Out-FRONT! Fest. curated by Pioneers Go East Collective

January 10-20, 2024

Radical Queer dance, film, and performance at The LGBT Community Center and Abrons Arts Center

A Radical Queer Art + Dance festival championing the voices of LGBTQ and Feminist artists for a lively exchange of art and culture. Curated by Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, Daniel Diaz, Hilary Brown-Istrefi, and Philip Treviño.

Presented at The LGBT Community Center from January 10- 15, 2024; and Abrons Arts Center from January 17-20, 2024. The festival features performances by Arthur Aviles and Collaborators, Joey Kipp with Pioneers Go East Collective, Christopher Unpezverde Núñez, Jason Anthony Rodriguez, Paz Tanjuaquio, Ogemdi Ude, and Annie MingHao Wang, as well as films by Fana Fraser, Omega X, and Tourmaline.

Where:

The LGBT Community Center
208 West 13th Street - New York, NY 10011

 &

Abrons Arts Center

466 Grand St, New York, NY 10002

2024 Out-FRONT! Festival Schedule

Jason Anthony Rodriguez

Take a Good Look / Meet Me in the Moon 

Wednesday, January 10, at 8pm, and Thursday, January 11, at 7pm

The LGBT Community Center, Theatre 301

 Ticketing

Vogue artist and Pose star Jason Anthony Rodriguez’s work Take a Good Luck takes a direct look into one’s queerness through the perspective of a Dominican, dancer, actor, Gaymer. The work looks closely at the layers that make us, build us, and rip us apart, exploring tools that allow us to regroup in a healthy manner. Meet Me in the Moon is a piece set by choreographer/teacher Kevin Wynn on the Joffrey Ballet School Summer Intensive in 2013. It will be reset as a solo for these performances.

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Joey Kipp with Pioneers Go East Collective

Tracing Lorraine (World Premiere)

Thursday and Friday, January 11-12, at 8pm

The LGBT Community Center, Theatre 301

  Ticketing

Joey Kipp’s Tracing Lorraine is a theatrical performance and sharing of Kipp’s connection with the Black queer playwright Lorraine Hansberry and her ghost, pulling forth the common thread of personal memory and erasure. Through a trilogy of works by Hansberry, Kipp imagines her humanistic vision for a contemporary audience. Rooted in an early pandemic video work by Kipp based on Hansberry’s play What Use Are Flowers?, Tracing Lorraine deepens his research into the author’s life and work with the addition of two more plays, The Drinking Gourd and Les Blancs. The theme of erasure to rebuilding prevails not only in the plays’ narratives, but also in Hansberry’s and Kipp’s personal histories, separated by over 60 years, in confronting the loss of their identities within normative society and their respective creative/cultural communities.

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Ogemdi Ude

Hear

Saturday, January 13, at 7 pm & and Sunday, January 14, at 6 pm

The LGBT Community Center, Theatre 301

  Ticketing

In Hear, choreographer Ogemdi Ude pulls from a bereft archive of video and sound bites in an attempt to materialize and present the profile of someone lost. The solo, originally a part of a trilogy, is of Ude’s ongoing practice in deriving coping rituals in the aftermath of loss. Her work is built by grieving the loss of loved ones, and preserving the language, movements, and creative actions that emerge from that grief. She opens portals to the dead to communicate with them, retell their stories, and preserve their memory. Can we connect to people who aren’t here anymore by making something out of all the bits that are? Featuring sound by slowdanger. Hear was originally commissioned and presented by Abrons Arts Center in 2022 through the Performance AIRspace Residency, which is supported by the Jerome Foundation.

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Christopher Unpezverde Núñez

YO OBSOLETE

Sunday, January 14, at 7pm, and Monday, January 15, at 8pm

The LGBT Community Center, Theatre 301

 Ticketing

Created by Christopher Unpezverde Núñez, In YO OBSOLETE childhood memories intertwined with intergenerational trauma. Escapism from reality to worlds of fantasy and symbolism. Parallels between the mystical and embodied experiences. YO OBSOLETE meditates on imagination as a survival mechanism. The performance navigates through altered states of consciousness, reaching deep levels of ancestral memory embodied in the form of poetry, songs, movement, installation and story telling. Music by: Alfonso Castro. Design by: Original idea by Christopher Unpezverde Núñez. Curatorial revisit,, care & repair, installation, new set & props by Branden Charles Wallace.

