Monaco Dance Forum

It’s no consternation this rarely successful association keeps attracting audiences around a world. Audiences – quite first-timers of all ages – are good entertained by a alluring surprises of visible illusions and small tricks that offer an innocent, childlike proceed with clever, infrequently worldly execution. Whether it’s a group of blue birds drifting in a dark, an aged cliché of a “black theater” or a extraordinary outcome of a dancer and their mirrored reflection, they win we over with their simple, perfect aesthetics.

Moses Pendleton, owner and artistic executive of Momix (1980), adopted many of his opening concepts progressing on, as a co-founder of Pilobolus (1971). It was afterwards that he helped to emanate a singular hybrid opening genre, formed on gymnastics, furious imagination and humor, spiced with fantastic effects. Since then, both companies contest on identical turf, and share audiences intrigued by this form of entertaining, easy to follow show.

This program, Viva Momix Forever, is an dusk gathered of pieces and pieces of past successful works by Pendleton for Momix by a years, that is an event to follow some of a many ways he found to use props. Often it’s finished to grasp visible effects; like a outrageous frilled flowers morphing into dancers, soothing poles into propellers, and prolonged sticks that are used as springboards for considerable jumps.

In an aged talk Pendleton pronounced that distinct his rivals, who use bodies as props, Momix use props as bodies. we wonder. In one of a pieces a participants danced with life-size soothing dolls that were manhandled for fun. The assembly desired it.

Reminiscing about one of his progressing opening in Israel he mentioned a dire one. He was behaving on a Golan Heights in front of soldiers, a day before a Yom Kippur fight pennyless out. That altered his differently hyper-energetic mood. Consequently he told The Jerusalem Post that he will move Momix behind here as shortly as possible.