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Call to Remember

Videography by Adriana Foreman

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Call to Remember is a shared offering

of improvisation, experimentation, and conjuring

exploring Black pedagogy, artistry, and activism in dance.

Photo by Kari Mosel

Events

Danspace Project
New York, NY

Thursday Oct. 5, 2023

Friday Oct. 6, 2023

Saturday Oct. 7, 2023

Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN

Thursday May 11, 2023

Friday May 12, 2023

Saturday May 13, 2023

Call to Remember  Essays & Statements on Collaboration, Improvisation, and Black Creative Research

Printed and distributed by Walker Art Center

In partnership with Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC)

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Pillsbury House + Theatre

Minneapolis, MN

April 28, 2023 || 6:30PM

Pangea World Theater

Minneapolis, MN

April 29, 2023 || 7:00PM

Divination Tools:
imagine home
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Photo Credit: Ian Douglas

Venue: Danspcace Project, NY

l. Paloma McGregor c. Leslie Parker r. Tenisha George

Image link to Divination Tools: image home Walker Art Center video sample

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Image link to Threshold of Change, Walker Art Center video recording

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The world premiere of Divination Tools: imagine home is co-presented in partnership with:

Walker Art Center

Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC)

Danspace Project

Pillsbury House + Theatre

Pangea World Theatre

CounterPulse

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Photo by Yasmine Yassin
BLACK DANCE IMPROVISATION
FESTIVAL
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The Black Dance Improvisation Festival advances Leslie Parker’s mission to celebrate and bring more artists into the practice of Black Dance Improvisation and to conjure ‘Black Space’ - liberated creative space centering Black freedom and Black joy.

Featuring

Ashe Jaafaru

Ryan-Olivia Lundy

Tumelo Khupe

Jazz Casteneda

Arneshia Williams

Imagine Joy

Curated by

Leslie Parker

Sponsored by

Pillsbury House & Theatre

Pangea World Theater 

Minnesota State Arts Board

Metro Regional Arts Council

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CTR Events

"As someone interested in how Black people care and heal as a response to and beyond violence, terror, and harm, I am drawn to how Black people craft alternative ways of being and living. And that is the work of Call to Remember. The Black improvisation of CTR brings forth attention to how Black people construct possibilities that allow for new worlds to emerge."

 

–AK Wright

CTR Workshops

Workshops

Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC)

Tallahassee, FL

February 8-9, 2023

Walker Art Center

Minneapolis, MN

October 21-22, 2022

Barbara Barker Center for Dance

Minneapolis, MN

June 25, 2022

Pillsbury House and Theatre

Minneapolis, MN

June 24, 2022

Black Dance Improvisation

Workshop Series

The Black Dance Improvisation (BDI) Workshop Series is a space to explore rigor and to center healing, remembrance, lineage, and joy as a means of cultivating community. We will move through an embodied practice to build greater awareness of body, lineage, space, and improvisation in dance.

 

There will be four multi-session workshops which allow for deep embodied exploration, cumulative learning, and community building. By the end of the workshop series, the community of artists steeped in Black dance improvisation will have grown.

BDI Workshop 3

Artist: Leslie Parker

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BDI Workshop 2

Guest Artist: Marlies Yearby

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BDI Workshop 1
Part B

Guest Artist: Nia Love

BDI Workshop 1
Part A

Guest Artist: Nia Love

Sponsored by

Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC)

Walker Art Center

Barbara B. Barker Center for Dance

Pillsbury House and Theatre

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"Divination Tools: imagine home is a way to link conversations about black bodies, improvisation, and a way to address complexity and multiplicity around improvisation and how artists are writing themselves into the future."

 

–Leslie Parker

CTR Residencies

Residencies

Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC)

Tallahassee, FL

March 6-18, 2023

Danspace Project

New York, NY

Sept 26. - Oct. 1, 2022

Walker Art Center

Minneapolis, MN

Dec. 6 - 12, 2021

Pillsbury House + Theatre

Minneapolis, MN

Jan. - May, 2021

Pangea World Theaer

Minneapolis, MN

Aug. - Sept., 2021

Research Based

Creative Residencies

MANCC Residency
Themes: tending, growing

MANCC Press Release

Danspace Project, NY, Residency
Themes: exchange, planting seeds

Danspace Project, NY, Press Release

Walker Art Center Residency
Themes: ground water, dissolve, embodiment, home
Pillsbury House + Theatre Residency
Themes: earth, grief, ancestors, guidance

National Performance Network Press Release

Pangea World Theater Residency
Themes: water, light, pilgrimage, human migration

Pangea Press Release

Sponsored by

Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC)

Danspace Project

Walker Art Center

Pillsbury House + Theatre

Pangea World Theatre

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Image credit: Joshua B. Alafia

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