Dance
Dark Theater
Dance Heginbotham
Choreography by John Heginbotham
As a dancer with Mark Morris Dance Group, John Heginbotham won
over audiences with his magnetism and incisive musicality. With
Dance Heginbotham, he combines clever movement with a range of
music, from Daft Punk to Irving Berlin, into an utterly compelling
form of dance-theater.
For their BAM debut, Heginbotham and company present Dark
Theater, a brand new work inspired by Dadaist painter Francis
Picabia’s provocative 1924 ballet Relâche, set to a
mellifluous score by Erik Satie. Six dancers inhabit a blissfully
nonsensical world in which the floor and ceiling are occasionally
reversed, the non sequitur is king, and movement perpetually
affirms the now.
Lighting design by Nicole Pearce
Costume design by Maile Okamura
The 2013 Next Wave Festival showcases the very best in contemporary performance, plus artist talks, storytelling, visual art, and film.
Thu, Oct 31 at 8:30pm
Fisher Lower Lobby, BAM Fisher, 321 Ashland Pl, Brooklyn
FREE with Oct 31 ticket to Dark Theater, The Lodger, or Nosferatu. First come, first served.
Choreographer John Heginbotham leads this modern dance technique workshop designed to improve strength and musicality and featuring dynamic phrases from his company’s repertory.
John Heginbotham is the founding director of Dance Heginbotham.