BOMB Magazine has published Amit Noy's conversation with the five artist-founders of Pageant — Sharleen Chidiac, Lili Dekker, Jade Manns, Owen Prum and Alexa West — a Brooklyn performance space that has become a fixture of the city's underground dance scene. The interview centers on the group's 2026 Kravis Studio residency at the Museum of Modern Art, which had wrapped just eighteen days before the conversation took place in the founders' Ridgewood apartment. At MoMA, Pageant staged a daylong marathon in which 25 artists were each given exactly ten minutes, with no one person's work prioritized. Owen Prum described the format as flattening hierarchy across a wide range of experience — some participants had been making work for a decade, others for six months. The five founders reflect on their lineage in downtown dance and postmodernism, naming Yvonne Rainer as an unavoidable influence while insisting their practice draws on multiple disciplines rather than a single tradition. Much of the conversation turns on how Pageant operates. The space runs bimonthly performances, weekly yoga classes and open rehearsal time from a third-floor room above a beauty supply store and a nail salon in Brooklyn. It is funded almost entirely by ticket sales — $10 per show — with the founders themselves working the door, lights and sound. They have deliberately stripped away curatorial statements, program notes and grant-style framing, a choice Jade Manns ties to fatigue with applications that demand artists justify their work against predetermined criteria. The piece closes with Pageant's fall season, which continues through November 20 with performances by Gillian Walsh (October 15–16), Clara Kim (October 22–23), Matt Shalzi and Millie Knapp (November 5–6), and Blaze Ferrer (November 19–20). Desire, one founder says, is the engine of the whole operation: the artists and audiences want to be doing this together, and that choice pays the rent.