Welcome to Judson Arts’ Spring 2024 Season!

All performances take place in Judson’s Meeting Room,
accessible at the 243 Thompson St. entrance,
with doors and free food at 6:30pm and art at 7:30pm.

Coming up:

4/17 Black Aesthetics - angel edwards - “tell me what your god look like”

4/23 & 24 Pioneers Go East: Crossroads

5/1 Black Aesthetics - Arien Wilkerson

5/8 METRA by The Hartfords

5/15 Black Aesthetics - crackhead Barney

5/22 - Chloe Marie

5/29 - Luc Vitková

6/5 Black Aesthetics - Amina Ibrahim & Reason Wade

6/12 NO EVENT

6/19 Black Aesthetics - Malcolmx Betts



+++ APRIL 17 +++

6:30pm Free food + Doors | 7:30pm Show

tell me what your god look like

by angel edwards

tell me what your god look like considers the infinite ways we socially and culturally construct god. As an artist at the end of this world, I am testing out a faith practice and troubling the concept and constructions of god. Through movement, visual projections, reggae and gospel, and writing we'll traverse this wobbly and beautiful multiverse. This performance is mask-required and will include some audience interaction. Come ready to whisper your testimonies or unknow god. all is welcome, all is welcome.

Artists:

angel edwards - director and choreographer

song aziza- performer sweet corey-bey - musical support

Arielle Julia Brown & Gabrielle Civil & Black Spatial Relics - Dramaturgical support

Costume Support by - Noel Puello

*This work was made with the creative and financial support of Black Spatial Relics. This work is in progress, and will have components of audience interaction.

Masks are required.

There will not be ASL interpretation.

ANGEL EDWARDS

angel edwards is a blackqueerandtrans first-generation Jamaican and Philly-rooted artist. They utilize the creative modalities of movement, poetics, filmmaking, and photography to witness and re/member blackness as it moves through daily life, love, intimacy, and transitions [*gendered and otherwise]. angel is being moved and led by the beautiful cartographies of black life.

angel is a Headlong Performance Institute Alumni. Vox Populi, the Center for Performance Research, The William Way Center, Icebox Project Space, and Black Arts Matter Alberta have featured their choreographic and visual works. The Leeway Foundation, Cannonball and Fringe Festival, Small But Mighty Arts, Mural Arts Philly, and Queer Art’s Eva Yaa Asantewaa Grant have supported their creative works. and most recently angel became a 2021 Pew Fellow. Angel is currently a MFA candidate at the University of the Arts for Dance.

SONG AZIZA TUCKER

song aziza tucker (she/her) is a project based movement and writing artist whose works have spiraled out of her love for Black femmes, music, and poetry. song is wrapped up in the erotic, cathartic, horrific and beautiful reflections of the ways Black femmes survive and pronounce imminent aliveness for themselves. She is a current MFA candidate in the School of Dance at University of the Arts where she also attained her BFA under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield. Alongside her research, song has had the pleasure of working as a performer and collaborator with Mark Caserta, Tommie-Waheed Evans, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Jordan Lloyd, Niall Jones, Doug Varone, Jesse Zaritt, and Abby Zbikowski among others. She is an active performing collaborator with Waheedworks and Sheer Spectacle under the direction of Lily Mello and Kali Petrizzo. Through all collaboration, song desires and commands a full pronouncement of a voluminous self impelled by black femme strategies in research and lived practice.

SHUGSLINE

Shugsline is the production moniker of Sweet Corey-Bey (they/them/theirs), a transgender musician, cultural organizer, and communications professional based in Southwest Philadelphia. Across mediums of content creation, design, sound, and filmmaking, Sweet’s work applies a storytelling lens to shift cultural narratives and build more liberatory worlds in the legacy of other Gender-Variant cultural workers.

