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Performances of “Tapestries” begin next week! Take a look inside the rehearsal process as director and choreographer Suzzanne Ponomarenko talks more about the making of this world premiere commissioned by Baryshnikov Arts.

Tickets available at the link in our bio!

Out-FRONT! Fest. ‘26 | January 3-11, 2026 

A Festival curated by @pioneersgoeast and presented in partnership with Judson Church @judsonchurchnyc

🌸Suzzanne Ponomarenko @_spdance Presents: Selections from: Tapestries (World Premiere) 🌸

📍JANUARY 3 + 5 at 7pm | Judson Church Split Bill w/ Dominica Greene @draminica

🌸Featuring:
Pilar-Mellon Reyes | pilarmellonreyes
Kate Antionette Reyes | @kate.antoinette
Paige Barnett Kulbeth | @pbkmedia
Jay Beardsley | @j_b7777777
Piper Dye | @miss.longstocking
Lauren Marie Jaeger | @lauren_marie_jaeger
Larissa Asebedo | @llifeonlars

Music composed by Katie James Rushin | @not_dragging
Lighting by S.C. Lucier | @luci_lawless
Costumes by David Quinn | @quinndustry
Illustrations by Emmy Castellani | @emmycastellani

🌸Selections From: Tapestries is a Dance-Theater piece guided by the curious narrative of The Unicorn Tapestries or Hunt of the Unicorn (1495-1505) housed at The Met Cloisters, reimagined through the queering out of Ukrainian folklore and tales. This performance consists of six short vignettes developed through a rigorous and quirky movement vocabulary abstracted from Ukrainian folk dance, ballet, American modern dance, and contemporary dance. It serves as an embodied archive, an ever-evolving Сморгасбург of the subjective history of queer Ukrainian culture.

📍Judson Church, entrance at 243 Thompson Street, NYC 10012

🎟️ Tickets on sale NOW! 🔗 LINK IN BIO [Free + Donation + Sliding Scale]

Curated by @pioneersgoeast in partnership with @judsonchurchnyc

🌸Out-FRONT! Fest. is a Radical Queer Art + Dance festival championing LGBTQ+ and Feminist artists for a lively exchange of art and culture. Curated & produced by Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, Remi Harris, Joyce Isabelle, and Philip Treviño.

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“I’m working on a piece called ‘Tapestries.’ [It’s] centered around the narrative of the ‘Hunt of the Unicorn’ tapestries and I’ve reimagined each tapestry through different types of Ukrainian folklore, queered out.” —Suzzanne Ponomarenko, Spring 2025 Residency Artist

🎥: @jdisc.mov

Thank you to everyone who joined us for "Tapestries!"

Be sure to check out the rest of our spring season at the link in our bio.

📸: @photo_by_baranova

Thank you to everyone who joined us for "Tapestries!"

Be sure to check out the rest of our spring season at the link in our bio.

📸: @photo_by_baranova

Happy opening night to everyone involved in the world premiere of "Tapestries!"

Tickets are still available for tomorrow night's performance. Purchase tickets at the link in our bio.

📸: @photo_by_baranova

Happy opening night to everyone involved in the world premiere of "Tapestries!"

Tickets are still available for tomorrow night's performance. Purchase tickets at the link in our bio.

📸: @photo_by_baranova

Children play. The Drums sound. The Unicorn Wails. And what then?
Tapestries opens tonight - 7pm at @baryshnikovartscenter - come hear my compositions set to @_spdance choreography with these absolutely magnificent dancers. Run time approx 1 hour.

Children play. The Drums sound. The Unicorn Wails. And what then?
Tapestries opens tonight - 7pm at @baryshnikovartscenter - come hear my compositions set to @_spdance choreography with these absolutely magnificent dancers. Run time approx 1 hour.

Children play. The Drums sound. The Unicorn Wails. And what then?
Tapestries opens tonight - 7pm at @baryshnikovartscenter - come hear my compositions set to @_spdance choreography with these absolutely magnificent dancers. Run time approx 1 hour.

