MOMIX to Present New York Premiere of Moses Pendleton's ALCHEMIA at The Joyce Theater

In celebration of MOMIX's 35th Anniversary Season, the company returns to The Joyce Theater for four weeks with the New York premiere of Alchemia, the latest full-length creation for MOMIX by founder and Artistic Director Moses Pendleton. MOMIX will be performing Alchemia at The Joyce Theater from July 6 through August 1. Tickets range in price from $10 to $59 and can be purchased through JoyceCharge at www.Joyce.org, or by calling 212-242-0800. Please note: ticket prices are subject to change. The Joyce Theater is located at 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street.

MOMIX is known internationally for presenting work of exceptional inventiveness and physical beauty. In Alchemia, MOMIX explores the four classic elements of earth, air, fire, and water to produce a show full of surprising metamorphoses and visual wonder. Turning the art of alchemy into the alchemy of art, the irrepressible Moses Pendleton unleashes his fertile imagination in a phantasmagorical multimedia spectacle that includes projections of his own photographs. Witness MOMIX's magnetic energy and exquisite use of props, costumes, light, and sound as they showcase the transformation of matter and nature through a process that stretches the mind and rewards the senses.

MOMIX is a company of dancer-illusionists under the direction of Moses Pendleton. In addition to stage performances worldwide, MOMIX has worked in film and television, recently appearing in a national commercial for Hanes underwear and a Target ad that premiered during the airing of the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards. With performances on PBS's "Dance in America" series, France's Antenne II, and Italian RAI television, the company's repertory has been broadcast to 55 countries. Joining with the Montreal Symphony in the Rhombus Media film of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, winner of an International Emmy for Best Performing Arts Special, the company's performance was distributed on laser disc by Decca Records. MOMIX was also featured in IMAGINE, one of the first 3-D IMAX films to be released in IMAX theaters worldwide. MOMIX dancers Cynthia Quinn and Karl Baumann, under Moses Pendleton's direction, played the role of "Bluey" in the feature film FX2; and White Widow, co-choreographed by Moses Pendleton and Cynthia Quinn, was featured in Robert Altman's movie The Company. Commissioned by corporations such as Fiat and Mercedes Benz, MOMIX performed at Fiat's month-long 100th Anniversary Celebration in Torino, Italy, and Mercedes Benz's International Auto Show in Frankfurt, Germany. Participating in the Homage à Picasso in Paris, the company was also selected to represent the US at the European Cultural Center at Delphi. With the support of the Scottsdale Cultural Council and the Scottsdale Center for the Arts in Scottsdale, Arizona, Mr. Pendleton created Bat Habits to celebrate the opening of the San Francisco Giants' new spring training park in Scottsdale, a work that served as the forerunner of Baseball. In acclaimed original productions such as Lunar Sea, Opus Cactus, Orbit, Passion, and Botanica, with nothing more than light and shadow, props, the human body, and an epic imagination, MOMIX has astonished audiences on five continents for more than 35 years.

MOSES PENDLETON (Artistic Director) has been one of America's most innovative and widely performed choreographers and directors for over 40 years. A co-founder of the ground-breaking Pilobolus Dance Theater in 1971, he formed his own company, MOMIX, in 1980. Mr. Pendleton has also worked extensively in film, TV, and opera and as a choreographer for ballet companies and special events. Pilobolus began touring right after its founding, and the group shot to fame in the 1970's, performing on Broadway under the sponsorship of Pierre Cardin, touring internationally, and appearing in PBS's Dance in America and Great Performances series. By the end of the 1970s, Mr. Pendleton had begun to work outside of Pilobolus, performing in and serving as principal choreographer for the Paris Opera's Integrale Erik Satie in 1979 and choreographing the Closing Ceremonies of the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid in 1980. In 1980 he created MOMIX, which rapidly established an international reputation for highly inventive and often illusionistic choreography. The troupe has been touring steadily ever since and is currently performing several programs internationally. The company has made numerous special programs for Italian and French television and received the Gold Medal of the Verona Festival in 1994. In addition to his work with Pilobolus and MOMIX, Mr. Pendleton has also been active as a performer and choreographer for other companies. He staged Picabia's Dadaist ballet Relache for the Joffrey Ballet and Tutuguri, based on the writings of Artaud, for the Deutsch Opera. He created the role of the Fool for Yuri Lyubimov's production of Mussorgsky's Khovanschina at La Scala and choreographed Rameau's Platée for the U.S. Spoleto Festival in 1987. He contributed choreography to Lina Wertmuller's production of Carmen at the Munich State Opera in 1993. He has also choreographed new works for the Arizona Ballet and the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, and teamed up with Danny Ezralow and David Parsons to choreograph AEROS with the Romanian gymnastics team. His film and television work includes the feature film FX2 with Cynthia Quinn; Moses Pendleton Presents Moses Pendleton for ABC ARTS cable (winner of a Ciné Golden Eagle award); and Pictures at an Exhibition with Charles Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony, which received an International Emmy for Best Performing Arts Special in 1991. Mr. Pendleton has also made music videos with Prince, Julian Lennon, and Cathy Dennis, among others. In addition to his work in dance, Mr. Pendleton is an avid photographer, with works presented in Rome, Milan, Florence, and Aspen. Images of his sunflower plantings at his home in northwestern Connecticut have been featured in numerous books and articles on gardening. He is the subject of the book Salto di Gravita by Lisavetta Sgarbi, published in Italy in 1999. Mr. Pendleton was a recipient of the Connecticut Commission on the Arts Governor's Award in 1998. He received the Positano Choreographic Award in 1999 and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1977. 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. Most recently, Mr. Pendleton choreographed the Doves of Peace, featuring Diana Vishneva, for the Opening Ceremony of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. His photographs accompany the sixteen cantos of Phil Holland's The Dance Must Follow (2015), which takes Mr. Pendleton's own creative process as its subject.

MOMIX will be performing Alchemia at The Joyce Theater from July 6 through August 1. The performance schedule is as follows: Monday - Wednesday at 7:30pm; Thursday - Friday at 8pm; and Saturday at 2pm & 8pm. Tickets range in price from $10 to $59 and can be purchased through JoyceCharge at (212) 242-0800 or online at www.joyce.org. Please note: ticket prices are subject to change. The Joyce Theater is located at 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street. For more information, please visit www.mosespendleton.com.