Overview
A Festival curated by Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, Remi Harris, Philip Treviño, and Joyce Isabelle.
Out-FRONT! Fest. A Festival curated by Pioneers Go East Collective and presented in partnership with Judson Memorial Church.
The Out-FRONT! Festival is curated by Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, Remi Harris Philip Treviño, and 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 Memorial Church. General Admission and Free tickets available. All are welcome!
Sugar Vendil presents: Antonym: the opposite of nostalgia (World Premiere)
Antonym: the opposite of nostalgia is a memoir of a Filipinx American childhood that interweaves chamber music, dance, and nonlinear theater in an interdisciplinary performance. Excavating seemingly insignificant but deeply ingrained memories, Antonym envisions the future as an escape from pain and ponders how we can possess painful memories without being beholden to them. Using field recordings of New York City to create a rich sonic landscape, the four seasons serve as a cyclical frame and context for memory. "Antonym" invites audiences to reflect on their own relationships with memory, identity, and imagining their own futures.
Presented with collaboration and support from Pink Fang (pinkfang.org/ @pinkfangnyc)
Composer/Choreographer/Pianist/Performer: Sugar Vendil
Flutist/performer: Annie Nikunen
Violinist/performer: Cindy Lan
Vocalist/dancer: Marie Lloyd Paspe
Vocalist/dancer: Annie Wang
Director and Dramaturg: Mei Ann Teo, Pink Fang
Costume and Set Design: Harriet Jung
Lighting Design: Hao Bai
Contributing Choreography: Cindy Lan, Annie Nikunen, Marie Lloyd Paspe, Annie Wang
Rehearsal Director: Katherine Paola De La Cruz
Stage Manager: orion
Alexa Grae presents: Tone Pillar (World Premiere)
Tone Pillar is assembled from research and snapshots of a quarantine and uprisings, rooted in blackness, in trans-queer identity, in neurodiversity, and with magic. The veil has only continued to weaken, truths submerged rise to the surface. Tone Pillar accumulates through bent genres, arias of longing serve as musical anchors, movement that conjures meditative states open portals, protagonists building worlds and revolutions, this live work builds an absurd Atlantis and invites the audience in. Grae engages in the thrills of virtuosity through systems of alignment that focus on stories and vehicles of transformation that happen in the steps of a protest and the thump of the dancefloor.
Composer + Libretto: Alexa Grae
Choreogrpahy/Direction/ Video Projection Design: Stephanie Acosta
Costume Design + Construction: Isaac Pool
Performance: Alexa Grae, Nina Guevara, Hilary Brown-Istrefi, and Justin Mun Wong
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DIRECTIONS:
Judson Church
243 Thompson Street
New York, NY 10012
Subway:
A, C, E, B, D, F, M to West 4th Street
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.