CALLING: a dance with faith
Premiere: La Mama Moves! Dance Festival
May 23-24, 2019
Director/Creator: Jesca Prudencio
Co and Stage Manager: Kristina Varshavskaya
Lighting Design: Cecilia R Durbin
Sound Design: Fan Zhang
Calling: a dance with faith is a documentary dance theater piece exploring the lives of two Muslim women as they wrestle with their call to dance and their call to faith. Their religious and artistic journeys intersect, as both Muslims and dancers, in this rich and perceptive performance of movement and storytelling. Expanding upon Ping Chong + Company’s traditional interview-based theater process of talking with local individuals, who are not performers, about questions of culture, identity and belonging.
“There’s nothing else like it.”
– An Interview with the Creative Team of Calling: a dance with faith