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Arthur Aviles and Collaborators

Naked Vanguard

Wednesday, January 17, and Friday, January 19, at 8pm

Abrons Arts Center Playhouse

 Ticketing

Arthur Aviles continues his Naked Vanguard series, which reimagines several of his classic nude solo dance works. In addition to revealing the body, the works peel back the conventions of Latinx and Black cultures. The works use Aviles’s Swift/Flow dance technique and will be performed by Nikolai McKenzie Ben Rema, Hunter Sturgis, and Aviles. The program includes Morning Dance (2021), In the End, Let’s Begin (2021), Untitled #5A After Ted Shawn AKA Dansé Mexicaine & Jamaïquaine Américaine (World Premiere), and the Bessie Award-winning A Jamaican BattyBwoy in America (2021).

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Annie MingHao Wang

had my mouth (World Premiere)

Thursday, January 18, at 8pm and Saturday, January 20, at 5pm

Abrons Arts Center Playhouse

 Ticketing

Constantly shifting between renewing dualities of being and place, had my mouth is a performance that asks: How do we use dance to speak and to build protected spaces? Derived from choreographer Annie MingHao Wang’s personal and physical inquiries into the human invocations of animal energies within Chinese culture, the work pulls specific inspiration from the lion dance and martial arts. Beyond their role as entertainment, these movement forms were historically practiced as covert training in self-defense as protection against oppressive governmental systems. had my mouth furthers this stance by referencing the diverse influences of martial arts in the US to convey the timeless search for protection through self-expression. Performed by Catherine Chen, Ching-I Chang, and Annie MingHao Wang. Music by Eldar Baruch.

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Paz Tanjuaquio / TOPAZ ARTS Dance Productions

Silweta (World Premiere)

Friday, January 19, at 7pm, and Saturday, January 20, at 6pm

Abrons Arts Center Playhouse

 Ticketing

TOPAZ ARTS Dance Productions will premiere an evening-length dance, Silweta, choreographed and performed by Paz Tanjuaquio with a trio of guest performers, and created in collaboration with sound and visual artist Todd B. Richmond. With Silweta, based on silhouette images of traditional dance forms of the Philippines, Tanjuaquio traces a distant dance in her ongoing process of creating new movement. Behind the silhouettes, Tanjuaquio explores cultural connections, migration, and displacement. Inspired by various texts, including Dead Stars, a short story by her namesake Paz Márquez-Benítez, in which the idea that light from dead stars still shine can be a metaphor for lives lost and a presence of culture that resonates within our bodies. Silweta brings to light edges of a distant dance, tracing the outer limits of our connected lives. The work includes Petroglyph by Indigenous composer Brent Michael Davids, a digital dance of silhouettes made with Onome Ekeh will also be incorporated within the performance.

Film Screenings

Saturday, January 13, 5pm-6:30pm

The LGBT Community Center, Gallery 101

   Ticketing

Interdisciplinary artist Fana Fraser will present a new short film, originally commissioned by TBA21-Academy (Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary) for TBA21 on st_age.

And I was recognized is a portrait film on trans parenthood. The work uses sound and visual abstractions to offer a poetic lens to the intricate and tender space of family. 

The film is created by Omega X, Danni Venne, Matt Harvey and Laura Marie Marciano, and produced by gemstone readings. 

The Personal Things (2016) is an animated film by writer, filmmaker, and activist Tourmaline, whose practice highlights the experiences of Black, queer, and trans communities and their capacity to impact the world. Tourmaline writes, “You have to find your own way to strike back. Black trans elder and legendary activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy describes how everyday personal acts fuel her political activism.”

Workshops at The LGBT Community Center

  Ticketing

Teen Voguing Workshop with Jason Anthony Rodriguez

Friday, January 12, 3-4pm

Storytelling Through Dance for Older Adults with Magda Kaczmarska

Sunday, January 14, 5-6:30pm

Accessibility: The LGBT Community Center and Abrons Arts Center are wheelchair accessible venues.

The introductions for each event will be scripted with captioning shown through projection.

Crossroads series curated by Pioneers Go East Collective at The 14/Y.  Artists: Noa Rui-Piin Weiss & Miranda Brown; GREYZONE; Cara Hagan; Abby Felder; Sabrina Canas, Alex Oliva & Johnny Butler; Angela Schöpke, Emilee Lord, & Mor Mendel. Curators: Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte; Hilary Brown-Istrefi; Anabella Lenzu

RSVP

Free event & sliding scale tickets. All are welcome!