Children play. The Drums sound. The Unicorn Wails. And what then?
Tapestries opens tonight - 7pm at @baryshnikovartscenter - come hear my compositions set to @_spdance choreography with these absolutely magnificent dancers. Run time approx 1 hour.

Join us for the world premiere of “Tapestries” this week! Watch director and choreographer Suzzanne Ponomarenko talk about the project’s collaborators and creative influences.

Get tickets at the link in our bio. Best availability: Friday, April 24!

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The world premiere of “Tapestries” is next month! In this clip, director and choreographer Suzzanne Ponomarenko discusses developing the piece during a Spring 2025 Baryshnikov Arts Residency.

Get your tickets now at the link in our bio!

“Tapestries” is a dance-theatre piece directed and choreographed by Suzzanne Ponomarenko told through the curious narrative of the “Unicorn Tapestries” (1495—1505) and a queer reimagining of Ukrainian folklore.

Join us in April for this world premiere commissioned by Baryshnikov Arts. Get your tickets at the link in our bio!

📸: @dlopezstudio

“Tapestries” is a dance-theatre piece directed and choreographed by Suzzanne Ponomarenko told through the curious narrative of the “Unicorn Tapestries” (1495—1505) and a queer reimagining of Ukrainian folklore.

Join us in April for this world premiere commissioned by Baryshnikov Arts. Get your tickets at the link in our bio!

📸: @dlopezstudio

@pioneersgoeast OUT FRONT Festival coverage! Brendan McCall on Suzanne Ponomarenko’s TAPESTRIES and Dominica Greene’s OPENINGS and @liana.zhenai on JPM Leven’s BIRDS OF ILL OMEN. @_spdance @draminica @corentinjpm @judsonchurchnyc

Photos by @steven_pisano

“With the entrance of dancer Pilar Mellon-Reyes, the subsequent vignettes of Tapestries grow increasingly complex in terms of form, movement quality, and spatial composition, and Ponomarenko´s choreography will gain more and more emotional depth. Flashes of movement onstage echo the original tapestries–the hunt, the betrayal of the unicorn by a maiden before its capture, and so on. Perhaps Ponomarenko, in this physical interpretation, is inviting us to consider the unicorn as a metaphor for queer identity: rare, utterly beautiful, and in danger?”-Brendan McCall

“Although I would call Leven’s work nothing less than a brilliant and sensual approach to a pressing systemic issue, I left the theater with two nagging questions. What does it mean for a white, European body to perform this work in the United States? What is the value of tender approaches to violence that emanates from capitalist imperatives, what Slavoj Žižek might call “objective violence.”-Liana Zhen-ai

@pioneersgoeast OUT FRONT Festival coverage! Brendan McCall on Suzanne Ponomarenko’s TAPESTRIES and Dominica Greene’s OPENINGS and @liana.zhenai on JPM Leven’s BIRDS OF ILL OMEN. @_spdance @draminica @corentinjpm @judsonchurchnyc

Photos by @steven_pisano

“With the entrance of dancer Pilar Mellon-Reyes, the subsequent vignettes of Tapestries grow increasingly complex in terms of form, movement quality, and spatial composition, and Ponomarenko´s choreography will gain more and more emotional depth. Flashes of movement onstage echo the original tapestries–the hunt, the betrayal of the unicorn by a maiden before its capture, and so on. Perhaps Ponomarenko, in this physical interpretation, is inviting us to consider the unicorn as a metaphor for queer identity: rare, utterly beautiful, and in danger?”-Brendan McCall

“Although I would call Leven’s work nothing less than a brilliant and sensual approach to a pressing systemic issue, I left the theater with two nagging questions. What does it mean for a white, European body to perform this work in the United States? What is the value of tender approaches to violence that emanates from capitalist imperatives, what Slavoj Žižek might call “objective violence.”-Liana Zhen-ai

@pioneersgoeast OUT FRONT Festival coverage! Brendan McCall on Suzanne Ponomarenko’s TAPESTRIES and Dominica Greene’s OPENINGS and @liana.zhenai on JPM Leven’s BIRDS OF ILL OMEN. @_spdance @draminica @corentinjpm @judsonchurchnyc

