He Increase, I Decrease
Inspired by John 3:30—“He must increase, and I must decrease”—this project explores worship as an act of surrender, a movement releasing the onesself in reverence to God. It is not the individual body that takes center stage but the spirit within it, responding in uninhibited devotion.
In the Black church, praise is not confined to words; it is spoken through the body, through motion, and the unfiltered dialogue between the Holy Spirit and the soul. As a dancer, I am trained to observe, to find patterns, and to absorb movement as choreography. As a Christian, my strength to abandon engrained patterns is challenged. Yet, in worship, there is no script. Praise unfolds in a language of its own—erratic, then fluid, then erratic again—unconcerned with external perception, guided only by divine presence.
It is intimate and loud, vulnerable yet unrestrained. The body doesn’t acknowledge any outside perspectives apart from Christ himself. A cacophony of emotions fills the space, forming a sacred perimeter around the worshipper, protecting the movement for as long as the spirit requires. This project seeks to capture that fleeting, ineffable expression of faith—the body as both vessel and instrument, yielding entirely to the perception of God.
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