Travel down the rabbit hole MOMIX-style with Moses Pendletonʼs newest creation “Alice,” inspired by “Alice in Wonderland.” As Aliceʼs body grows and shrinks and grows again, the performers extend themselves using props, ropes and even other dancers. Audiences will take a journey that is magical, mysterious, fun, eccentric and more. As Alice falls down the rabbit hole and experiences every kind of transformation, so will you.
CU Boulder Alice
Moses Pendleton’s “Alice,” performed by his famously illusionary, multi-media company, MOMIX, is an homage to three famous works: Lewis Carroll’s classic, psychedelic tales, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass,” and Grace Slick’s trippy 1967 ode to their weirdness, “White Rabbit.”
Like the innocent blond girl who impulsively dives down a rabbit hole into Wonderland after a mere three paragraphs, MOMIX’s 90-minute extravaganza plunges quickly from reality a static portrait of Carroll into pleasant fantasy, a floating Alice reading a book on a summer’s day and soon enough, a mind-bending swirl of phantasmagoria.
As usual for MOMIX, the performers leap and spin and move through an eye-popping, brain-swirling dreamworld of kinetic, colorful props, puppets, towering projections, infinity-reflecting mirrors, and mind-twisting, occasionally eerie, video and animation.
“You can see why I think “Alice” is a natural fit for MOMIX. We want to take this show into places we haven’t been before in terms of the fusion of dance, lighting, music, costumes, and projected imagery,” says Pendleton, who founded the company in 1981.
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