Pioneers Go East Collective
2027 Out-FRONT! Festival
January 8-16, 2027 at Danspace Project and Judson Church

Pioneers Go East Collective, an artist-led incubator for thought-provoking art, announces the lineup for the fifth edition of the Out-FRONT! Festival. The 2027 festival features the work of nine interdisciplinary movement-based artists and collectives exploring bold new performance modes for a lively exchange of art and culture. The festival runs Friday, January 8 to Saturday, January 16, 2027, and will be presented at Danspace Project and Judson Church. Performance times vary. The 2027 festival is supported by JanArtsNYC.

The 2027 Out-FRONT! Festival features works by Maritea Dæhlin, Darvejon A. Jones, Tristan Koepke | Big Boy Dance, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Anichi Moon (Ching-I Chang), Same As Sister / Hilary Brown-Istrefi and Briana Brown-Tipley, Alex Romania + Stacy Lynn Smith, slowdanger, and Pioneers Go East Collective in collaboration with Symara Sarai and syd island.

Pioneers Go East Collective’s producing and curatorial team includes founder and artistic director Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, co-founder Philip Treviño, and curator Remi Harris.

“Out-FRONT! Fest shapes a radical platform for emerging artists,” says Remi Harris. “The festival embraces friction, contradictions, and vulnerability as entry points to both new aesthetic explorations and lively discourses. Now in its fifth year, the festival premieres new work developed in part inside Pioneers Go East Collective’s creative incubator, an artist-driven hub where bold ideas get room to take shape. Presented during the annual APAP conference in NYC, the festival’s curated program of local and international multidisciplinary makers launches some of the city’s most innovative works and audacious collaborations. This approach is expressive of our commitment to confronting mainstream assumptions of what stories get to be told and by whom. Be Radical. Be Free. Be Pioneers.”