John Heginbotham’s Dark Theatre of Attachment

Watching a new dance by John Heginbotham is like witnessing the introduction of a new language. It seems familiar, for it’s built from bits of our experience, or things we’ve seen before. But he raids the grammar and vocabulary and syntax we know and cobbles together something strange and alluring, leaving us off balance, but pleasingly so. “Dark Theater,” the work that his company, Dance Heginbotham, premièred at BAM Fisher recently, was a perfect example of what his fertile mind is able to bring forth.

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