MOMIX Returns to the Joyce Theater 5/11-6/6

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 for an extended four-week engagement from May 11 - June 6. Currently celebrating its 30th Anniversary Season, the company will present two weeks of a compilation of audience favorites in MOMIX reMIX (May 11 - May 23), followed by the beautiful earth-friendly-focused BOTANICA (May 25 - June 6), once again seducing audiences and leaving 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.

To kick-off this engagement at The Joyce, the company will present MOMIX reMIX, a collection of its most memorable, magical and moving pieces including selections from their mega-hits: Orbit, Lunar Sea, Opus Cactus and Baseball.

Botanica - a fantasy land of breathtaking beauty - wraps-up the company's season at The Joyce from May 25 - June 6. 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.

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.

ABOUT MOMIX
Based in Washington, CT and founded 30 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 and was most recently seen in a national commercial for Hanes underwear. 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 the Hanes Comfort Soft commercial, 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 reMIX, a compilation of the company's greatest audience favorites, will perform May 11 - May 23. BOTANICA, their latest full evening-length piece, will conclude the engagement, playing from May 25 - June 6. The performance schedule for both programs is as follows: Tuesday - Wednesday at 7:30pm; Thursday - Friday at 8pm; Saturday at 2pm & 8pm; Sunday at 2pm & 7:30pm. 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.

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