Monday October 30th, 8p
Noa Rui-Piin Weiss with Miranda Brown; GREYZONE with Lindy Fines, McCall Atkinson, Katerina Belmatch, Chisato Yanagisawa; Cara Hagan
curator: Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte

Tuesday October 31, 11a-noon
Abby Felder with Asheville Creative Arts
This iteration of Crossroads + NEXT! Workshop was curated for Young Audiences. Ages 0-5 encouraged, all ages are welcome!

Wednesday November 1, 6p-7p
NEXT! Workshop. Teaching artist: Alex Oliva & Johnny Butler

Wednesday November 1, 8p
tidbit collective with Sabrina Canas, Alex Oliva & Johnny Butler
curator: Hilary Brown-Istrefi 

Thursday November 2, 8p
Angela Schöpke, Emilee Lord, & Mor Mendel
curator: Anabella Lenzu

Crossroads performance and video art series curated by Pioneers Go East Collective.

CROSSROADS (CROSSWINDS, CROSSCURRENTS, CROSSFIRES) Performance + art + poetry + music + dance + food + community. A curated series presented by Pioneers Go East Collective. Crossroads Series features artists who explore new genres and known performance and art-making modes to share their creative practices with other artists and their audiences. Each evening we witness different generations of artists dealing with actual, day-to-day, contemporary challenges to further discussion between artists and to activate a network of exchange and inclusion with social and artistic intervention.

DIRECTIONS: The 14/Y

The 14 Street Y. The entrance is located at 344 E 14th St, New York, NY 10003. Subway: L to 1st Ave or 4, 5, 6, N, Q, R to Union Square.

Subway: Subway: L to 1st Ave or 4, 5, 6, N, Q, R to Union Square.

Accessibility: //The 14 Street Y main entrance is wheelchair accessible with an elevator on the ground floor to provide access to the theater located on the 2nd floor. Restrooms located on the 2nd floor are wheelchair accessible. //The evening’s introductions will be scripted with captions shown through a projection.

ART LIKE LOVE by Pioneers Go East Collective

Collar Works

Featuring: Agosto Machado, ALEXA GRAE, Paul Simon, Mark Tambella, Daniel Diaz, Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, Joey Kipp, Philip Treviño, Richard Morales, Kathleen Kelley, Bryan Baira, Azmi Mert Erdem, Bree Breeden.

Opening & reception: Friday August 25, 2023, from 5pm-7pm
Gallery Exhibition: Friday August 25 to Saturday October 7, 2023

An art exhibition and media installation on how queer art is an act of revolution

Collar Works is pleased to announce Art Like Love! (ALL!), a cycle of films and performance installations by Pioneers Go East Collective, a music performance by ALEXA GRAE, and a new series of drawings and sculptures by collaborators Mark Tambella and Paul Simon. Art Like Love (ALL!) draws on DIY, camp, and genderfuck aesthetics to celebrate and develop otherness as a way to see what the queer community is, where it has failed, and how it can grow. 

Collar Works
621 River Street  ||  Troy, NY 12180  
Hours: Thursday 3-7 pm ||  Friday 3-7 pm  ||  Saturday 10-2

NEXT! Workshops at Judson Church and New York Public Library

Workshops for all ages, no experience necessary. Free events. All are welcome!

All guests will be required to be fully vaccinated (please bring proof of vaccination). All visitors will be required to wear a face-covering at all times while they are at Judson Church. In addition, all surfaces are being sanitized on a regular basis. Please note the performers will perform maskless, but they are fully vaccinated and observing New York State’s Department of Health protocols for in-person events.

DIRECTIONS: Judson Church

The entrance is located at 243 Thompson, New York, New York, 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.

Out-FRONT! Fest. curated by Pioneers Go East Collective

Radical Queer dance, film, and performance at The LGBT Community Center.

RSVP / Free events. S25 donations suggested & sliding scale. All are welcome!

Listen to your Mother by Anabella Lenzu.

Choreography & performance Anabella Lenzu

Wednesday, January 18 & Thursday, January 19 at 7pm

Choreographed and performed by Anabella Lenzu, Listen to your Mother is redefining the place of

mothers, artists, and immigrants in the United States. The work is part of a research/choreographic

art project by Lenzu to capture histories, testimonials, and experiences of mothers who are also

immigrants and artists living and working in New York City to create dialogue, appreciation, and

social support. Music landscape, technology advising, and multimedia by Todd Carroll.

Creative collaborator: Fernando Santiago. Mask design and makeup by Lenzu.

