dance in three prayers

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Solo Work
-> dance in three prayers
-> All-Fours
-> Descent

Collaborative Work
-> Relay
-> Sketchbook
→ Emma Lanier + Cauveri Suresh
→ Cauveri Suresh and Ky Frances
→ Samuels/Suresh

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→ Contact

Upcoming 2026
Sketchbook, Joe Goode Annex (San Francisco, CA)
Performers: Tessa Nebrida, Phoenicia Pettyjohn, Karla Quintero
Sound: Matt Robidoux

With collaborators Tessa Nebrida, Phoenicia Pettyjohn, and Karla Quintero, dance in three prayers contemplates questions of collective survival strategies and prayer. This dance contemplates questions of collective survival strategies and prayer. We look closer at how a time of immense chaos and destruction is transforming each of us uniquely, what preparation we undergo to ready ourselves for this transformation, and how this transformation serves our individual as well as our communal survival. We draw on existing mythology and create our own new mythology as guides for the seemingly apocalyptic time in which we are living. The dancers walk in unison, reflect one another, and engage in a process of transformation/shapeshifting to meet this moment.

dance in three prayers is the second entry in a larger project, Destruction Mythologies — an iterative choreographic interrogation of questions about survival, transformation, and renewal. As opposed to creation myths, Destruction Mythologies attempts to create new mythology in the interest of new knowledge for individual and collective survival under increasingly unsurvivable conditions.

Rehearsal for dance in three prayers featuring Tessa Nebrida, Phoenicia Pettyjohn, and Karla Quintero © Cauveri Suresh 2025

Upcoming Performance:
Friday, January 23rd 7:30pm
Joe Goode Annex
401 Alabama Street, San Francsico CA 94110