2025 Out-FRONT! Festival presents jill sigman/thinkdance

Centering LGBTQ+ and feminist voices, the Out-FRONT! Festival features the work of artists exploring bold new performance modes for a lively exchange of art and culture.

Presented by Pioneers Go East Collective in partnership BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) and Judson Church, January 7-13, 2025.

Curators/Producers: Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, Philip Treviño, Daniel Diaz. Producer and Outreach: Remi Harris. Cultural Organizer: Joyce Isabelle.

“The Out-FRONT! Festival is now in its third year and is here to stay! As a grassroots artist-driven collective, we create a high-visibility platform for dance and interdisciplinary artists whose rigorous, playful, and fabulously outrageous creative practices speak to our community in unexpected and beautiful ways.” -- Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte 

Wednesday, January 8, and Thursday, January 9, at 7pm jill sigman/thinkdance
Re-Seeding (Encounter #4)
Judson Church 

Continuing Jill Sigman’s movement, sound, and visual research practices, Re-Seeding (Encounter #4) is a rigorous, ritual-based process grounded in an exploration of our interconnectedness to land and each other. It grows out of Sigman’s many years of making dances and installations about environmental and social justice issues. Building on this, Re-Seeding asks what it could mean for humans to “re-seed” themselves on land where they are not native—land that has been colonized and occupied—in a way that moves toward healing. What would it mean to understand the past and aspire toward collective well-being? What can those living in diaspora learn from plants that root themselves in new places and contribute to ecosystems in positive ways? In essence, it is a search for a better way to live on and with this land and its history. 

Photo: jill sigman/thinkdance, photo by Jeremy Dennis. 

The 2025 festival features performances by Miranda Brown + Noa Rui-Piin Weiss, Blaze Ferrer, Kyle Marshall Choreography, Stuart B Meyers, Angie Pittman, jill sigman/thinkdance, and Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett.

Out-FRONT 2025 will take place at BAM Fisher Hillman Studio (321 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217) and Judson Church (55 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012).

All festival events are free with a suggested donation of $25. Reservations are required and can be made online at https://www.eventbrite.com/o/pioneers-go-east-collective-32986072425.