MOMIX
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THIS YEAR, RING IN THE HOLIDAYS WITH
MOMIX
CELEBRATING
OVER 30 YEARS OF INTERNATIONAL,
AWE-INSPIRING
ENTERTAINMENT
AT
THE JOYCE THEATER WITH
UPDATED
VERSION OF AUDIENCE FAVORITE
BOTANICA
FOR
THREE WEEKS THIS HOLIDAY SEASON WITH
DECEMBER 13-31
THE JOYCE THEATER
(175 EIGHTH AVENUE @
19TH STREET)
Moses Pendleton’s wildly popular, internationally
acclaimed MOMIX, a company that defies categorization as easily as its dancers defy
gravity, will burst onto the stage of The
Joyce Theater just in time for the holidays from December 13 – 31 with a trimmed-down version of the beautiful
earth-friendly-focused Botanica, sure to seduce
audiences and leave them enlightened and electrified. Tickets can be purchased online at www.Joyce.org or by calling JoyceCharge at 212-242-0800. The Joyce Theater is located at 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street.
This updated version*
of the acclaimed Botanica – a fantasyland of breathtaking beauty one season at a time – will
be the treat audiences have been waiting for this holiday season, when it plays
three winter-white weeks at The Joyce Theater this holiday season. In it, MOMIX transforms the theatre into other worldly beauty, transfixing
the audience with their special brand of stage magic, combining imaginative
athletic dance, riveting music, inventive costumes and spellbinding
choreography to create a world of surrealistic images and childlike wonder
brought to life by a cast of dancer-illusionists. It’s a brilliant exploration of nature as large scale
puppets, projected imagery and larger-than-life props (designed by Michael
Curry whose work is featured in The Lion King) evoke a vivid landscape
populated by Artistic Director Moses Pendleton’s whimsical, fertile and
mythical imagination.
*Artistic Director Moses Pendleton has edited the piece down to 90 intermission-less minutes,
keeping the best of the best from the original. Please note: all matinees during this engagement will be “family-friendly”
performances (without nudity), making this the perfect holiday treat for audiences
of all ages!
With multiple companies performing seven
full-length works by Pendleton, MOMIX is the most toured American dance theater in the world. It has maintained
an environmentally conscious profile at its headquarters in rural northwest
Connecticut since long before the current fashion for all things green.
Moses Pendleton was born and raised
on a dairy farm in northern Vermont. He co-founded the famed Pilobolus
Dance Theatre, and his choreography for the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid
led to his founding of MOMIX. He has choreographed for the Paris Opera
Ballet and the Joffrey Ballet, played the fool in Lyubimov’s production of
Mussorgsky’s Kovanshina at La Scala, staged Artaud's
"Tutuguri" at the Deutsche Opera in Berlin, and choreographed
Stravinsky’s Pulcinella for the Ballet de Nancy, as well as Lina
Wertmuller’s Carmen at the Munich State Opera and Rameau’s Platee for the US Spoleto Festival. Among his film collaborators have been Sam
Peckinpah and Julian Lennon for F/X II, Prince for Batman's “Batdance",
and MOMIX Associate Director Cynthia Quinn, with whom he choreographed “White
Widow” for Robert Altman’s The Company. His 1982 autobiographical
film for ABC Arts won the Cine Eagle Award. Mr. Pendleton was a 1998 recipient
of the Connecticut Commission on the Arts Governor’s Award. In 1999, he
was awarded the Positano Choreographic Award by the Italian Government.
Recipient of an American Choreography Award for his work on AEROS-The
Illusion of Flight for the Bravo Television Network, Mr. Pendleton recently
choreographed F.L.O.W. (For Love of Women) for ballet superstar
Diana Vishneva on her groundbreaking triple bill of ballets which received The
Golden Mask Award from the Russian National Theatre. He is a recipient of a 2002 American Choreography Award for his
contributions to choreography for film and television. In May 2010, Mr.
Pendleton received an honorary doctorate of fine arts (HDFA) and delivered the
keynote address to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
ABOUT MOMIX
Based
in Washington, CT and founded 31 years ago, MOMIX has been celebrated worldwide for its ability to conjure up a
universe of surrealistic images using props, light, shadow, humor and the human
body. They have astonished
audiences on five continents. In
addition to stage performances, the company has worked on numerous special
projects in film and television. MOMIX has made five Italian RAI television features, which have been
broadcast to 55 countries (including the USSR and China) and has performed on
Antenne II in France. MOMIX has
also been featured on PBS’s “Dance in America” series. The company participated in the “Homage
a Picasso” in Paris and was selected to represent the U.S. at the European
Cultural Center at Delphi. MOMIX
is featured in the air and under the water in one of the first IMAX films in
3-D, “IMAGINE,” which was released at IMAX theatres worldwide. MOMIX also appeared with the Montreal
Symphony in the Rhombus Media film of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition
for a Decca Records’ laser disc, which received an International Emmy for Best
Performing Arts Special. In 1999,
the company was commissioned to create gala performances for the Fiat
Corporation’s month long 100th Anniversary Celebration in Torino,
Italy. Moses’ inventive
choreography can be seen in commercials for Hanes Comfort Soft and Target, both
of which aired all over the United States. Mercedes Benz commissioned 30 MOMIX performers to perform in
the 2007 International Auto Show in Frankfurt, Germany.
MOMIX will present an all-new version of internationally lauded BOTANICA, a full
evening-length piece, at The Joyce
Theater from December 13 – 31. The performance schedule is as follows:
December 13-18
Tue-Wed 7:30pm; Thu-Fri 8pm;
Sat 2pm & 8pm; Sun 2pm & 7:30pm
December 20-24
Tue 7:30pm; Wed 2pm &
7:30pm; Thu-Fri 8pm; Sat 2pm & 7pm
December 27-31
Tue 7:30pm; Wed 2pm &
7:30pm; Thu-Fri 8pm; Sat 2pm & 7pm
Tickets
are $10 – $59 (Joyce members: $44) and are available by calling JoyceCharge
at 212-242-0800 or online at www.Joyce.org. Note: Ticket prices subject to change. For more info, visit www.momix.com. The Joyce Theater is located at 175 Eighth Ave at 19th Street.
For booking and tour
information, please contact:
Margaret
Selby / Columbia Artists Management Inc.
1790 Broadway, 16th floor
New York, NY 10019
tel:
212/841-9554; fax: 212/841-9770; email: MSelby@cami.com
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