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 Trevino, 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. jill sigman/thinkdance: Re-Seeding (Encounter #4: The Seamstress) Re-Seeding is an iterative performance process that explores our interconnectedness to land and each other. In this new iteration, Encounter #4: The Seamstress, Sigman brings her own lineage as a non-Indigenous person with a history of Jewish grief, immigrant displacement, and trauma to the land that is now called Washington Square--once the homeland of the Lenape people, the site of a disappeared underground creek, part of a free Black farming community, a military parade ground, and a mass grave in which some 20,000 people are buried. In a performance landscape of mulberry and cherry tree stumps, Sigman casts family artifacts and clay body parts in a divining ritual of self-understanding, memorializing her recently deceased father, and acknowledging the painful history of this occupied land. The piece is a solo dance in which Jill is joined by three live musicians, Miguel Frasconi on glass instruments, Gustavo Aguilar on percussion, and Kristin Norderval on voice and electronics, and theater/spoken word artist Vida Landron (African, Powhatan, Taino). Movement: Jill Sigman Music: Kristin Norderval (voice, electronics), Gustavo Aguilar (percussion), Miguel Frasconi (glass) Witness/Spoken Word: Vida Landron Text: Vida Landron Spatial Design: Jill Sigman
New York City, NY; NYC