Moses Pendleto (founder and current artistic director of momix) was born and raised on a dairy farm in Northern Vermont. His first shot at showmanship was showing his family's dairy cows at the local fair. Moses's father past away when he was in high school, therefore his mother shut the farm down and pushed Moses to becomea cross country skier. Moses attened Dartmouth University and recieved a BA in English Literature in 1971. Moses began danceing as a form of therapy to rejuvinate a muscle from a skiing accident.
MOMIX
MOvement Mix of Ballet, Acro, and Nature
Before MOMIX:
Moses Pendleto (born on March 28th 1949) was a co-founder of Pilobolus Dance Theater in 1971. Began at Dartmouth University in New Hampshire. This company was founded by Robb (Moses) Pendleto, Jonathan Wolken (a philosophy major and fencer), and Steve Johnson (pre-med student and pole vaulter). These three men presented a 11 minute piece titled Pilobolus full of humors and compical movements. Murray Louis invited the boys to perform in New York, and from there they captured the heart of America.
"Pilobolus crystallinus is a phototropic (light loving) fungus. Commonly known as “Hat Thrower,” its spores accelerate 0–45 mph in the first millimeter of their flight and adhere to wherever they land. The father of Jonathan Wolken was studying pilobolus in his biology lab when the group first formed. The name was apt, and stuck."
https://pilobolus.org/about/
Moses Pendleton, being the first to venture off from Pilobolus choreographed and restaged Picabia-Satie's Relâche for the Paris Opera Ballet in 1979, then performed at Joffery the next year.
Cynthia Quinn (the current associate director) began performing with Pendleto as a company member on Broadway and the international tours. It wasn't long until Ms. Quinn began to collaborate with the artistic team of Pendleto to create Day Two, Elegy for the Moment, Mirage, What Grows in Huygens Window and Stabat Mater. She then later in 1980, transfered with Moses in the creation of MOMIX.
"I continue to be interested in using the human body to investigate non-human worlds..." - Moses Pendleto
Start of MOMIX
MOMIX is a company directed and founded by Moses Pendleton in 1980. This company was created with only 7 dancers and they portrayed a various of daily occurences or events in wimsicle and humorus ways. "Each production focuses not only on the beauty of the human form, but also the beauty of nature, music, scenography, and life itself."
https://www.momix.com
- Connecticut Commission on the Arts Governor’s Award in 1998.
- Positano Choreographic Award in 1999
- Became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1977.
- 2002 American Choreography Award for his contributions to choreography for film and television.
- May 2010, Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts (HDFA)
- Delivered the keynote address to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
- Mercedes Auto Show in Frankfurt, Germany
- Kohler Corporate Event
- Jakarta, Indonesia Corporate Event
- Target TV Commercial
- Hanes TV Commercial
- Helene Fischer Show in Berlin, Germany
- Fiorello in Rome, Italy
"In Marigolds, Phoebe Katzin’s fabulous orange frills enfolded the women and allowed them to shimmy the dresses down their bodies till they were rumba-like sheaths. Baths of Caracalla, by the same five women, now in white by Katzin, harked all the way back to Loie Fuller, with the women rippling their white skirts like bath towels, flags, or clouds."
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/phillystage/Dance-Review-MOMIX.html?arc404=true
Opus Cactus
“ Few theater artists today can achieve the level of visual splendor and theatrical magic that Mr. Pendleton can conjure from essentially the sparest of means.”
- Robert Greskovic The Wall Street Journal
https://www.momix.com/portfolio-view/opus-cactus/