IMPROV SPACES PRESENTS: SPRING 2026 SEASON!

This spring we will be a part of the Global Performance + Sound Lab activities in Newark and Upstate New York.
We will be kicking off the GPS* activities with a special performance collaboration
with Pitney Meadows Meadows Community Farm and Arts Letters & Numbers
with artist in resident Jill Sigman on June 6th!

Pitney Farms in collaboration with Improv Spaces and Arts Numbers & Letters presents

Go Between
A Ritual for Listening to the Land

Saturday, June 6, 5pm performance
with opening prelude at 4pm
Open to the public
Location Pitney Farms, 223 West Ave, Saratoga Springs, NY


JILL SIFAH SIGMAN

What does the soil remember? In Go Between, Sigman creates visually powerful scrolls by dancing with soils significant to climate issues, colonial histories, and local narratives. This physical process leaves marks on large-scale papers that are simultaneously documentation of Sigman’s performance and mapmaking of the memory of the site. Sigman will create a new series of scrolls with soil from Pitney Meadows and bring her environmental-performative practice to a collective listening ritual for the land at the farm.

Audience members are invited to come early to connect with the land and enter the performance through an improvisatory prelude of music and sound. 

Sigman is artist-in-resident at Pitney Farms and in collaboration with Improv Spaces and Arts Letters & Numbers with support by Saratoga Arts Community Regrant, Price Institute, Mellon Foundation, and the Rutgers University-Newark 2026 Chancellor’s Seed Grant and will be commencing the week of activities of the Global Performance + Sound Lab with her performance Go Between at Pitney Farms.

Artist Bios

Jill Sifah Sigman is a queer choreographer, performing artist, visual artist, educator, and activist whose polyvalent work blends dance, visual art, ecology, and philosophy. She has a holistic vision of choreography that integrates human bodies, more than human neighbors like plants and soil, and objects that people throw away in ways that catalyze connection and care. She is the author of Ten Huts, published by Wesleyan University Press, about choreographing structures out of garbage in different parts of the world. Sigman founded jill sigman/thinkdance in 1998 to raise pressing social issues through the body. In 2016 she founded Body Politic, a program of workshops and laboratories collaborating with activists in environmental, immigration and racial justice. In 2022 she launched the Social Justice Movement Lab for artist-activists to center embodiment in social change work. Sigman has been the first Community Action Artist in Residence at Gibney Dance, a Distinguished Guest Artist at the University of San Francisco Performing Arts & Social Justice program, a Rauschenberg Residency artist, a Choreographic Fellow at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, a Movement Research Artist in Residence, and a 2025 Bessies nominee. She is a Creative Campus Fellow at Wesleyan University and a member of the Global Performance + Sound Lab. Sigman was born and raised on occupied Canarsee land in Brooklyn, New York.
Photo by Jan Mun.

Collaborating musicians:

Angus McCullough is a trans-disciplinary maker who works with objects, spaces, sounds, words, and systems. They are interested in the lives of objects, scales of time, and the vibratory nature of existence. Born and raised in New York City, they studied philosophy, music and architecture in academic and self-created learning situations. They have designed and shaped public spaces, private homes, bathing sanctuaries, soundscapes, vehicles, books, and forest ponds. www.angusm.cc

Dominique Vuvan is a multi-genre multi-instrumentalist based in the Capital Region. She plays in indie pop band Nice Hockey and space-jazz ensemble Sun Dogs, and lends helping hands to Adam Tinkle and Eric Ayotte when needed.

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Thanks for attending the 2025 Improv Spaces Music Festival!

The 2025 IMPROV SPACES MUSIC FESTIVAL
took place on June 7th, 2025 —
at the Round Lake Auditorium

FESTIVAL PROGRAM

We are so happy to have been able to host more than 30 musicians as a part of the 2025 Improv Spaces Music Festival 
that took place at the Round Lake Auditorium on Saturday, June 7th, 2025 
with festival highlights that featured new work from the Human Rites Trio with renown musicians 
Jason Kao Hwang (composer, violin, viola), Andrew Drury (drum set), Ken Filiano (string bass);
the premiere of Sonic Explorations in Troy, an incubator project with the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
with the Rock City Falls Trio and Manuel J. Perez III; and the debut of the Improv Spaces Ensemble;
along with an impressive roster of additional talented improvisers
hailing from the Capital Region and beyond!

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It was great to see you at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall on Febrary 25th for this special performance and discussion for
SONIC EXPLORATIONS IN TROY!

Photos by Kylie Spinelli Photography

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