You Look Like a Fun Guy Open Rehearsals

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Join an upcoming open rehearsal on Governors Island from Dance Heginbotham, presented by Governors Island Arts.

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INTERVENTIONS

Site-responsive, multidisciplinary 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. Curated by Juan Pablo Siles.

<a href="https://gov-island-site.s3.amazonaws.com/pages/INTERVENTIONS-Program_You-Look-Like-A-Fun-Guy.pdf" title="https://gov-island-site.s3.amazonaws.com/pages/INTERVENTIONS-Program_You-Look-Like-A-Fun-Guy.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE EVENT PROGRAM</a>All are invited to join an upcoming open rehearsal by <a href="https://www.danceheginbotham.org/" title="https://www.danceheginbotham.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dance Heginbotham</a> of their newest work, You Look Like a Fun Guy, which will have its <a href="https://www.bbg.org/visit/event/dance_heginbothams_you_look_like_a_fun_guy" title="https://www.bbg.org/visit/event/dance_heginbothams_you_look_like_a_fun_guy" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">world premiere</a> 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 <a href="https://www.govisland.com/about/arts-culture#entry:64611@2:url" title="https://www.govisland.com/about/arts-culture#entry:64611@2:url" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Governors Island Arts </a>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.Photo: Dance Heginbotham shot at Wave Hill featuring performers Lindsey Jones, Mykel Marai Nairne, Andrea Weber, Gabrielle Hamilton, Paige Kulbeth. Photo by Whitney Browne.

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