Repertory Workshop with John Heginbotham

Dance Cork Firkin Crane is delighted to welcome John Heginbotham, Artistic Director of Dance Heginbotham, to lead a repertory workshop whilst in Cork this May. John is here for an initial site visit for a project being developed with Cork Opera House for 2026.

Dive deeper into the Dance Heginbotham experience by learning company repertoire. The class will start with a contemporary-based warm up and progress to a virtuosic movement experience.

Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, John graduated from The Juilliard School (1993) and was a member of Mark Morris Dance Group (1998–2012). He is the Artistic Director of Dance Heginbotham (founded in 2011 with Adrienne Bryant). DH has toured nationally and abroad, collaborating with artists and ensembles including Isaac Mizrahi, Maira Kalman, Peter Sellars, Maile Okamura, Colin Jacobsen, Tyondai Braxton, Joshua Bell, Ethan Iverson, Brooklyn Rider, The Knights, and Alarm Will Sound. John choreographed Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy, Season 3 (2023 World Choreography Award nominee), the Tony and Olivier Award-winning revival of Oklahoma! (Daniel Fish, director), and he has created works for ballet and opera companies including The Washington Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, BalletX, Dutch National Opera, LA Opera, San Francisco Opera, and the Cork Opera House (Maria de Buenos Aires in 2013, directed by Conor Hanratty). Awards include a 2019 OBIE Award (Special Citation for Oklahoma! at St. Ann’s Warehouse), Guggenheim Fellowship (2018), and a Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award (2014). John is the Director of the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble, on faculty at Dartmouth College, and is a founding teacher of Dance for PD®. Recent projects include Woolgathering (Baryshnikov Arts), a spoken word opera directed and composed by Oliver Tompkins Ray, featuring Patti Smith and Music City (Bedlam Theatre), a new Off-Broadway production featuring music by J.T. Harding, book by Peter Zinn, and directed by Eric Tucker.

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