Out-FRONT! Fest. Presenting: jill sigman/thinkdance

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.

General Admission and Free tickets available. All are welcome!

Re-Seeding (Encounter #4) by jill sigman/thinkdance

Continuing jill sigman/thinkdance’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.

Concept and Direction: jill sigman

Design: jill sigman

Ceramics: jill sigman

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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: Jeremy Dennis

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