OF Fest! Miranda Brown/Noa Rui-Piin Weiss; Nattie Trogdon/Hollis Bartlett

Out-FRONT! Fest is a new dance, performance art, and film festival championing the voices of LGBTQ and Feminist artists for a lively exchange of art and culture. The Out-FRONT! Festival 2025 is curated by Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, Philip Treviño, and Daniel Diaz; producer Remi Harris, and cultural organizer Joyce Isabelle. The Festival features award-winning artists who enlighten, entertain and promote conversations around aesthetic diversity and personal journeys on the intersection of mutual ideas, cultures, and meanings.

This performance will take place at Judson Church.

General Admission and Free tickets available. All are welcome!

Miranda Brown + Noa Rui-Piin Weiss

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We follow instructions. We fail at following instructions. We are described. We are indescribable. We steal the Declaration of Independence. We face our fears on the dance floor. We leave with no fears.

Choreography and Performance: Miranda Brown + Noa Rui-Piin Weiss

Sound Design: Miranda Brown + Noa Rui-Piin Weiss

Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett

VESSELS

VESSELS is a work of memory and from memory - part fantastical dream state and part mundane maneuver. Two performers draw on a shared archive of material from pop culture, bodily memory and instinctual responses; blurring the legibility of their embodied histories and personal desires. Distorting and repeating these forms, however horrific or ecstatic, in the pursuit of something that feels like transformation or preservation or simply just aliveness. VESSELS is a dance of desperate meanings unraveling unto some queer itch that feels like home.

Choreography and Performance: Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett

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DIRECTIONS:

Judson Church

The entrance is located at

243 Thompson Street

New York, NY 10012

Subway:

A, C, E, B, D, F, M to West 4th Street or N, Q, R to NYU 8th Street.

Accessibility:

Our accessible entrance is by way of 243 Thompson St. Use the lift to get to the Meeting Room on Level 3 or our accessible bathrooms on Level B (basement). Return to Level 1 for street access back to the corner of West 4th & Thompson St.

Photo By: Lily Cole (L) and Whitney Browne (R)

Host or Publisher Pioneers Go East Collective