Dancer-Illusionists of MOMIX Showcase their Greatest Works

(SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.) – Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will present MOMIX on Thursday, Jan. 21, at 7:30 p.m. and on Friday, Jan. 22, at 8 p.m.

Tickets are available for $47 through the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts’ patron services box office at (480) 994-ARTS (2787) or online at www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org.

The uncanny dancer-illusionists of MOMIX are internationally renowned for conjuring a magical fantasy world using props, light, shadow, humor and the human body. Best of MOMIX showcases selections from some of the company’s most dazzling productions, including its latest work Botanica and classics such as Baseball, Lunar Sea, MOMIX in Orbit, Opus Cactus and Passion.

Led by Artistic Director Moses Pendleton, MOMIX has performed throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia. Arizona has provided inspiration for several of the company’s signature works. In 1992, Pendleton created Bat Habits, developed with the support of the Scottsdale Cultural Council/Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts and the University of Washington to celebrate the opening of the San Francisco Giants’ new spring training park in Scottsdale. This work became the forerunner of MOMIX’s Baseball, which Pendleton created in 1994.

Originally a 30-minute piece commissioned for Ballet Arizona, MOMIX’s Opus Cactus is now a two-act suite of dances set to music derived from desert locations around the world. The work draws its inspiration from the landscape of the Southwest and magically interprets the imagery of the desert, from saguaros and tumbleweeds to lizards and rattlesnakes.

Moses Pendleton has been one of America’s most innovative and widely performed choreographers and directors for more than 30 years. One of the founding members of the groundbreaking Pilobolus Dance Theater, Pendleton formed MOMIX in 1981 and has since worked extensively in film, television and opera and as a choreographer for ballet companies and special events. He has received numerous honors, including the Positano Choreographic Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Best of MOMIX is part of the Art in Motion Series sponsored by the Daron and Ron Barness Family Foundation and is presented with support from Karen and John Voris.

LOCATION AND PARKING
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts is located at 7380 E. Second St. in downtown Scottsdale, four blocks south of Indian School Road and three blocks east of Scottsdale Road. Free parking is available in the public parking garage located to the west of Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts and directly behind Los Olivos restaurant on Wells Fargo Avenue. Additional free parking is available at the Old Town Parking Corral at East Second Street and Brown Avenue and at the Civic Center Library parking garage located on Drinkwater Boulevard at East Second Street.

ACCESSIBILITY
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts offers performance accommodations to enhance audience members’ experience, including: American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation or live audio description with two weeks advance notice. Assisted listening devices and wheelchair seating are always available. Visit the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts’ Web site at www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org or contact the patron services box office at (480) 994-ARTS ext. 2 [TDD: (480) 874-4694] for further details. Please inquire about services when ordering tickets.

GROUP AND STUDENT DISCOUNTS
Attend with family and friends, or bring a group from your business, civic or religious organization. Save $3 per ticket and at least $30 in handling fees when purchasing 15 or more tickets to the same event (subject to availability; some restrictions apply). Instead of $2.50 per single ticket, the handling fee is only $7.50 total for group orders. Full-time students may purchase half-price tickets one hour before events/performances (subject to availability; limit one single ticket per full-time student; some restrictions apply). Must present current valid student I.D. in person at the patron services box office. No phone orders.

SCOTTSDALE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
Opened in 1975, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts presents a dynamic, culturally diverse season of dance, jazz, classical and world music, theater and satire. Approximately 2,000 performances, educational programs, festivals and other events are showcased annually serving more than 300,000 people and contributing substantially to Scottsdale’s high quality of life and vibrant arts scene. Performances take place in the Center’s newly renovated 848-seat Virginia G. Piper Theater and 137-seat Stage 2 as well as the 2,000-seat amphitheater on the grounds of the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall. The Center’s youth education and outreach programs reach more than 50,000 school children each year, and its free events are available to the entire public. The Center also produces the award-winning Scottsdale Arts Festival every March; Sunday A’Fair, a series of free outdoor music festivals held on Sunday afternoons from January to April; and Native Trails, a collaboration with the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation and the Scottsdale Convention & Visitors Bureau that features free demonstrations of Native American arts and culture from January to April. Open daily and during performances, The Store @ Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts offers hand-crafted jewelry, accessories for the home, imaginative toys, recordings, books, greeting cards and more.

The Scottsdale Cultural Council, a private nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, is contracted by the City of Scottsdale, Ariz., to administer certain City arts and cultural projects and to manage the City-owned Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and Scottsdale Public Art Program. The programs of the Scottsdale Cultural Council are made possible, in part, by the support of members and donors and grants received from the Arizona Commission on the Arts through appropriations from the Arizona State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Published on behalf of Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
7380 E. Second St.
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
Box Office: (480) 994-ARTS (2787) ext. 2
TDD: (480) 874-4694
Web: www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org
E-mail: info@sccarts.org
Fax: (480) 874-4699

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