Photos by @steven_pisano

“With the entrance of dancer Pilar Mellon-Reyes, the subsequent vignettes of Tapestries grow increasingly complex in terms of form, movement quality, and spatial composition, and Ponomarenko´s choreography will gain more and more emotional depth. Flashes of movement onstage echo the original tapestries–the hunt, the betrayal of the unicorn by a maiden before its capture, and so on. Perhaps Ponomarenko, in this physical interpretation, is inviting us to consider the unicorn as a metaphor for queer identity: rare, utterly beautiful, and in danger?”-Brendan McCall

“Although I would call Leven’s work nothing less than a brilliant and sensual approach to a pressing systemic issue, I left the theater with two nagging questions. What does it mean for a white, European body to perform this work in the United States? What is the value of tender approaches to violence that emanates from capitalist imperatives, what Slavoj Žižek might call “objective violence.”-Liana Zhen-ai

@pioneersgoeast OUT FRONT Festival coverage! Brendan McCall on Suzanne Ponomarenko’s TAPESTRIES and Dominica Greene’s OPENINGS and @liana.zhenai on JPM Leven’s BIRDS OF ILL OMEN. @_spdance @draminica @corentinjpm @judsonchurchnyc

Photos by @steven_pisano

“With the entrance of dancer Pilar Mellon-Reyes, the subsequent vignettes of Tapestries grow increasingly complex in terms of form, movement quality, and spatial composition, and Ponomarenko´s choreography will gain more and more emotional depth. Flashes of movement onstage echo the original tapestries–the hunt, the betrayal of the unicorn by a maiden before its capture, and so on. Perhaps Ponomarenko, in this physical interpretation, is inviting us to consider the unicorn as a metaphor for queer identity: rare, utterly beautiful, and in danger?”-Brendan McCall

“Although I would call Leven’s work nothing less than a brilliant and sensual approach to a pressing systemic issue, I left the theater with two nagging questions. What does it mean for a white, European body to perform this work in the United States? What is the value of tender approaches to violence that emanates from capitalist imperatives, what Slavoj Žižek might call “objective violence.”-Liana Zhen-ai

@pioneersgoeast OUT FRONT Festival coverage! Brendan McCall on Suzanne Ponomarenko’s TAPESTRIES and Dominica Greene’s OPENINGS and @liana.zhenai on JPM Leven’s BIRDS OF ILL OMEN. @_spdance @draminica @corentinjpm @judsonchurchnyc

Photos by @steven_pisano

“With the entrance of dancer Pilar Mellon-Reyes, the subsequent vignettes of Tapestries grow increasingly complex in terms of form, movement quality, and spatial composition, and Ponomarenko´s choreography will gain more and more emotional depth. Flashes of movement onstage echo the original tapestries–the hunt, the betrayal of the unicorn by a maiden before its capture, and so on. Perhaps Ponomarenko, in this physical interpretation, is inviting us to consider the unicorn as a metaphor for queer identity: rare, utterly beautiful, and in danger?”-Brendan McCall

“Although I would call Leven’s work nothing less than a brilliant and sensual approach to a pressing systemic issue, I left the theater with two nagging questions. What does it mean for a white, European body to perform this work in the United States? What is the value of tender approaches to violence that emanates from capitalist imperatives, what Slavoj Žižek might call “objective violence.”-Liana Zhen-ai

And like a fever dream, Out-FRONT! Fest. 2026, curated by Pioneer Go East Collective…is over!! What an honor to stage this work in the historic Judson Memorial Church. A place that has welcomed queers for decades. Thank you to all who came to support the work of @draminica and myself- we couldn’t have done this without you. It means so much. And thank you to my fantastic team of dancers and collaborators; I am continually humbled by you. More dance to come + much love! 🦄🌈

