
Current Projects
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Praise! Or Back into the Fire (2019-present)
Co-Created and performed by Gabriel Thom Pasculli and Vincent Thomas of VT Dance.
An immersive dance and storytelling performance exploring self and spirit through a child’s experience of CHURCH. Through dance, song and religious fantasy, the two performers crisscross memory, liturgy, and the Heavenly spheres to re-construct coming-of-age within the modern mythos of Christ. Developed at 2019 at Dartmouth College’s VoxLab and in 2021 and 2023 at Art Omi in New York State. An excerpt of Praise! will be featured as part of VT Dance’s 20th anniversary concert at The Theater Project in Baltimore, April 21-23.
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On the Table (2022-present)
In creation with Amba-Suhasini Jhala and Rudy Nair (India), Guilherme Kirchheim (Brazil), and Anastacia Narrajos, Desiré Graham, Katie Mazzini, and Gabriel Thom Pasculli (US).
The smell of sauce wafts around every corner. Drinks are mixed, carrots chopped, and conversations start to roll with the boiling pasta water. More than dinner, more than a performance, this group of artists is looking for a way forward. In the face of what Canadian scholar Devora Neumark has called the triple pandemic of Covid-19, white supremacy, and climate crisis, the collective in "On the Table" attempt to engage issues of global concern at the scale of human-sized meal. This project has been developed over four residencies in 2022 in northern NJ, Chicago, Wisconsin, and Italy.
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Still a Quiet Afternoon (2019-present)
Presented by Steppenwolf’s LookOut Series and Walkabout Theater Company in July 2022 | Written and Performed by Katie Mazzini & Gabriel Thom Pasculli | Direction by Guilherme Kirchheim & Tara Ostiguy | Dramaturgy by Tara Ostiguy & Desiré Graham
While the fires of Troy burn outside their window, an ancient and familiar couple faces off within the present moment’s epic call to action. Time unravels as the couple is swept up into reveries, melodramatic battles, and their own raging desire for affirmation in the midst of an end-of-days catastrophe. The piece is a comic and tender exploration of how we sometimes find grace and sometimes find strife in one another. And how we often miss the point.
Developed in separate residencies at the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, the Chicago Parks District, and Post Farm.
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interWEBS_ (2020-present)
presented by Walkabout Theater Company | Conceived and Co-produced by Gabriel Thom Pasculli and Alex Benito Rodriguez
An online, interdisciplinary gallery of intimate and remote collaborations inspired by thematic seeds of land, storytelling, and social transformation. Created interdependently by ten artists in seven cities across the globe. Featuring the work of Devora Neumark (Nunavut, Canada); John Titi Namai (Nairobi, Kenya); Percy Van Ort and David Dowd (Chicago, US); and Walkabout members Amba-Suhasini Jhala, Anastacia Narrajos, Alex Benito Rodriguez, Cooper Forsman, and Rudy Nair (Chicago, US and Delhi, India). Website design by Horatio Acevedo.
Available now at www.interwebsart.org