The Heron’s Flight
Synopsis
Our 2025 Summer Spectacle The Heron’s Flight is a performance which travels through the gardens, barns, and waterways of DE’s Farm Center. A great blue heron perches silently in a tree, then breaks the surface of the cool green water.
Familiar and mythological creatures gather for a Midsummer Feast — an explosive celebration of love, dance, and flight. Walk with us toward transformation in an impossible world as we embrace the knowledge of the land.
Adapted and inspired from Gabriel García Márquez’s The Old Man with Enormous Wings, Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles & Circe, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, LaRhonda Toreson, Nalungiaq’s Magic Words, and the poetry of Joy Harjo.
Conceived and Directed by Jennifer Johnson and Travis Coe. Created with the Double Edge Ensemble and Company.
- Winged Serpent
- Milena Dabova
- Chiron
- Carlos Uriona
- Bull / Minotaur
- Karol Matuszak
- Bird / Phoenix
- Victor Rafael Figueroa
- Deer
- Daina Robins
- Fox
- Tricia Trinh
- Goat
- John Peitso
- Bear
- Amanda Miller
- Rooster
- Manuel Uriona
- Coyote
- Mica Farias Gomez
- Rabbit
- Ewa Timingeriu
- Porcupine
- Dylan Young
- Beaver / Heron Puppet
- Robert Carlton
- Magic Words spoken by
- Kim Pevia
- Conceived and Directed by
- Jennifer Johnson and Travis Coe
- Created with
- The Double Edge Ensemble and Company
- Original Text by
- Jennifer Johnson and Travis Coe
- Music Composition
- John Peitso with Amanda Miller and Manuel Uriona
- Choreography
- Milena Dabova and Victor Rafael Figueroa
- Aerial Choreography
- Cariel Klein and Stacy Klein
- Dramaturgy
- Nina Mankin, Amrita Ramanan, Kim Pevia
- Design and Scenography
- Stacy Klein
- Costume Designer
- Tadea Klein
- Structural Costume & Flower Design
- Amanda Miller
- Puppet Design
- Cynthia Parker-Houghton (Minotaur & Heron), Amanda Miller and Andrew Todd (Centaur), Michal Kuriata (Heron Wings)
- Lighting Designer
- John Peitso
- Landscape and Wood Tree Designs
- Silas Riemer
- Technical Design and Direction
- Andrew Todd
- Sound Design
- Manuel Uriona and John Peitso
- Rigging
- Adam Bright and Andrew Todd
- Producer
- Cariel Klein
- Co-Producer
- Dylan Young
- Executive Director
- Adam Bright
- Artwork
- Michal Kuriata
- July & August 2025 — Double Edge's Farm Center
- July & August 2024 — Double Edge's Farm Center
