Splendid dancers and magical moments buoy Alice from MOMIX

MOMIX in Moses Pendleton's ALICE

Seah Hagan in Moses Pendleton's ALICE

MOMIX in Moses Pendleton's ALICE

By Carla Escoda, 21 December 2025

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“It’s an artful, low-tech and uproarious device”

Reviewed at Joyce Theater, New York City on 16 December 2025

Alice (Moses Pendleton)

MOMIX

Phoebe Katzin, Costume Designer

Michael Korsch, Lighting Designer

Seah Hagan, Dancer

Derek Elliott Jr, Dancer

MOMIX is Joyce's holiday program

Ivy Lin, 20th December

If dance is meant to be a mix of art and entertainment, MOMIX occasionally tipped too far into the “pure entertainment” part.

****1

MOMIX Creates Another World With Botanica

Stephanie Sirabian, 14th December

Watching MOMIX’s Botanica is like travelling to another world—one where the lines between reality and illusion are blurred. The dancers and their costumes create a performance that must be recognized as the sum of its parts. In this way, Botanica uses the organic quality of dance for a completely unique representation of nature.

Y tú, ¿eres también Alice?: el ilusionismo de Momix llega a Vigo

Cintia Borges Carreras, 22nd November

Los destellos del alumbrado navideño de Vigo han acogido, con altas dosis de fantasía, la obra Alice de la reputada compañía Momix.

***11

Y tú, ¿eres también Alice?: el ilusionismo de Momix llega a Vigo

Cintia Borges Carreras, 22nd November

Los destellos del alumbrado navideño de Vigo han acogido, con altas dosis de fantasía, la obra Alice de la reputada compañía Momix.

***11

Johnny Loves Johann, unevenly at the Joyce Theater

Carla Escoda, 14th April

Acclaimed violinist and 2024 MacArthur Fellow Johnny Gandelsman invited four choreographers to join him on a marathon through Bach's six cello suites. His musicianship was the highlight of the evening.

***11

Exhibitions of style: Hubbard Street Dance returns to New York

Carla Escoda, 31st March

Aszure Barton, Matthew Rushing, Bob Fosse and James Gregg make for an eclectic and mostly intriguing night with Chicago's Hubbard Street Dance at New York's Joyce Theatre.

****1

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Carla Escoda

Born in the Philippines, Carla trained as a ballet and modern dancer with the Alice Reyes Dance Company in Manila. She has lived and worked in Asia and the U.S. and has written about the arts for Bachtrack, KQED (the northern California public media broadcaster), Dance International, dance journal/hk, the Huffington Post, Dance Europe and ballettothepeople.

Splendid dancers and magical moments buoy Alice from MOMIX at the Joyce