In a way, you could describe “Viva Momix” as virtually a biggest hits assortment.
Soon after all, the multimedia dance working experience – which is established for a performance at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 19 at the Faculty of Saint Benedict’s Escher Auditorium – is a selection of the most iconic items in the Momix repertoire since the enterprise of dancer-illusionists was first fashioned by choreographer and director Moses Pendleton 40 a long time ago.
Considering the fact that that time, Momix has performed are living in around 22 international locations and its repertory has been broadcast to above 55. It has been highlighted in PBS’s “Dance in America” collection, as very well as in commercials for Hanes underwear and Focus on.
It is work was featured in “Imagine,” a person of the initially 3-D IMAC films to be unveiled in IMAX theaters planet-wide, as nicely as in the late director Robert Altman’s 2003 movie “The Company” starring Neve Campbell.
“Viva Momix” is a assortment of the greatest of that memorable do the job.

“It’s definitely a emphasize reel,” claimed Leslie Hanlon, the director of community engagement for Fantastic Arts Programming at CSB/SJU. “It’s a celebration of the factors that really make them stand out. The evening will function 16 sections from some of their most effectively-recognized parts, such as Botanica, Alchemia, Remix, Opus Cactus and Lunar Sea.

“They are really substantial-electricity. The final time I saw them it felt like looking at visible arts occur alive on stage. It is absolutely a dance efficiency, but there is a big visual art component to Momix that is substantial as well. They’re very creative and use the two props and their bodies to make playful and surreal worlds on phase.”
Tickets for the efficiency price tag $30 for the basic community, $27 for seniors, $23 for CSB/SJU school and staff and $15 for youth/university student ID.
They can be ordered in this article. The performance is free for existing CSB/SJU pupils.
Educators, health and fitness treatment employees, veterans or lively obligation army personnel acquire a 50 p.c price reduction on frequent and senior priced tickets working with the code Care in recognition of their initiatives all through the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
On the night ahead of the general performance, Momix firm dancer Anthony Bocconi will present a 90-moment open degree class featuring MOMIX-impressed floorwork, choreography and a small query-and-remedy session.
It is cost-free and open to the community. But registration is expected. Contributors need to offer evidence of a whole COVID-19 vaccination (CSB/SJU students and college can offer their ID) or of a adverse COVID test within just the past 72 several hours.
Masks will have to be worn during the workshop.
“That’s 1 of the fantastic areas of our system below,” Hanlon said. “Artists visiting Saint John’s and Saint Benedict virtually often host workshops off the stage all through their engagement with us. For our community to have accessibility to a workshop with a dance firm like this is an incredible opportunity.”
