Paramount Presents: MOMIX: ALICE

Name: Paramount Presents: MOMIX: ALICE
Start: 2025-04-09T19:30:00-04:00
Location: 215 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Virginia 22902

Schedule

Wed, 09 Apr, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

215 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Virginia 22902 | Charlottesville, VA

Travel down the rabbit hole MOMIX-style with renowned choreographer Moses Pendleton’s newest creation, ALICE, inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Known internationally for presenting works of exceptional inventiveness and physical beauty, MOMIX is a company of dancer-illusionists. Join them on a mind-bending adventure, as Alice encounters time-honored characters including the undulating Caterpillar, a lobster quadrille, frenzied White Rabbits, a mad Queen of Hearts, and a variety of other surprises! Seamlessly blending illusion, acrobatics, magic, and whimsy, ALICE is an invitation to invent, to let imagination run and play outside, revealing that nothing in MOMIX’s world is as it seems!
About MOMIX:
Known internationally for presenting work of exceptional inventiveness and physical beauty, MOMIX is a company of dancer-illusionists under the direction of Moses Pendleton. In addition to stage performances world-wide, MOMIX has worked in film and television, 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 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 world-wide. 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. Participating in the Homage a Picasso in Paris, MOMIX was also selected to represent the US at the European Cultural Center at Delphi.