Pihos a moving biography of martin
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She currently dances for The Jan Van Dyke Dance Group and for Sidelong Dance Company. She has danced for Flatlands Dance Theatre, Van Dyke Dance Group, John Gamble Dance Theatre and Sidelong Dance Company. Along with being a choreographer and dancer, she is an award-winning filmmaker. Donations can be made online at http://artspire.org/DirectoryDetail/tabid/95/id/1183/Default.aspx or sent to
Melissa Pihos
2755 Winslow Lane
Winston-Salem, NC 27103
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petepihos35il.com
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The Alzheimer’s Association is extremely helpful for people with Alzheimer’s disease,their families and caregivers.
She has performed all over the United States and her film work has screened in several film festivals across the country. Including audio from interviews with family members landscaped by Adam Donohue, the piece shows a sensitive side of the story, including the support from his family and his ex-wife Donna Pihos throughout his descent into Alzheimer’s disease.
Pihos also takes an abstract look at Alzheimer’s disease.
She created “Dear Dad,” in a documentary film production class in spring, 2009, which has since been screened all over the United States. In spring 2010, she created a dance documentary called Accessing the Legacy of Martha Graham: Steps in the Street. PIHOS A Moving Biography is a documentary dance/film performance that explores the life of her father, NFL Pro Football Hall of Fame receiver Pete Pihos and his battle with Alzheimer's disease.
The show explores various aspects of my Dad’s life and his struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. PIHOS A Moving Biography is a documentary dance/film performance that focuses on the life of Melissa Pihos’ father, Former All –Pro Philadelphia Eagles receiver and Pro Football Hall of Famer, Pete Pihos and his fight with Alzheimer’s disease. These intense scenes show off the physicality and masculinity of both war and sport and the grueling training involved for each.
The performance also includes a visualization of Pihos’ private life, in which he was married four times.
The film projection that accompanies the Alzheimer’s explores the blurring line between clinical explanations of Alzheimer’s disease and the more visceral, abstracted visualization of memory loss. It explores the life of her father, Pete Pihos, who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1970 after his nine-year career playing with the Philadelphia Eagles.
She often uses multimedia technology in her work which adds a layer to the viewer’s visual experience. S. Cagney Gentry, filmmaker and the president of Red Balloon Films, Inc, has also created short films to enhance the visual experience.
Pihos moves through the life of her father, beginning with the murder of his father, Louis Pihos, when Pete was only 14-years-old, and the effects it had on his life and community.
She is also teaching at The Academy of Dance Arts in Winston-Salem this year.
I am also working to create Alzheimer’s Association fundraisers by touring my production PIHOS: Moving Biography to various cities. These events are a way to raise financial support for the Alzheimer’s Association as well as create awareness of Alzheimer’s disease, the devastating disease that took the life of her father in August 2011.
Pihos’ multimedia production was created in March 2011.
The work has toured to Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Lubbock, TX, Philadelphia, New York City and Santa Fe.
Holding an MFA in Choreography/Dance from UNC-Greensboro, her previous dance faculty appointments include UNC-Greensboro, UNC-Charlotte, High Point University and Salem College. In 2011 she created Her Wrath, a dance for camera.
She is teaching at Salem College and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro this semester.