Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, John Heginbotham graduated from The Juilliard School (1993) and was a member of Mark Morris Dance Group (1998-2012). In 2011, he founded Dance Heginbotham (DH), which has been presented and commissioned by Baryshnikov Arts Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. Company highlights include representing the United States In 2016 on a 6-week tour to Southeast Asia with DanceMotion USASM, a cultural diplomacy initiative of the U.S. Department of State, produced by BAM, as well as numerous collaborations with visionary artists, including Joshua Bell, Maira Kalman, Alarm Will Sound, and Brooklyn Rider, among many others.
Active as a freelance choreographer, John’s current projects include John Adams’ Girls of the Golden West, directed by Peter Sellars (premiere at San Francisco Opera in 2017, touring internationally in 2019); Candide (premiere with Orlando Philharmonic in 2016, touring with The Knights chamber orchestra in 2018/19); and Oklahoma!, directed by Daniel Fish (premiere at Bard Summerscape in 2015, performances at St. Ann’s Warehouse in 2018, opening on Broadway in April 2019).
John is the recipient of the 2014 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award and a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship.
