Pilobolus Isn’t Poor, But That Doesn’t Make It A Sellout

Dance purists love to decry Pilobolus, now 40, “for its commercials (horrors!) for cars and the National Football League,” work that is anathema to “those who feel that existing on the cultural fringes conveys a certain kind of quasi-moral merit, or is, at the very least, chic.” But the troupe’s art is hardly suffering from its financial success.