Fly by Wire

Choreographer
John Heginbotham

Composer
Tyondai Braxton

Lighting Design
Nicole Pearce

Costume Design
Maile Okamura

Performers
5 dancers and Alarm Will Sound

Run Time
7 minutes

"[Heginbotham's] language is undeniably inventive, an unusual hybrid of balletic formalism and cartoonish gesture." The New York Times 

Premiere: February 20, 2014
Charles Engelhard Court, Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY

Fly By Wire was choreographed at The Watermill Center - a laboratory for performance - in November 2013.

In this site-specific performance created for The Charles Engelhard Court, Alarm Will Sound and Dance Heginbotham pair movement with the music of Tyondai Braxton, Aphex Twin, Edgard Varèse, and Raymond Scott. Explore more at MetMedia: http://www.metmuseum.org/metmedia/video Program: Edgard Varèse, "Integrales"** Transition 1 (electronic playback): Raymond Scott, Manhattan Research, Inc; In the Hall Of The Mountain Queen Aphex Twin, A.K.A Richard D.