And like a fever dream, Out-FRONT! Fest. 2026, curated by Pioneer Go East Collective…is over!! What an honor to stage this work in the historic Judson Memorial Church. A place that has welcomed queers for decades. Thank you to all who came to support the work of @draminica and myself- we couldn’t have done this without you. It means so much. And thank you to my fantastic team of dancers and collaborators; I am continually humbled by you. More dance to come + much love! 🦄🌈

And like a fever dream, Out-FRONT! Fest. 2026, curated by Pioneer Go East Collective…is over!! What an honor to stage this work in the historic Judson Memorial Church. A place that has welcomed queers for decades. Thank you to all who came to support the work of @draminica and myself- we couldn’t have done this without you. It means so much. And thank you to my fantastic team of dancers and collaborators; I am continually humbled by you. More dance to come + much love! 🦄🌈

And like a fever dream, Out-FRONT! Fest. 2026, curated by Pioneer Go East Collective…is over!! What an honor to stage this work in the historic Judson Memorial Church. A place that has welcomed queers for decades. Thank you to all who came to support the work of @draminica and myself- we couldn’t have done this without you. It means so much. And thank you to my fantastic team of dancers and collaborators; I am continually humbled by you. More dance to come + much love! 🦄🌈

And like a fever dream, Out-FRONT! Fest. 2026, curated by Pioneer Go East Collective…is over!! What an honor to stage this work in the historic Judson Memorial Church. A place that has welcomed queers for decades. Thank you to all who came to support the work of @draminica and myself- we couldn’t have done this without you. It means so much. And thank you to my fantastic team of dancers and collaborators; I am continually humbled by you. More dance to come + much love! 🦄🌈

And like a fever dream, Out-FRONT! Fest. 2026, curated by Pioneer Go East Collective…is over!! What an honor to stage this work in the historic Judson Memorial Church. A place that has welcomed queers for decades. Thank you to all who came to support the work of @draminica and myself- we couldn’t have done this without you. It means so much. And thank you to my fantastic team of dancers and collaborators; I am continually humbled by you. More dance to come + much love! 🦄🌈

And like a fever dream, Out-FRONT! Fest. 2026, curated by Pioneer Go East Collective…is over!! What an honor to stage this work in the historic Judson Memorial Church. A place that has welcomed queers for decades. Thank you to all who came to support the work of @draminica and myself- we couldn’t have done this without you. It means so much. And thank you to my fantastic team of dancers and collaborators; I am continually humbled by you. More dance to come + much love! 🦄🌈

And like a fever dream, Out-FRONT! Fest. 2026, curated by Pioneer Go East Collective…is over!! What an honor to stage this work in the historic Judson Memorial Church. A place that has welcomed queers for decades. Thank you to all who came to support the work of @draminica and myself- we couldn’t have done this without you. It means so much. And thank you to my fantastic team of dancers and collaborators; I am continually humbled by you. More dance to come + much love! 🦄🌈

And like a fever dream, Out-FRONT! Fest. 2026, curated by Pioneer Go East Collective…is over!! What an honor to stage this work in the historic Judson Memorial Church. A place that has welcomed queers for decades. Thank you to all who came to support the work of @draminica and myself- we couldn’t have done this without you. It means so much. And thank you to my fantastic team of dancers and collaborators; I am continually humbled by you. More dance to come + much love! 🦄🌈

And like a fever dream, Out-FRONT! Fest. 2026, curated by Pioneer Go East Collective…is over!! What an honor to stage this work in the historic Judson Memorial Church. A place that has welcomed queers for decades. Thank you to all who came to support the work of @draminica and myself- we couldn’t have done this without you. It means so much. And thank you to my fantastic team of dancers and collaborators; I am continually humbled by you. More dance to come + much love! 🦄🌈

And like a fever dream, Out-FRONT! Fest. 2026, curated by Pioneer Go East Collective…is over!! What an honor to stage this work in the historic Judson Memorial Church. A place that has welcomed queers for decades. Thank you to all who came to support the work of @draminica and myself- we couldn’t have done this without you. It means so much. And thank you to my fantastic team of dancers and collaborators; I am continually humbled by you. More dance to come + much love! 🦄🌈