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SUMMARY:Praise! Project - March 22
DESCRIPTION:Praise! Project\nFriday\, March 22 @ 7PM\nPraise! Project is an original dance theater performance that opens the door into a conversation around sacred bodies\, queerness\, and coming in-to 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. \nAt times during the performance\, the audience will be welcomed into call and response movement\, song\, and facilitated dialogue. In this way Praise! is co-created\, immersive\, and always evolving. \nPraise! 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. \nThis production is recommended for ages 15 and up. \n \nPERFORMANCE DATES\nFriday\, March 21 at 7PM\nSaturday\, March 22 at 7PM – You’re on this page now! \nLOCATION\nBethany Arts Community\n40 Somerstown Road\, Ossining\, NY 10562 \nTICKETS\n$25 General Admission / $20 Student/Senior\nTicket sales are final\, non-refundable\, and non-transferable. Please ensure you are purchasing tickets for the correct date. \nABOUT THE PERFORMERS\nVincent E Thomas is a Black gay man\, a professional dancer\, and a Professor of Dance at Towson University (MD). Vincent’s dance company\, VTDance\, recently celebrated its 22nd Anniversary in Baltimore. Vincent grew up in Edgefield\, SC where he sang joyfully (and dutifully) in the choir at his Southern Baptist Church\, and yet he felt as though he had to spend much of his adult life washing the church from his soul. \nGabriel Thom Pasculli is a queer\, white-bodied\, second-generation Italian-Irish-American\, who has been working in Chicago and New England as an ensemble theater-maker and is now a Lecturer of Directing and Performance at Union College (NY). Gabriel Thom grew up in the Catholic Church in New Jersey and has spent his adult life seeking the mystical experience he failed to find in the religion of his childhood. \nBoth artists are returning to a time they thought they had left behind. They are returning to the tender questions they developed as young people\, torn between their inner desires and the confounding morality of the communities in which they were raised. With great curiosity\, intimacy\, risk and availability\, Praise! is asking how we reconcile those past experiences and conflicted parts of our younger selves to make new meaning in the present. \nPraise! Project events are co-created\, curated\, and co-facilitated by Desiré Graham\, a New Haven-based artist working in original theatre and musical performance\, and Malia’Kekia Nicolini\, a Massachuesettes-based dancer\, actress\, choreographer\, artistic director\, facilitator\, and arts educator. \nPROJECT HISTORY\nThe lead artists have been developing this work over a series of workshops between 2019 and 2025. 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 will premiere at Bethany Arts Community in March 2025.
URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/praiseproject0322/
LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States
CATEGORIES:2025 Residencies,Dance,Performance,Play,Praise!,Program,Residencies,Storytelling,Theater,Theater Makers
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SUMMARY:Praise! Project - March 21
DESCRIPTION:Praise! Project\nFriday\, March 21 @ 7PM\nPraise! Project is an original dance theater performance that opens the door into a conversation around sacred bodies\, queerness\, and coming in-to 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. \nAt times during the performance\, the audience will be welcomed into call and response movement\, song\, and facilitated dialogue. In this way Praise! is co-created\, immersive\, and always evolving. \nPraise! 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. \nThis production is recommended for ages 15 and up. \n \nPERFORMANCE DATES\nFriday\, March 21 at 7PM – You’re on this page now!\nSaturday\, March 22 at 7PM \nLOCATION\nBethany Arts Community\n40 Somerstown Road\, Ossining\, NY 10562 \nTICKETS\n$25 General Admission / $20 Student/Senior\nTicket sales are final\, non-refundable\, and non-transferable. Please ensure you are purchasing tickets for the correct date. \nABOUT THE PERFORMERS\nVincent E Thomas is a Black gay man\, a professional dancer\, and a Professor of Dance at Towson University (MD). Vincent’s dance company\, VTDance\, recently celebrated its 22nd Anniversary in Baltimore. Vincent grew up in Edgefield\, SC where he sang joyfully (and dutifully) in the choir at his Southern Baptist Church\, and yet he felt as though he had to spend much of his adult life washing the church from his soul. \nGabriel Thom Pasculli is a queer\, white-bodied\, second-generation Italian-Irish-American\, who has been working in Chicago and New England as an ensemble theater-maker and is now a Lecturer of Directing and Performance at Union College (NY). Gabriel Thom grew up in the Catholic Church in New Jersey and has spent his adult life seeking the mystical experience he failed to find in the religion of his childhood. \nBoth artists are returning to a time they thought they had left behind. They are returning to the tender questions they developed as young people\, torn between their inner desires and the confounding morality of the communities in which they were raised. With great curiosity\, intimacy\, risk and availability\, Praise! is asking how we reconcile those past experiences and conflicted parts of our younger selves to make new meaning in the present. \nPraise! Project events are co-created\, curated\, and co-facilitated by Desiré Graham\, a New Haven-based artist working in original theatre and musical performance\, and Malia’Kekia Nicolini\, a Massachuesettes-based dancer\, actress\, choreographer\, artistic director\, facilitator\, and arts educator. \nPROJECT HISTORY\nThe lead artists have been developing this work over a series of workshops between 2019 and 2025. 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 will premiere at Bethany Arts Community in March 2025.
URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/praiseproject0321/
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SUMMARY:Sacred Bodies Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Sacred Bodies Workshop\nDate & Time: Tuesday\, March 18\, 2025 6-8PM\nLocation: Grace Episcopal Church\, Trinity Campus – 7 S. Highland Ave\, Ossining\, NY 10562\nFree! Registration encouraged.  \n \nJoin the artists of Praise! Project for a creative storytelling workshop and community gathering.   \nWhat is the workshop?\nSacred Bodies is a storytelling workshop meant to move us\, inspire us\, and bring us into meaningful dialogue with each other. If you have questions around these themes\, want to gather in community\, and/or want to explore your creative self\, this workshop is right for you.  \nWhat themes?\nThe performers of Praise! Project are asking themselves how they can encourage a full-hearted acceptance of their whole selves\, and they invite you on the journey with them. Through the use of movement\, music\, memory\, and imagination\, a weave emerges between a sense of acceptance with a sense of the sacred.   \nThe workshop will explore the following themes:  \n\nHealing from past experiences \nComing into our full selves \nQuestioning what we once thought was true \nThe feeling of being under attack \nExpanding family and creating community \n\nWhat is Praise! Project?\nPraise! Project is an original dance theater performance that explores themes of sacred bodies\, queerness\, and coming in-to ourselves. Prior to the premiere of Praise! March 21-22\, the artists of Praise! Project will host a community workshop in partnership with Grace Episcopal Church of Ossining to explore facilitated dialogue and collective storytelling around themes from the performance.  \n Join us for the Premiere Praise! Project – Click here to purchase tickets!
URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/sacredbodies2025/
LOCATION:Grace Episcopal Church\, 7 S Highland Ave\, Ossining\, 10562\, United States
CATEGORIES:2025 Residencies,Dance,Music,Praise!,Program,Storytelling,Theater,Theater Makers,Visual Art,Workshop,Workshops
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