Momix, creator of startlingly original, strikingly beautiful dance programs, returns to Tampa on Saturday

Credit: Max Pucciariello / c/o David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts Maybe no single person has done more to expand the boundaries of contemporary dance than Moses Pendleton. In the early-1970s he co-founded Pilobolus, the legendary dance-theater company named after a fungus that grows in dung. A decade later, he started Momix (stylized all-caps), his current company, named after a brand of cattle feed. Momix returns to Tampa this weekend with an update of Pendleton’s classic work “Botanica” happening at the David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts. “It’s a piece I did 18 years ago and bought it back and revived it,” Pendleton said in a phone interview with Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. “It’s a series of images around the idea of the four seasons, a loose interpretation of it . We are a visual theater and it’s a series of physical, visual images that connect to the natural world. The human making contact with the non-human, the plant, the animal, the mineral, e