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john saw momix at george mason this weekend. this is what he wrote about the performance:

Momix was AMAZING!!!.  I was thinking — “how I am going to write this up for the blog?” — but realized I had no way to do it.  This one goes unexplained, uncritiqued.  That said, it was genius for its use of illusion and eye-trickery (ok, same thing).  This was as much a function of the lighting and costumes as it was of the dance (which too was amazing).  The lighting was a total mystery to me; I have no idea how they achieved what they achieved.  Bodies were suspended in space, because the lighting exposed the liftee but not the liftor, even while they were perfectly adjacent to one another.  And the costumes turned everyone into biomorphic oddities; half their bodies were missing because only some parts of the clothes were glow-in-the-dark, leaving the rest night-black.  They were like Miro pieces floating around the stage.  The dancers were strong, trained in ballet yet built like gymnasts.