Performatist
    Dance

    Jim Henson: Tele-Visionary

    Illustration for Jim Henson: Tele-Visionary

    Saturday, May 16, 2026

    1:00 PM

    Scheduled

    About This Event

    Live event at Museum of the Moving Image

    About Jim Henson: Tele-Visionary

    At Museum of the Moving Image, *Jim Henson: Tele-Visionary* reframes Henson’s television work as choreography: hands, puppets, and camera cues moving in tight coordination. Installed as a live program in Queens, it traces how studio-era variety formats and children’s TV shaped a distinctly New York production culture, where performance and engineering shared the same floor. The piece’s quiet argument is that Henson’s real innovation was timing, not sentiment, and that timing reads like dance when placed under a museum lens.