Pilobolus and Joan (1973)

Pilobolus and Joan is a dancenarrative journey of transformation a theatrical search for self and love based on Carol Emshwillers story Metamorphosed In this inversion of Kafkas Metamorphosis a cockroach awakens as a man actually a fourman being as enacted here by members of the Pilobolus Dance Theatre Within this seriocomic narrative format the sculptural configurations of the antic Pilobolus dancers find their video correlative in Emshwillers inventive imaging juxtapositions and surrealistic manipulations of time and scale Emshwiller achieves a video theater of the imagination applying the transformative properties of the electronic medium as a visual counterpoint to the literary text the gymnastic choreography of Pilobolus and the musical performances of Joan McDermott