Out-FRONT! Fest. A Festival curated by Pioneers Go East Collective and presented in partnership with BAM.
Featured Artists: Angie Pittman + Kyle Marshall Choreography
Please note order of the evening: 1. Angie Pittman (50 minutes); 2. Kyle Marshall (20 minutes).
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 Treviño, 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. The Festival will take place at Judson Church.
This performance will take place at BAM Fisher Hillman Studios.
General Admission and Free tickets available. All are welcome!
Angie Pittman
Black Life Chord Changes
Angie Pittman’s reprised evening length solo performance (broken into scores for “day” and “night”) uses dance improvisation – skillfully pulling from, and synthesizing, folk traditions of liturgical dancing, Soul line dancing, Umfundalai, and post-modern improvisation – with layers of sung and spoken text, patient listening, and recorded sound, to open an experimental improvised movement portal. Blackly so. Through these visceral Black womanist traditions, Black Life Chord Changes slips in and out of deep listening, seeing, improvisation, and truth telling.
Choreographer/Performer: Angie Pittman
Composer: Cody Jensen
Lighting Designer: Tuce Yasak
Recording Artists: Tiffany Williams, Carla E. Jones, Aaron (A+) Wilson
Arrangement: Ther’Up.Y
Lyricist: Angie Pittman
Cape: Vincent Tiley
Words: Angie Pittman with contributions from A Sef
Dramaturgical Support: Iris McCloughan
Graphic Design: Katie Dean
Kyle Marshall Choreography
Joan (NYC Premiere)
Joan is a revival of a 2021 quartet set to Eastman’s bold score for ten cellos, “The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc”. The dance celebrates power over tyranny reinterpreting the story of Joan d’Arc, a female warrior who is called by God to lead her army to victory against an occupying oppressor, to remember the history of the Maroons, Seminoles and other communities of revolutionary people who fought for their freedom against slavery and colonial rule in the Americas. Flanking Joan are three soldiers who symbolize the spirits of her ancestors who guide and fight by her side. Originally choreographed as a duet for Oluwadamilare Ayorinde and Bria Bacon, Joan premiered and was commissioned by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and was performed with live music by BIPOC ensemble Castle of Our Skins in Boston, MA in October 2019. The work was then recommissioned and expanded into the current quartet for the New World Symphony in Miami in October 2021.
Choreography: Kyle Marshall
Performers: Justin Daniels, Kellye Smith, Sydney Worhty, and Taína Lyons
Music: Julius Eastman, “The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc”
Hair, Makeup, Costume Design: Edo Tastic (Visual Director)
Lighting Design: Serena Wong
Stage Manager: Emily Wong
Company Manager: Madalyn Rupprecht
DIRECTIONS:
BAM Fisher Hillman Studio
321 Ashland Place
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Subway:
2, 3, 4, 5 Trains to Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center
B, D, N, Q, R Trains to Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center
C Trains to Lafayette
G Trains to Fulton
Accessibility:
Our accessible entrance is by way of 321 Ashland Place, main entrance to BAM Fisher, which includes the Fisher Hillman Studio:
