Call to Remember is a shared offering
of improvisation, experimentation, and conjuring
exploring Black pedagogy, artistry, and activism in dance.
Photo by Kari Mosel
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)
Pillsbury House + Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
April 28, 2023 || 6:30PM
Pangea World Theater
Minneapolis, MN
April 29, 2023 || 7:00PM
Divination Tools:
imagine home
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
Image link to Threshold of Change, Walker Art Center video recording
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
Photo by Yasmine Yassin
BLACK DANCE IMPROVISATION
FESTIVAL
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
"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
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
BDI Workshop 2
Guest Artist: Marlies Yearby
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
"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
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
Danspace Project, NY, Residency
Themes: exchange, planting seeds
Walker Art Center Residency
Themes: ground water, dissolve, embodiment, home
Pillsbury House + Theatre Residency
Themes: earth, grief, ancestors, guidance
Pangea World Theater Residency
Themes: water, light, pilgrimage, human migration
Sponsored by
Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC)
Danspace Project
Walker Art Center
Pillsbury House + Theatre
Pangea World Theatre
Image credit: Joshua B. Alafia