In nicHi douglas's (pray), a Musical Communion of Ancestors and Dreamers – The Brooklyn Rail

(pray), nicHi douglas’s religious choreopoem, also empowers those who may be forgotten and subverts norms while plunging the well of faith. In (pray)’s many vibrant hymns, common reverent words get a matrilineal makeover—“amen” turns into “again,” and “father” becomes “freedom”—bringing focus less to Jesus and more to the community church enables.

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