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Mr. Pendleton has created new works for the Arizona Ballet and the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, and he teamed up with Danny Ezralow and David Parsons, both former MOMIX dancers, to choreograph AEROS with the Romanian National Gymnastics Team. He has also made music videos with Prince, Julian Lennon, and Cathy Dennis, among others.
He is a recipient of a 2002 American Choreography Award for his contributions to choreography for film and television. He has staged Picabia’s Dadaist ballet Relache for the Joffrey Ballet and Tutuguri, based on the writings of Artaud, for the Deutsch Opera Berlin.
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More recently, he has choreographed new works for the Arizona Ballet and the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. The three decided to choreograph a work for an end-of-year performance and they named it Pilobolus after a sun-loving fungus that frequently grows in barnyards, shooting its spores across enormous distances. After a popular series of local performances, Murray Louis arranged a New York premiere for the group.
He is a recipient of a 2002 American Choreography Award for his contributions to choreography for film and television. Most recently, Pendleton choreographed the Doves of Peace, featuring Diana Vishneva, for the Opening Ceremony of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. He teamed up with Danny Ezralow and David Parsons to choreograph AEROS with the Romanian National Gymnastics Team.
His film and television work includes the feature film FX2 with Cynthia Quinn, Moses Pendleton Presents Moses Pendleton for ABC ARTS cable (winner of more than 10 international awards including a Cine Golden Eagle award and the US Film and Video Competition – now known as Sundance – Special Jury Award), and Pictures at an Exhibition with Charles Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony, which received an International Emmy for Best Performing Arts Special in 1991.
Lang for M.A.C. Images of his sunflower plantings at his home in northwestern Connecticut have been featured in numerous books and articles on gardening. She collaborated on the choreography of Day Two, Elegy for the Moment, Mirage, What Grows in Huygens Window and Stabat Mater. He contributed choreography to Lina Wertmuller’s production of Carmen at the Munich State Opera in 1993.
He received his BA in English Literature from Dartmouth College in 1971. Ms. Quinn was also featured in the film, “First Born,” with Elisabeth Shue. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1977, a recipient of the Connecticut Commission on the Arts Governor’s Award in 1998, received the Positano Choreographic Award in 1999, and the 2002 American Choreography Award for his contributions to choreography for film and television.
Their innovative architectural style, an exploration of physicality and physics, created an immediate sensation, and Pilobolus became the name of the company founded by Pendleton. By the end of the decade, he had begun to work outside of Pilobolus, performing in and serving as principal choreographer for the Paris Opera’s Intégrale Erik Satie in 1979 and choreographing the Closing Ceremony of the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid in 1980.