Distorting and repeating shared forms, however horrific or ecstatic, in the pursuit of something that feels like transformation or preservation or simply just aliveness. VESSELS is a dance of desperate meanings unraveling unto some queer itch that feels like home.

Commissioned & Presented by: Out-FRONT! Festival 2025 by Pioneers Go East Collective
Produced by: Pioneers Go East Collective in partnership with BAM and Judson Church
Performers: Hollis Bartlett and Nattie Trogdon
Sound by: Michael Wall
Lighting Design: Philip Treviño
Photography: Steven Pisano

PERFORMANCE HISTORY
Out-FRONT! Fest. (PREMIERE) / Pioneers Go East Collective / Judson Church NY, NY January 7 + 10, 2025
The Dance Deck / The Croft / Horton Bay, MI September 25, 2024


This work was developed in part through residences at The Croft, Kestrels and The Floor, produced and presented as part of the Out-FRONT! Festival 2025 by Pioneers Go East Collective in partnership with BAM and Judson Church. Pioneers Go East Collective's programs in 2024/25 are made possible with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts; The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; New York City Council's discretionary funding provided by council member Carlina Rivera and 2nd District; SU-CASA (DCLA); The Howard Gilman Foundation; The Jerome Foundation; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; Harkness Foundation for Dance; The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation; and the Mosaic Network and Fund in The New York Community Trust.