DIRECTIONS: The LGBT Center // The entrance is located at 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011

Subway: A, C, E, L to 14 St / 8 Av or 1, 2 train to 18 Street.

Accessibility: Our accessible entrance is in front of the building

Anabella Lenzu. Photo by Todd Carroll

Out-FRONT! Fest. curated by Pioneers Go East Collective

Radical Queer dance, film, and performance at The LGBT Community Center.

RSVP / Free events. S25 donations suggested & sliding scale. All are welcome!

COLLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR - transfiguration by ALEXA Grae

Tuesday, January 17 & Wednesday, January 18 at 8pm

COLLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR – transfiguration, by interdisciplinary artist and composer ALEXA

GRÆ, is a surrealist multimedia opera engaging stories manifested through body evolutions. It is a

place where messages of trans and queer identity, spiritual downloads, ADHD, Blackness, and

magic interact. A rediscovery of personal power adjacent to movement by way of running. Where

internal truths collide with external myths and reverberate with the body as the messenger.

Negotiating the singular and collective rage, the work opens up Afrofuturistic visions, justice

strategies, and fantastical thoughts tethered by escapism to self-regulate. Vocalized joy poems

bend genres and arias of longing evoke a grand opera thrust into the multiverse.

DIRECTIONS: The LGBT Center // The entrance is located at 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011

Subway: A, C, E, L to 14 St / 8 Av or 1, 2 train to 18 Street.

Accessibility: Our accessible entrance is in front of the building

Photo: ALEXA GRAE (film still)

Out-FRONT! Fest. curated by Pioneers Go East Collective

Radical Queer dance, film, and performance at The LGBT Community Center.

RSVP / Free events. S25 donations suggested & sliding scale. All are welcome!

Salt and Spirit by Jasmine Hearn

Concept and Direction: Jasmine Hearn 

Produced by Nora Alami with Marýa Wethers 

In collaboration with Out-Front Fest Organizers, Pioneers GO East Collective and The Center 

Choreography: Jasmine Hearn with Nora Alami, Dominica Greene, jhon r. stronks, Kendra Portier, Charmaine Warren, and Marýa Wethers 
Sound Design: Jasmine Hearn
Sound: Jasmine Hearn with Coline Creuzot, Lily Gelfand, Angie Pittman, Becky Selles, and Jo Stewart 

Sound references “My Journey to the Sky” by Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight

Garment Design: Jasmine Hearn and Athena Kokoronis of Domestic Performance Agency 

Additional Production Support: Nora Alami, Jasmine Hearn, and Myssi Robinson

DIRECTIONS: The LGBT Center // The entrance is located at 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011

Subway: A, C, E, L to 14 St / 8 Av or 1, 2 train to 18 Street.

Accessibility: Our accessible entrance is in front of the building

Jasmine Hearn. Photo by Sonja Stavrova

Out-FRONT! Fest. curated by Pioneers Go East Collective

Radical Queer dance, film, and performance at The LGBT Community Center.

RSVP / Free events. S25 donations suggested & sliding scale. All are welcome!

835 Hours of Hope & Despair by Arien Wilkerson/Tnmot Aztro + Chloe Newton + Kwami Winfield

Saturday, January 14 at 8pm & Sunday, January 15 at 5.30pm

A multidisciplinary work reflecting on gender, labor, queerness, and the geographic boundaries that

have affected creative paths for young queer Black artists. Wilkerson uses critical analysis and

comedic “transposition persona” to shape dance celebrating Black, radical, “poz” trans, and

nonbinary traditions to entertain, share joy, and explore self-awareness. 835 Hours of Hope &

Despair features Arien Wilkerson and Chloe Newton with live sound accompaniment by

Kwami Winfield. Cultural historian/dramaturge: TK Smith. Written by Wilkerson comprising text

by Cedric J. Robinson, Hortense J. Spillers, Eduardo Cadava, Aaron Levy, Saidiya Hartman,

Adrian Piper, and Uta Hagen. Tech and installation design by Wilkerson and Jacob Weinberg.

DIRECTIONS: The LGBT Center // The entrance is located at 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011

Subway: A, C, E, L to 14 St / 8 Av or 1, 2 train to 18 Street.

Accessibility: Our accessible entrance is in front of the building

Arien Wilkerson. Photo by Adrian Martinez Chavez

Out-FRONT! Fest. curated by Pioneers Go East Collective

Radical Queer dance, film, and performance at The LGBT Community Center.

