Article: Momix. (Joyce Theater, New York, New York)

JOYCE THEATER DECEMBER 17, 1996-JANUARY 5, 1997 REVIEWED BY ROSLYN SULCAS

The poster for Momix's fifteenth anniversary season features a naked woman in profile, head and one leg thrown back, a diaphanous veil not quite masking a bare breast and the curve of a G-string. Momix, the theater-child of Pilobolus co-founder Moses Pendleton, is a little more serious than this image might lead one to believe--but not much. Visual titillation is the keynote of Momix's work. This undermines its real theatrical and dance skills by transforming every idea into a slick effect. The naked women--draping themselves over men's backs with a languorous dexterity worthy of the Moulin ...

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