A Call to Prayer

Overview

The subtle body connects us globally by the threads of grief, joy, struggle, and awakening. “A Call to Prayer” by Zaquia Mahler Salinas is a moving meditation that pulls these threads through embodied ritual, inviting us to honor our pain and call into existence restoration and hope. With both universal themes and unique expressions of ritual and communion as a source material, this dance seeks to connect us to the collective experience of journeying into and out of darkness.

About the Artist

Zaquia Mahler Salinas is a dance artist invested in movement-art as an act of reclamation and world-building. Her work often joins dance, text, and video, connecting audiences to visceral, intimate, and introspective narratives. She shape-shifts as a performer, choreographer, educator, curator, administrator, producer, and organizer.

Originally from San Diego, she has shared her work throughout California, as well as in Massachusetts, Texas, Mexico, Peru. She is the founder of DISCO RIOT (est. 2018) - a nonprofit organization that supports creative possibilities for advancing the dance scene in her hometown. Zaquia is currently serving as Resident Curator with ODC Theater in San Francisco, as well as working on a new venture, Ephemeral Artery, with the intention to uplift skillful practice and creative project development.

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