RSVP / Free events. S25 donations suggested & sliding scale. All are welcome!

Electric Blue by Pioneers Go East Collective. Featuring: ALEXA Grae, Joey Kipp & Daniel Diaz. Creative director Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte; choreography Symara Johnson; visual artist Mark Tambella; production designer Philip Treviño.

Friday, January 13 & Saturday, January 14 at 6p

Electric Blue is a dance-theater installation inspired by radical queer thought-provoking literary icon

Allen Ginsberg. A meditation on creative agency and censorship, Electric Blue celebrates past and

present LGBTQ resilience in pursuit of artistic freedom. The artists deploy personal reflections to

underscore how the experiences of the individual, the artist, and their community are inevitably

bound together, hinting at the potential for collective action. Taking Ginsberg’s writing defined as

pornographic literature when first published, the collective examines the author’s controversial

poetry reflecting on same-sex love and male bonding. Integrating artistic disciplines, the project is

devised in collaboration with three solo performing artists: singer/dancer ALEXA GRÆ,

dancer/storyteller Joey Kipp, and performance artist/storyteller Daniel Diaz.

DIRECTIONS: The LGBT Center // The entrance is located at 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011

Subway: A, C, E, L to 14 St / 8 Av or 1, 2 train to 18 Street.

Accessibility: Our accessible entrance is in front of the building

Photo: Joey Kipp and Daniel Diaz

NEXT! Workshop Series. Low-impact and accessible workshops

Curated by Pioneers Go East Collective in partnership with The LGBT Center

RSVP / Free events (donations suggested & sliding scale). All are welcome!

Friday, January 13 at 6p // NEXT! Workshop with Arien Wilkerson

&

Wednesday, January 18 at 6pm // NEXT! Workshop with Jasmine Hearn

A time to listen, loosen, and locate memory, color, and strength

This workshop is open to anybody that wants to move, sound, remember, and listen. 

My intention is to share an interdisciplinary practice rooted in traditions, practices, and methodologies of improvisation, dance, somatics, performance, preservation, sound composition, garment design, and cooking. We will start with a warm up—a mix of heat generating prompts to move, still, and rest. We will continue with movement, writing, and embodied sound scores shared from performance project, Salt and Spirit. 

To learn more who I am influenced by:  https://www.jasminehearn.com/artist-statement/

NEXT! Engagement Workshop - Storytelling & Movement-based Workshops. A creative engagement program by Pioneers Go East Collective. Designed for multigenerational people - the creative workshop focuses on performance and storytelling techniques, including movement practices, creative writing, and interview-based acting. The goal is to create a nurturing learning environment and build stronger bonds within the participants' community.

All guests will be required to be fully vaccinated (please bring proof of vaccination). All participants must wear a face-covering at all times while at The Center. In addition, all surfaces are sanitized on a regular basis. Please note the performers will perform maskless, but they are fully vaccinated and observing New York State’s Department of Health protocols for in-person events. 

DIRECTIONS: The LGBT Center // The entrance is located at 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011

Subway: A, C, E, L to 14 St / 8 Av or 1, 2 train to 18 Street.

Accessibility: Our accessible entrance is in front of the building.

Photo: Jasmine Hearn

Out-FRONT! Fest. curated by Pioneers Go East Collective

Radical Queer dance, film, and performance at The LGBT Community Center.

RSVP / Free events. S25 donations suggested & sliding scale. All are welcome!

The Kitchen Sink Wrangler at the Midnight Rodeo.

Choreography, creative direction & film by Symara Johnson

Thursday, January 12 & Friday, January 13, at 8pm

The Kitchen Sink Wrangler at the Midnight Rodeo is an exploration into the artist’s American and

West Indian heritage. Formally trained in Caribbean dance techniques in Trinidad, Symara

Johnson combines the methodologies of folk and modern dance to explore her family history

within the United States, of which there is a limited archive. Johnson uses family lore and American

cultural fantasy to create and project a persona that embodies and is in conversation with her

lineage in the Wild West and the Deep South. In the piece, the rope becomes both a prop and

partner as Johnson embodies her cowgirl persona. She uses the rope as a boundary, holding it

taut and creating shapes for her body to deftly navigate. She surveils the land around her,

responding to her surroundings with playful curiosity. When she begins to lasso, the rope

transforms into a mesmerizing and dynamic sculptural accompaniment.

DIRECTIONS: The LGBT Center // The entrance at 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011 // Subway: A, C, E, L to 14 St / 8 Av or 1, 2 to 18 Street.

