Creative Team: Co-Created and performed by Vincent E Thomas of VTDance and Gabriel Thom Pasculli in collaboration with Desiré Graham and Malia’Kekia Nicolini. Guest consultant- Dwayne Hess.
Created with the support of NPN Creation Fund, co-commissioned by Bethany Arts Community, Sandglass Theater, and The Baltimore Theater Project.
Praise! Project is an immersive event exploring self and spirit through a child’s experience of Church. Moments of dance, song, testimony and confession are interwoven through collective dialogue and story sharing. Praise! opens the door into a conversation around body, queerness, and sacred celebration in a way that takes nothing for granted. While the two performers crisscross memories and fantasies of divine encounters, the piece asks how we reconcile past experiences to make new meaning for the present. Developed at Dartmouth College’s VoxLab and at Art Omi in Ghent, New York, an excerpt of Praise! was featured as part of VTDance’s 20th Anniversary Concert at The Baltimore Theater Project in April 2023.
Additional video clips may be found at: YouTube: vtdanceorg http://www.youtube.com/user/vtdanceorg
Art Omi Ghent, NY
Perelman Arts Center New York, NY
Choreographic Residency Harrisonburg, VA
Bethany Arts Community Ossining, NY
Baltimore Theatre Project Baltimore, MD