2025 Out-FRONT! Festival presents Blaze Ferrer and Stuart B Meyers
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2025 Out-FRONT! Festival
2025 Out-FRONT! Festival presents
Blaze Ferrer and Stuart B Meyers
Centering LGBTQ+ and feminist voices, the Out-FRONT! Festival features the work of artists exploring bold new performance modes for a lively exchange of art and culture.
Presented by Pioneers Go East Collective in partnership BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) and Judson Church, January 7-13, 2025.
Curators/Producers: Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, Philip Treviño, Daniel Diaz. Producer and Outreach: Remi Harris. Cultural Organizer: Joyce Isabelle.
“The Out-FRONT! Festival is now in its third year and is here to stay! As a grassroots artist-driven collective, we create a high-visibility platform for dance and interdisciplinary artists whose rigorous, playful, and fabulously outrageous creative practices speak to our community in unexpected and beautiful ways.”
— Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte
Friday, January 10, at 8:30pm and Monday, January 13, at 7pm
Split Bill:
Blaze Ferrer
Dick Biter
&
Stuart B Meyers
thegarden.exc
Judson Church
Dick Biter is a dance that mourns the death of punk while channeling its contemporary detritus. Using deconstructed drag movement, Mylar-fringed butt plugs, traffic cones, and Fiona Apple’s 1997 VMA speech as a springboard, Dick Biter collages dance scores and texts to embody both the divine femme and butch, and propose a space for abrasive, seat-forward revelry. Created and performed by Blaze Ferrer, and performed and generated with Joey Kipp and Alex Romania. Guitar by Alex Romania, lighting design by Ebony M. Burton, sound design and composition by Jeff Aaron Bryant, and costume design by Emily White.
Stuart B Meyers’s thegarden.exc is an abstract movement exploration of the ever-becoming nature of the body and its outer world. As a blueprint for technological invention, the corporeal reveals itself to be a glitching system—one that is ripe for repair, updates, and visioning. By constantly and consciously reconnecting to the body as organic material, the dance wrestles with rediscovering the supportive, unseen forces that sustain us. It moves to remember the spiritual processes and practices that ground our ability to build gleaming futures.
The 2025 festival features performances by Miranda Brown + Noa Rui-Piin Weiss, Blaze Ferrer, Kyle Marshall Choreography, Stuart B Meyers, Angie Pittman, jill sigman/thinkdance, and Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett.
Out-FRONT 2025 will take place at BAM Fisher Hillman Studio (321 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217) and Judson Church (55 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012).
All festival events are free with a suggested donation of $25. Reservations are required and can be made online.
Photos L-R: Blaze Ferrer, photo by Maria Baranova, Stuart B Meyer, photo by Jinjie Jiang.
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