Teaching

The Moving Prayer not only shares the gift of sacred dance through presenting and performing but also through teaching.

Workshops

The Moving Prayer always incorporates these two elements in their live workshops – witnessing and experience. Many workshops begin with a short performance to allow participants to witness sacred dance, and in particular, to become familiar with The Moving Prayer and our signature style. Many participants who take our workshops are new to sacred dance in general so this opportunity allows them to see sacred dance, often for the first time, before trying it out themselves! The experience portion of the workshop is customized to suit age, ability, and background.

Here is an example of a typical workshop offered.

Preparing for Presentation or Performance

As an extension to our introductory workshop, part of the workshop experience can be dedicated to learning a dance to be presented or performed by the participants. We have led many workshops where participants later presented at a Closing Liturgy or similar. Take a look at the examples below.

The examples come from various National College “Preaching in Action” Conferences. College students from across the United States participate in a week-long conference learning the charism of the Order of Preachers, which include one day of Preaching through the Arts. The students seen in the examples below participated in the workshops for Sacred and Liturgical Dance, where they were introduced to the art and prayer form and prepared for presenting at the Commissioning Liturgy. The National College “Preaching in Action” Conference is a project of Dominican Youth Movement – USA.

Choreography for Special Projects

Founder and Director Jessica Abejar often coordinates groups and choreographs dances for special projects.

Here are examples of special projects that The Moving Prayer has led.