Robby Barnett

He and other students in a dance class at Dartmouth College (1971) started using a unique weight-sharing approach to partnering, what Robby called four men twisted together like proteins.

[1] This hybrid of dance and gymnastics spurred up many ideas for Robby and the other members of the new company known as Pilobolus.

In an interview with Zachary Whittenburg,[2] Mr. Barnett stated that Pilobolus wants to bring in artists rather than solely sticking to dancers.

Not in the essence where they wanted some visual artist to draw a picture to be used on stage but to implement new ideas.

a few examples of the collaborating parties are graphic novelist Art Spiegelman and puppeteer Basil Twist.