Brooklyn's Pageant Dance Collective Secures MoMA Residency
Pageant, a four-year-old artist-run performance space in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, has secured a studio residency at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Organized by MoMA’s Martha Joseph and Luiza Repsold França, the initiative brings the collective’s DIY, experimental dance ethos into a major institutional setting. The residency highlights Pageant’s role as a hub for risky, iterative artistic exploration, where failure is viewed as a necessary part of the creative process. While the move raises concerns about institutional absorption, it also validates the space’s impact on contemporary dance.