Call to Remember

Videography by Adriana Foreman

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

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.

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Call to Remember (CtR) is a shared offering of improvisation, experimentation, and conjuring exploring Black pedagogy, artistry, and activism in dance. 

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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.