MOMIX at Lehman Center

Lehman Center for the Performing Arts presents MOMIX, a company of dancer-illusionists known internationally for presenting work of exceptional inventiveness and physical beauty, to perform the “Best of MOMIX,” a compilation of the company’s most famous and recognizable vignettes spanning 25 years of work. The company performs on Sun., Nov. 1, at 6 pm at the Concert Hall at Lehman Center, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West on the campus of Lehman College. Tickets cost $35, $30 & $25 (tickets for children 12 and under cost only $10, any seat) and can be purchased by calling (718) 960-8833.

For 25 years, under the direction of founder Moses Pendleton, MOMIX has been celebrated for its ability to conjure up a world of surrealistic images using props, inventive costumes, light, shadow, humor and the human body. Pendleton has transformed dancers into figments of his imagination that are unpredictable, sometimes bizarre and notoriously out of this world. For BEST OF MOMIX, audiences will be treated to over a dozen dance work excerpts from the company’s repertory including crowd-pleasing favorites Lunar Sea, Opus Cactus and Orbit. (Full program attached.)

MOMIX has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Italy, France, Germany, Russia, Denmark, England, Austria, Ireland, Holland, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. The company is based in Washington, Connecticut.

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The Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture will show A Clockwork Orange on Sat., Oct. 24, 7 pm at the Society Meeting House, 4450 Fieldston Road, corner of Manhattan College Parkway.

Malcolm McDonald stars as Alex, leader of a gang of young droogs who wreak havoc and perpetrate ultra-violence wherever they go. Rape, mugging, fighting and murder are everyday activities for them. But there’s more to Alex than violence – he’s a boy with family problems, who likes Beethoven’s Ninth, and is trying to deal with his world as best he can. The running time is 137 minutes. Movies begin with an introduction and are followed by discussion. A donation towards the Film Club of $3 to $5 per person will be accepted at the door.

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The City Island Theater Group will present the always popular Festival of One Act Plays. This enormous undertaking features 15 plays, 11 directors and 26 actors over the course of two weekends! CITG’S latest endeavor is allowing them to produce a different set of one act plays each weekend, thus enabling CITG to present more great theatre and talent! Each weekend will be comprised of both original and published comedies and dramas! This festival will truly have something for everyone! We are pleased to also announce that in order for you to take advantage of both fantastic weekends we have created a special discount ticket offer. If you bring your ticket from the first weekend with you when you come to the second weekend you will get $2 of your ticket price for the second weekend.

Weekend two, which will be on Fri., Oct. 23 an Sat., Oct. 24 at 8 pm and Sun., Oct. 25 at 3 pm, will feature the plays: DMV Tyrant by Christopher Durang, Post-Its (Notes on a Marriage) by Paul Dooley & Winnie Holzman, Rosa’s Eulogy by Richard Strand, Set for Life by Islander Bob Mulroy, The Chocolate Affair by Stephanie Alison Walker, The M Word by Alan Ball, The Man Who Couldn’t Dance by Jason Katims and The Woman Who Wanted Her Husband by Rich Orloff adapted from the short play “A Matter of Husbands” by Ferenc Molnar.

Appearing in the plays are CITG favorites and some new faces! The Festival of One Act Plays feature: Bernadette Barnes, Steven Bendler, Joe Tom Collins, Angela, Theresa Collins, Tee Cotter, Dennis DeLeo, Connieann DelVecchio, Carol Dooner, Daniel Figueroa, Eileen Fox, John Geil, Camille Kaiser, Bill Kozy, Chris Manetakis, Eileen, Marcus, Kate McShane, Christopher Meindl, Bob Mulroy, Mary Mulroy, Liz Paldino, Sandy Prosnitz, Maria Provenzano, Susan Rauh, Matt Regney, Torrey, Rodriguez, Katrina Snyder, Lindy Tabano, Dale Walkonen, Wendy Wyckoff and Denis Zepeda.

The City Island Theater Group is located at 116 City Island Avenue. To reserve tickets call (718) 885-3066.

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The Derfner Judaica Museum at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale presents Tradition and Remembrance: Treasures, which explorers the intersections of Jewish history and memory. Among the featured objects in the exhibition are a silver filigree vase, 1911, and an early copper alloy Hanukkah lamp, from the famed Benzalel School of Arts and Crafts founded in Jerusalem in 1906. Other projects relating to Jewish practice come from near and far, including a set of 18th century German Torah implements from Meerholz Germany and a velvet fish-scale embroidered matzah cover from the 19th century Jerusalem. The museum is located at 5901 Palisades Avenue. Call (718) 581-1596 for the museum’s new hours.