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By MARTY CLEAR AND JOHN FLEMING
© St. Petersburg Times
published February 27, 2003
'Momix in Orbit'
Moses Pendleton's first performance piece, in the late 1960s, took the audience on a six-mile trip around his family's Vermont dairy farm. At one point, audience members stood in the path of 50 charging Holsteins.
In 1971, he co-founded Pilobolus, the legendarily iconoclastic dance troupe. The company was named for a fungus that grows in cow manure.
And in 1980, he founded Momix, whose stunningly original blend of movement, humor and illusion, together with ingenious use of props and costumes, makes it one of world's most innovative dance companies. The name comes from a brand of nutritional supplements for calves.
"There's definitely an agribase to the whole thing," Pendleton said.
Momix will be at the Mahaffey Theatre in St. Petersburg at 7 p.m. Sunday with "Momix in Orbit," a sort of greatest hits program. Expect to see "Jonas et Latude," a slapstick comedy about two prisoners, and the company's signature piece, a Balinese shadow play titled "E.C."
Tickets are $29 and $33, plus service charge. Call (727) 892-5767.
-- MARTY CLEAR, Times correspondent
Hungarian orchestra visits
The Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra is in Clearwater tonight. In some of its concerts on a long American tour, the orchestra is playing music of its homeland, with works by Bartok, Kodaly and Liszt. At Ruth Eckerd Hall, the program includes one Hungarian work -- Liszt's Piano Concerto, with soloist Karoly Mocsari -- along with Beethoven's King Stephen Overture and Eroica Symphony. Zsolt Hamar, above, conducts. The concert is at 8 p.m. Tickets: $35, $45. (727) 791-7400.
-- JOHN FLEMING, Times performing arts critic
Opera has revival in Sarasota
Kevin Short (Archibaldo) and Carol Ann Manzi (Fiora) star in the Sarasota Opera production of Italo Montemezzi's L'amore dei tre re (The Love of Three Kings), which is this season's entry from the field of neglected repertory that the company likes to plumb for revivals. Premiered in 1913, the opera was widely performed until it went out of vogue in the 1950s. L'amore still has fans, though, including Donald Grout, author of A Short History of Opera, who described it as "without doubt the greatest Italian tragic opera since Verdi's Otello." Artistic director Victor DeRenzi conducts.
Montemezzi's opera opens at 8 p.m. Saturday and has eight performances through March 29 at the Sarasota Opera House, 61 N Pineapple Ave. Tickets: $17-$79.50. Call (941) 366-8450 or toll-free 1-888-673-7212 or see www.sarasotaopera.org.
-- JOHN FLEMING, Times performing arts critic
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