INTERVENTIONS: YOU LOOK LIKE A FUN GUY

Dance Hegin­both­am

June 7 + 8

Governors Island National Monument - Governors Island National Monument - Fort Jay

June 7 & 8, 6:30PM, Fort Jay Moat

All are invit­ed to join an upcom­ing open rehearsal by Dance Hegin­both­am of their newest work, You Look Like a Fun Guy, which will have its world pre­mière at the Brook­lyn Botan­ic Gar­den in August 2024. Free with registration.

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. Broad­cast­ing and height­en­ing the nat­ur­al son­ic envi­ron­ment live, Omar Zubair’s audio instal­la­tion plays with the audience’s per­cep­tion of real­i­ty and is paired with orig­i­nal music com­posed by Col­in Jacob­son, with cos­tumes by Maile Oka­mu­ra. 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. Shaped and informed by its sur­round­ings, this unique per­for­mance event responds to the nat­ur­al envi­ron­ment it inhabits.

Pre­sent­ed as part of INTER­VEN­TIONS, a site-respon­sive, mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary free annu­al per­for­mance series from Gov­er­nors Island Arts that presents local, nation­al, and inter­na­tion­al artists and invites audi­ences to expe­ri­ence work made and adapt­ed for the out­doors. Inter­ven­tions is curat­ed by Juan Pablo Siles, Asso­ciate Cura­tor and Pro­duc­er at the Trust for Gov­er­nors Island. 

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