Accessibility: Our accessible entrance is in front of the building

Symara Johnson. Photo by Olga Rabetskaya

NEXT! WORKSHOPS by Pioneers Go East Collective in partnership with New York Public Library

Free events. All are welcome!

New York Public Library: RSVP

RSVP May 14

RSVP May 21

RSVP June 11

New York Public Library: RSVP

When:

Saturday May 7 & May 21 from 3pm -4.30pm - Body Mapping: Workshop for Young adults/ Adults.

Saturday May 14 & June 11 from 3pm -4.30pm - Body Mapping: Workshop for Families and children 6 years old and up.

NEXT! Workshops series led by teaching artist Anabella Lenzu at New York Public Library

Body Mapping Workshop series

Low-impact and open to all, the workshops are designed by Anabella Lenzu who has 20+ years of experience teaching students of all ages. How do our bodies become a receptacle and messenger of the multiple realities we are immersed in? The workshop challenges the participants to think about how they view bodies, using drawings to share their own stories of their bodies. Body maps are a way of storytelling, much like totems that contain symbols with different meanings but whose significance can only be understood in relation to the creator's overall story and experience and creativity! Body maps allow us to connect with emotions and life circumstances to give voice and visibility to one's identity. It's not the artwork that matters; it's the message.

My name'sound installation by Pioneers Go East Collective. BRIC ARTS MEDIA residency.

Free events on April 14 and 15 at 7p & 8p. All are welcome!

RSVP: pioneersgoeast@gmail.com

Featuring: Joey Kipp, Daniel Diaz, Agosto Machado, syd island, Vanessa Rappa, Richard Morales, Doron Perk, Symara Johnson. Creative team: Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, Philip Treviño, Kryssy Wright, Mark Tambella, Mert Erdem, Mariya Chulichkova, Michael Wilson, Bryan Baira, Matt Chilton.

My name'sound installation and film conceived by Pioneers Go East Collective.

My name’sound is inspired by thought-provoking literary icon James Baldwin’s Artist Manifesto. A meditation on creative agency and Queer identity, we create a space of inclusion to celebrate cross-cultural and contemporary stories of resilience and otherness, juxtaposed against censorship and isolation.

BRIC ARTS MEDIA

Location: 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY.

LUCKY STAR (0.3) by Pioneers Go East Collective

A Dance-theatre performance installation presented at Judson Memorial Church (Main Space)

Location: 55 Washington Square S, New York, NY 10012

When: July 13-30, 2021

RSVP: Eventbrite link

Dates: Tuesday, July 13, 8p, Thursday, July 15, 8p, Friday, July 16, 8p, Tuesday, July 20, 8p, Thursday, July 22, 8p , Friday, July 23, 8p, Tuesday, July 27, 8p, Thursday, July 29, 8p, Friday, July 30, 8p.

About the project:

LUCKY STAR ().3) by Pioneers Go East Collective is a queer dance performance, part underground club inspired by the famed Club 57, part video art installation. Looking back at the landscape of the downtown DIY art-making starting from Stonewall up until the 90s and locating it at such venues as Judson Church, La MaMa, Pyramid Club - we explore the intersectionality of Queer artists and their creative legacy. Borrowing superstardom fabulousness to celebrate queer bodies, the objectification, creative endurance, and pursuit of artistic fame, LUCKY STAR is trippy and irreverent, with performers cast as supernatural and alternate-universe superstar versions of themselves. A transmedia and creative wonderland, we create a fluid and interconnected queer space for supernatural experiences. In 5 episodes, performance artists Bree Breeden, Daniel Diaz, Joey Kipp, Shaina and Bryan Baira, and Agosto Machado bring their unique combination of cosmic-queer storytelling to the live space.

The Collective

Choreographers and performers on stage and on video: Daniel Diaz (writer), Bree Breeden, Joey Kipp. Video performances: Shaina and Bryan Baira (film-makers & choreographers), Beth Graczyk, with a cameo appearance by downtown icon and Stonewall witness Agosto Machado (voice-over & narrator). Writer & creative director Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte. Production designer & writer Philip Treviño. Choreographer (ensemble) Ori Flomin. Film-makers: Jon Burklund and Kathleen Kelley. Video designer Kathleen Kelley. Set designer and fabricator Mark Tambella. Sound designers Ryan William Downey and Marielle Iljazoski.

For more info RSVP email: pioneersgoeast@gmail.com