About this Event
Out-FRONT! Fest. A Festival curated by Pioneers Go East Collective and presented in partnership with Judson Memorial Church.
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 2026 is curated by Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, Philip Treviño, Remi Harris, 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!
Anichi Moon (Ching-I Chang)
Ocean Between Our Names (premiere)
Anichi Moon’s Oceans Between Our Names explores migration, diasporic memory, and how displacement lives within the body over time. The work originated in December 2025 from a dream and a ritual of folding paper boats; a practice born from longing for home. It reflects on how distance turns memory into a beacon of hope, using black, white, and colored paper to give physical shape to nostalgic fragments. Paper boats act as central motifs and metaphors for the body: fragile, vulnerable, yet capable of carrying history across uncertain terrain. The work traces migration journeys across separate oceans, unfolding in parallel worlds shaped by distance, loss, persistence, and adaptation. Oceans Between Our Names invites audiences into quiet acts of witness, reflecting on personal histories and the courage required for transformation.
Performed by Marie Lloyd Paspe, Maria Takeuchi aka ÉMU, Ibrahima Sidibe, and Anichi Moon (Ching-I Chang). Music by Maria Takeuchi aka ÉMU. Design by Anichi Moon (Ching-I Chang).
Tristan Koepke | Big Boy Dance
Bunk Beds (New York premiere)
Drawing inspiration from Andie Nordgren’s manifesto for relationship anarchy, Bunk Beds (2025) reiterates and expands choreographic material and creative inquiries from Tristan Koepke's previous collaborations with dance artist Benny Olk, There’s Only One Bed (2023) and There’s More Than One Bed (2024), into a performance that ruptures and refracts into something uniquely new. This work includes nods to Merce Cunningham and John Cage's chance procedures, pop culture references, thirst traps, and high-intensity athletics. Seeking to reframe and transcend conventional narratives of Cunningham and Cage’s collaborations, which often diminish their queer romance and radicalism, Bunk Beds catalyzes the ways in which LGBTQ+ artistic legacies are preserved, embodied, and reimagined through new performance. Bunk Beds premiered at Cove Street Arts in April 2025.
Directed by Tristan Koepke. Performed by Emilia Bruno, Tristan Koepke, Daniel Miramontes, Benny Olk, Christina Robson, and Curtis Thomas. Dramaturgy: Rebecca Steinberg. Lighting design by Audrey Kastner. Sound design by Tristan Koepke. Music composed by Ethan Philbrick.
Running time: 90 minutes with a 15-minute intermission.
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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.
Event venue & nearby stays
Judson Memorial Church, 243 Thompson, New York, United States
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