ARIELLE BROWN

Arielle Julia Brown & Gabrielle Civil & Black Spatial Relics - Dramaturgical support

 
 

+++ APRIL 23 & 24 +++

6:30pm Free food + Doors | 7:30pm Show

CROSSROADS

A Radical Queer series of new works by emerging choreographers

by Pioneers Go East

RSVP here

(CROSSWINDS, CROSSCURRENTS, CROSSFIRES) Performance + dance + art + poetry + music + community. A curated series presented by Pioneers Go East Collective. Crossroads Series features artists who explore new genres and known performance and art-making modes to share their creative practices with other artists and their audiences. Each evening we witness different generations of artists dealing with actual, day-to-day, contemporary challenges to further discussion between artists and to activate a network of exchange and inclusion with social and artistic intervention.


Artist Lineup:

Tuesday, April 23 - Angie Pittman (choreographer/ performer) Orlando Hernández (choreographer/ performer) syd island (composer)

Wednesday, April 24 - Chanel Stone and Cemiyon Barber (choreographers/ performers) Owen Prum (choreographer/ performer)


Artist Bios:

Angie Pittman is a New York-based dancer-choreographer whose choreographic work uses dance, text, and sound inside of a Black Radical Tradition. Angie has had the pleasure of being able to create collaboratively with A Sef, Jasmine Hearn, Jonathan Gonzalez, Athena Kokoronis, and Anita Mullin. She holds a MFA in Dance and Choreography from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a graduate minor in African American Studies and is a certified Professional teacher of the Umfundalai technique. As a dancer, she has danced in work by Larissa Valez-Jackson, MBDance, Ralph Lemon, Tere O’Connor, Cynthia Oliver, Anna Sperber, Donna Uchizono Company, Jennifer Monson, Kim Brandt, Tess Dworman, Antonio Ramos, C Kemal Nance and many others.

Orlando Hernández is a tap dancer, choreographer, and writer based in NYC. He has presented his work at New York Live Arts, the Center for Performance Research, Dance Now at Joe's Pub, On the Boards, BAAD!, the Granoff Center at Brown University, and La Casa de Culture Ruth Hernández Torres. He is a member of the tap dance companies Music From the Sole and Subject:Matter. He recently had his first play produced, La Broa' (Broad Street), at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island.

Beyond the Black Box (BBB) is an arts and cultural organization dedicated to amplifying Black voices, fostering connections, and educating through immersive experiences. Our mission is to celebrate, honor, and uplift the Black dance community by creating supportive spaces for artists to thrive. Motivated by a desire to address the lack of representation and support we encountered in our own journeys, we are committed to promoting inclusiveness, fairness, and visibility in the dance world. BBB is a community centered, mission-driven project. Under the leadership of Chanel Stone, Cemiyon Barber, Cleo Reed, BBB has successfully produced four significant events and crafted six original choreographic works. As a team, they curate events and performances that provide space for raw exploration, vulnerability, meditation, audience immersion, reflection, and empowerment.

Owen Prum is a New York-based dancer, choreographer and co-founder of the artist-run dance and performance space PAGEANT. He has danced for Neil Greenberg, Yoshiko Chuma, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Elizabeth Dishman, among others. He has been nominated for a Bessie. He holds a BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.


Crossroads Radical Queer series by Pioneers Go East Collective

Curators Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte and Philip Treviño

Producer Jo Wiegandt


Judson Arts continues the long tradition of arts ministry at Judson Memorial Church, a spiritual force in Greenwich Village for over 120 years, devoted to creative freedom, social justice, and progressive faith. From the acclaimed Judson Poets’ Theater and Judson Dance Theater to today’s Judson Arts programming, Judson embraces the necessity of art in our lives and nurtures an uncensored environment for innovative expression, considering all artists potential modern-day prophets who show us where we’ve been, who we are, and what we can become.

Our programmer/artistic director, Reverend Micah Bucey (he/they), currently serves as Minister at Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village, a congregation committed to curiously seeking the intersections between expansive spirituality, radical social justice, and uncensored creative expression. A graduate of Fordham University and Union Theological Seminary, Micah is also a regular film reviewer for Spirituality & Practice and a member of Interfilm, the international interchurch film organisation, twice serving as a member of the Ecumenical Jury for the Berlin International Film Festival. Micah believes that artists have the potential to serve as society’s modern-day prophets, showing us where we’ve been, who we are, and what we can become. Find out more at micahbucey.com.