these are considered a type of wind chime as they are kinetic sculptures
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