PRAISE!

Praise! Project is an original dance theater performance that opens the door into a conversation around sacred bodies, queerness, and coming into ourselves. As the performers crisscross memories and fantasies of divine encounters, the piece asks how we reconcile past experiences to make new meaning for the present. 

Praise! is presented by Wender Collective and VTDance and is co-created and performed by Vincent E. Thomas and Gabriel Thom Pasculli with Desiré Graham and Malia’Kekia Nicolini. This project was created with the support of NPN Creation Fund, co-commissioned by Bethany Arts Community, Sandglass Theater, and The Baltimore Theater Project. 

 
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PROJECT HISTORY

The lead artists have been developing this work over a series of workshops between 2019 and 2026. The first week-long workshop happened at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH in 2019, and four workshops took place at Art Omi in upstate NY between 2021 and 2025. A work-in-progress excerpt was shared in April of 2023 at Baltimore Theater Project as part of VTDance’s 20th Anniversary Concert. In 2024 The project had a two week residency at Bethany Arts Community in Ossining NY and premiered at Bethany Arts and Baltimore Theater Project in March 2025.

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