Call to Remember is a shared offering
of improvisation, experimentation, and conjuring
exploring Black pedagogy, artistry, and activism in dance.
During times of unrest, uncertainty and the unknown we are called to action; to take heed without hesitation or restriction and to be unbounded by place. Call to Remember contains this collaborative improvisation between dance artists, an experience in real-time, a sharing, an uprising of real stories embedded deep within the subconscious. It holds a moment to conjure freedom, protection and love in where Blackness with all of its complexities and intersecting identities exists now and in the future.
Image by Kari Mosley
Residencies
Danspace Project
New York, September
2022
Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, December 2021
ground water, dissolve, embodiment, home
Research based creative residency
Pangea World Theatre
Minneapolis, August - September, 2021
water, light, pilgrimage, human migration
Research based creative residency
Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC)
Tallahassee, Spring 2023
tending, growing
Research based creative residency
Pillsbury House and Theatre
Minneapolis, January - May, 2021
earth, grief, ancestors/guidance
Research based creative residency
Image credit: Joshua B. Alafia
"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
Tours and Events
Premieres
Black Dance Improvisation Workshop Series
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.
Call to Remember (CtR) is a shared offering of improvisation, experimentation, and conjuring exploring Black pedagogy, artistry, and activism in dance.
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.
Workshop 1, Part A
Guest Artist: Nia Love
June 24, 2022
Pillsbury House and Theatre, Minneapolis
Workshop 2,
Part A & B
Guest Artist: Marlies Yearby
October 21, 2022 A
October 22, 2022 B
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Workshop 1, Part B
Guest Artist: Nia Love
June 25, 2022
Barbara Barker Center for Dance, Minneapolis
Workshop 3
Artist: Leslie Parker with Guest Artist Paloma McGreggor
Spring 2023
Pangea World Theater, Minneapolis
Registration Link (Coming Soon)
Walker Art Center
Danspace Project
Fall 2023 season to be announced
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Divination Tools: imagine home, the newest iteration of CtR, will premiere in Minneapolis at the Walker Art Center, and in New York at Danspace Project.