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Momix Last Saturday I went to the theater to see "Momix". It's a theater company of dancers and acrobats, created and directed by Moses Pendleton. The name of this group comes from the cattle feed. It's famous for excellent works and it has got a big fame for its capacity to summon a world of surreal images using bodies, theatrical suits and light shows. This theater company performs in international tournée. Some choreographies suggests disparate sacred symbols but Pandleton clarifies that his Bible is nature: "The Bible of the herb, animals and minerals".

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I'm not sure why nobody has corrected this, though in fact there is very little to correct; on the whole it's quite well written.

Momix

Last Saturday I went to the theater to see "Momix". It's a theater company of dancers and acrobats, created and directed by Moses Pendleton. The name of this group comes from the cattle feed. It's famous for excellent works and it has got a big fame for its capacity to summon a world of surreal images using bodies, theatrical suits and light shows.

You wouldn't say "has got a big fame" in English. "Famous" is obviously the adjective form, but you should generally avoid using the same adjective twice when they're so close together. There are many ways that you could say this, for example:

"It has achieved renown for excellent works, and is hugely famous for for its capacity to... etc."


This theater company performs in international tournée tours.

It is true that English steals words from other languages the way a kleptomaniac cat burglar steals diamonds... but "tournee" is one word that has not come into common use in English. I would use the native word "tours".

"In" is arguable; if they are performing in tours that were organised by other people then it's OK, but if they organise the tours themselves then they aren't really performing in a tour as performing a tour. But as I said, you could argue that either way.

Some choreographies suggests disparate sacred symbols but Pandleton (Pendleton?) clarifies that his Bible is nature: "The Bible of the herb, animals and minerals".


1/ You could get away with "clarifies" here since you have suggested a source for his inspiration; he could be "clarifying" what the source really is. However I would be more inclined to use "claims". (Or perhaps "asserts", but "claims" is simpler.)

2/ You would only normally capitalise "bible" if it was referring to the holy book of Christianity, or to a book which had that word as part of its title like "The SQL Server 2005 Bible". When you're talking about a metaphorical bible - a set of principles, sometimes in the form of a book, sometimes not - that people adhere to, you would use a lower case b.

3/ I would say "plants". Herbs are specific types of plants but it's more common to say "plants and animals" unless you are being specific about the type.

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I had to find DISPARATE in the dictionary. Your English is better than mine !! Congratulazioni!

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