Jim Henson: Tele-Visionary New York Performances

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.