When Pilobolus last appeared at the Joyce Theater, five years ago, it was business as usual. This popular troupe of mime-acrobats named after a fungus used to sprout in Chelsea every summer with new and recent growths. The earliest work, “Walklyndon,” from 1971 (the year that a group of Dartmouth College students formed Pilobolus), has decayed from deadpan to dead. They are distanced from the Monty Python-era spirit of “Walklyndon,” as if dutifully telling jokes their father heard from his father. What first appears to be a joke about Victorian female attire — two women in big-bustled dresses with too much fabric — soon becomes something stranger, a dream about female power.

Source: New York Times June 14, 2019 18:00 UTC