John Heginbotham / “Fantasque”

This gently surrealist fantasia, the product of a collaboration between the quirky dancemaker John Heginbotham and the puppeteer Amy Trompetter, premièred two years ago, at Bard. Set in motion by a suite of piano pieces by Rossini and Respighi, Heginbotham’s dancers and Trompetter’s homemade-looking puppets enact a kind of dance fable about the clash between good and evil, darkness and light. The puppets, sometimes wearable, sometimes large enough to be carried in sections, are the real stars of the show. The sensitive pianist George Shevtsov plays onstage.