Dance Heginbotham will have a week-long Creative Residency at Governors Island to continue developing You Look Like a Fun Guy.
Join us for the World Premiere of You Look Like a Fun Guy at Brooklyn Botanic Garden!
You Look Like a Fun Guy is an outdoor performance event inspired by John Cage’s interest in mycology and his methods of composing music. Directed and choreographed by John Heginbotham, You Look Like a Fun Guy celebrates Cage's rigorous and playful concerns as well as the astonishing nature and behavior of fungi. This world premiere performance event, shaped and informed by the Garden’s singular setting, responds to the natural environment it inhabits. All performances at Brooklyn Botanic Garden will take place in their renowned Cherry Esplanade!
Tickets will be available in July.
Performance Dates + Times:
August 1: 6:00pm
August 3: 6:00pm
August 3: 6:00pm
Dance Heginbotham will perform as part of the Pentacle showcase at The Ailey Citigroup Theater in Midtown Manhattan.
Join us to learn about DH's newest project, You Look Like A Fun Guy, an innovate, outdoor event designed to invigorate all of your senses!
In addition, we will perform excerpts of two pieces:
Closing Bell, a virtuosic tour de force for four dancers, inspired Tyondai Braxton's album, Central Market
The Planets, an immersive evening, propelling audiences through our celestial environment
***Please note that the Ailey Citigroup Theater requires that all showcase attendees must be masked at all times.
Since 2007, Works & Process has produced sold-out performances of Sergei Prokofiev’s charming children’s classic Peter & the Wolf, directed and narrated by Isaac Mizrahi. After over one hundred performances, Mizrahi was inspired to create an homage to this iconic work, and during the pandemic Works & Process commissioned Third Bird with a new score by Nico Muhly. Highlighting a cast of eight—including a flying bluebird, a swimming duck, and a running ostrich—with choreography by John Heginbotham performed by Dance Heginbotham, accompanied by Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, and conducted by Michael P. Atkinson, Third Bird celebrates each individual’s unique strengths.
Performance Schedule:
December 15: 6:30pm
December 16: 2:30pm, 4:00pm
Isaac Mizrahi narrates and directs Sergei Prokofiev’s charming children’s classic, Peter & the Wolf, accompanied by Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, conducted by Michael P. Atkinson. Choreographed by John Heginbotham and performed by Dance Heginbotham, the cast, wearing costumes by Mizrahi, brings the 30-minute story to life for the young and young at heart.
Performance Schedule:
December 8: 6:30pm
December 9: 1:00pm, 2:30pm, 4:00pm
December 10: 1:00pm, 2:30pm, 4:00pm
Celebrate the shroom boom with a fun, imaginative and sensory evening of exploration, with an outdoor performance of You Look Like A Fun Guy, communal four-course feast in majestic Armor Hall and lively conversation with Wave Hill's Associate Director of Horticulture Steven Conaway, PhD., and choreographer John Heginbotham. Don't miss out on this extraordinary evening; it promises to awaken your senses and leave you with a newfound appreciation for the world of fungi!
We invite you to join Dance Heginbotham for the culminating event of our two-week Creative Residency in The Bronx. On October 5, we will share our new work-in-progress, You Look Like A Fun Guy on the lush grounds of Wave Hill. Admission is FREE - arrive early so you can stroll the garden grounds prior to our performance on the Lower Lawn at 6pm. No RSVP is required!
We are thrilled to continue developing DH's innovative site-specific work, You Look Like a Fun Guy, at Wave Hill Public Garden & Cultural Center. This is DH's first time creating in The Bronx - we look forward to spending two weeks on Wave Hill's beautiful grounds and taking in the incredible views of The Palisades.
