What is it about the work of Art Spiegelman that made you want to collaborate with him?
“Art Spiegelman is one of the great graphic novelists of the century; his work is unparalleled. Last year we started talking to Art about whether he might be interested in collaborating on an original story and translating it—not like translating it on to the page, as he’s used to, with still, immobile objects that obey his every command—but with dancers. We invented this crazy, surreal story of a man and a woman who meet in this life, then pass away and get together in the next life. It’s sort of a very funny, odd story that suits both Art’s sensibility and ours.” You talked to the Boston Globe recently about “trying to find a cartoon language for the dancing that matches the graphic language.” How did the collaboration and the process of discovery work? “Like most Pilobolus pieces, we started with improvisation. We set up a huge screen and projected shadows onto it of the dancers, which created three layers of meaning: live, three-dimensional dancers that you can see as you would in
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