A two week joint residency involving UTD and Collin County Community College brings Pilobolus Too, part of Pilobolus' education outreach program, to Dallas. The performances on March 3 and 4 will consist of two Pilobolus Too master teachers, Matt and Emily Kent, and students from both campuses. This creative dance collective has been widely acclaimed for its choreography as well as sense of humor and invention. UTD faculty members Monica Saba and Michele Hanlon will work with CCCC faculty member Tiffanee Arnold and Pilobolus Too throughout the residency and performances.

EMILY MILAM KENT, Dancer/Teacher, born in Cartersville, GA, began her movement training climbing trees, tumbling on her bed, and started her first improv dance company in the garage at age six. Her formal training began with ballet, and she was intiated into modern dance as member of the CORE Concert Dance Company at the University of Georgia while pursuing a degree in Dance Education. She has since performed works of Doris Humprhey with the Silo Chamber Dancers, of Mary Barnett with In Good Company, taught partnering from Atlanta to Seattle, and created works on high school and college students. Emily works with Pilobolus TOO, is also a personal trainer and fitness instructor, teaches aerobics and yoga and sometimes substitute teaches in public schools. Recently, she and her husband, Matt Kent, developed a new “Peter and the Wolf” with the Boston Celebrity Series creative director, composer/educator, Rob Kapilow, which premiered February 28, 2004 in Boston. Emily and Matt live in Norcross, Georgia.

MATT KENT. Dancer, has no formal training in dance but studied rigorously the martial art, ninjutsu, under the tutelage of world renowned master Bud Malmstrom. While pursuing a Bachelor's in Music Therapy at the University of Georgia, Matt began to integrate theatre, music, psychology, and non-tradition movement vocabularies, under the creative mentorship of the Dance Department head, Bala Sarasvati. In 1996, Matt joined Pilobolus where he collaborated in the creation of eighteen „Pil‰ works, served as Dance Captain for three years, and performed and taught around the globe. His performances can be seen on stage, on screen big and small including a full-length documentary film, Live with Regis, pre- and post-Kelly, Good Morning America and Sixty Minutes. He now tours internationally and domestically with Pilobolus Too, teaches master classes and residencies for the Pilobolus Institute, and mounts Pilobolus repertoire on other companies. Matt now incorporates his improvisational and collaborative experience with Pilobolus, music, and martial art into his own choreography and multidiscipline teaching at corporate venues, family programs, public school residencies and for the dance community. Matt has created a family theatre called Pickleshoes, (www.pickleshoes.org) which is now touring two Family Musik programs created with composer/conductor Roba Kapilow: a new "Peter and the Wolf," and "Fairy Tales." Pickleshoes has performed with the Atlanta Symphony, the Boston Celebrity Series and for Lincoln Center Great Performers Series. Matt and his wife live in Norcross, Georgia.