Out-FRONT! Fest. 2026 Presenting: Jo Warren; Owen Prum

Out-FRONT! Fest. A Festival curated by Pioneers Go East Collective and presented in partnership with Judson Church.

The Out-FRONT! Festival is curated by Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, Remi Harris Philip Treviño, 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 Church. General Admission and Free tickets available. All are welcome!

Jo Warren presents: MODEL HOME (World Premiere)

MODEL HOME is a group dance that attempts to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar by highlighting and then subverting cultural archetypes and cliches. Working with imagery of the family home and suburbia, this work seeks to dis-orient the viewer in relation to the mythology of American life. Through a combination of set material, improvisational scores, relational practice, vocalizing, harmonizing and channeling emergent characters, the performers take the well-trodden paths of gendered and archetypal images and move them into unexpected territory.

Direction: Jo Warren

Choreography: in collaboration with the performers

Performance: Meg Herzfeld, Paris Cullen, Maddie Hopfield and Sofia Franklin

Music: Ryan Gamblin

Costume Design: Kate Wiliams

Owen Prum presents: Extremely Chemical (World Premiere)

Three dancers enter the space, arriving at a still formation, dots on a grid. They appear as pedestrians, a group indiscernible as strangers or peers. They stand on the precipice between crowd and performer. A singular bass boom rings out, like a crash from a club down the street. Gradually they begin to shift, walk, patter in loose pathways, carving lines and right angles.

Choreography, Direction, by: Owen Prum

Music: Ella Heron

Design: Richard McDonough

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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.

Photo Credit: Elyse Mertz and Owen Prum