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.
Photography by Kari Mosley
Tours and Events
Premieres
Black Dance Improvisation
Festival
April 28, 2023 || 6:30PM
Pillsbury House + Theatre
April 29, 2023 || 6:30PM
Pangea World Theatre
Tickets and details coming soon.
Curated by
Leslie Parker
Featured artists
Ashe Jaafaru
Ryan-Olivia Lundy
Tumelo Khupe
Jazz Casteneda
Arneshia Williams
Imagine Joy
Sponsored by Pillsbury House & Theatre, Pangea World Theatre, National Performance Network, Walker Art Center.
Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN
May 11-13, 2023
A processional will occur each day of the event. Attendance is free on May 11th. For questions, please call the Walker Art Center Box Office 612-375-7600.
Danspace Project
New York, NY
Fall 2023
Tickets coming soon
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Divination Tools: imagine home,
the newest iteration of Call to Remember,
will premiere in Minneapolis at the Walker Art Center,
and in New York at Danspace Project.
"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
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.
Workshop 3
Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC)
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
February 8-9, 2023
Artist: Leslie Parker
Workshop 1
Part B
Barbara Barker Center for Dance
Minneapolis, MN
June 25, 2022
Guest artist: Nia Love
Workshop 2
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
October 21-22, 2022
Guest artist: Marlies Yearby
Workshop 1
Part A
Pillsbury House and Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
June 24, 2022
Guest artist: Nia Love
"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
Research Based
Creative Residencies
Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC)
Tallahassee, FL
March 6-18, 2023
Themes: tending, growing
Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN
December 6-12, 2021
Themes: ground water, dissolve, embodiment, home
Pangea World Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
August - September, 2021
Themes: water, light, pilgrimage, human migration
Danspace Project
New York, NY
September 26 - October 2, 2022
Pillsbury House and Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
January - May, 2021
Themes: earth, grief, ancestors, guidance
Image credit: Joshua B. Alafia
