(image courtesy Dance Heginbotham)
DANCE HEGINBOTHAM | You Look Like a Fun Guy
August 1, 2 & 3, 2024 | 7 p.m. doors;
performances begin at 7:45 p.m.
Cherry Esplanade
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. With live rebroadcasting and heightening the natural sonic environment, Omar Zubair’s audio installation plays with the audience’s perception of reality. Audiences will be transported from dusk to an illuminated spatial installation. Costume design 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. This performance event is shaped and informed by the venue’s singular setting, responding to the natural environment it inhabits.
Make a night of it! Performance attendees may also reserve tickets for a pre-event party featuring mushroom-inspired drinks and cuisine. See below for details.
Performance tickets: $44 ($39 for members)
Mycology & Mingle pre-event: $78 (10% discount for members); separate reservation required
MYCOLOGY & MINGLE COCKTAIL PARTY (co-organized by NYMS)
Exclusively for performance ticketholders | 6–7:30 p.m.
Lillian and Amy Goldman Atrium at the Steinberg Visitor Center
Indulge in a delightful cocktail party of mushroom-inspired drinks and cuisine before the performance of You Look Like a Fun Guy! Enjoy passed mushroom bites, a mushroom station featuring four different mushroom sliders, mushroom-inspired cocktails, and wine and beer (open bar).
While savoring your drinks and bites, learn about composer John Cage and mycology basics with an intro by the New York Mycological Society, and chat with choreographer John Heginbotham. The event wraps up just before the performance begins.
$78 prepaid (10% discount for members). Be sure to select the same night as your performance tickets.
Prices were set by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Event tickets support BBG’s work which is focused on the conservation, display, and enjoyment of plants; with their educational programs that emphasize learning by doing; and with research focused on understanding and conserving regional plants and plant communities.
More info + tickets here.
Please note: BBG has three different entrances on: Eastern Parkway, Flatbush Ave, and Washington Ave. The closest to the Cherry Esplanade would be: 990 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225.
