Viva MOMIX

Running Time: 105 minutes (plus intermission) Speaking of Dance Pre-show Talk 7:15pm each night in the Vancouver Playhouse Upper Lobby. Moderators: Jay Nunns (Artistic & Community Development Director, Circus West) and Cameron Fraser (Production Manager, Circus West). Guest: Jason Williams (MOMIX dancer). Post-show Social after the performance on Friday night in the Playhouse Salons. VIEW PROGRAM NOTES. In honour of MOMIX’s celebrated history, Viva MOMIX distills more than three decades of work into a compilation of audience and critical favourites – the result is a confetti-coloured explosion of old and new, a mash-up of illusion, beauty, and near-stratospheric levels of invention and creativity. Choreographer Moses Pendleton’s unique blend of visual theatre combines ballet, acrobatics, and circus technique, with innovative lighting, costume and sound to create a fantastical universe peopled with human flowers, Gila monsters, and ambulatory cacti. Elements of the natural world – animal, plant and mineral – are transmuted through the skill and technical virtuosity of MOMIX dancers, who sculpt their bodies into theatrical creations that suspend the rational mind, and replace it with wonder and a glorious sense of play. Production Sponsor