Community Testimony
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Writing &
Conversation
"Though mapped out, processionals are also improvisational. They assemble a tension of attachment and surrender to the ever-changing landscapes and temporalities of the city.
Throughout history, and especially within Black and African Diasporic cultures and traditions, processionals have played a key role in gathering community together."
-Naimah Petigny, Danspace Project, 2023
Leslie Parker and Black Gotham Experience, 2023. Video courtesy of Lily Cohen.
2023
"Threshold of Change: A Processional guided by Black Gotham Experience and Leslie Parker Dance Project" By Naimah Petigny. Danspace Project, NY, Journal: Issue 16 Fall/Winter, 2023.
"Remembering the Spirit of Dance." By Anh Vo. Danspace Project, NY, Journal: Issue 16 Fall/Winter, 2023.
"Call to Remember Methodologies: Reflections." By Naimah Petigny and Leslie Parker. MN Artists, Walker Publishing, 2023.
"Program Notes for Leslie Parker Dance Project." By Philip Bither, Director and Senior Curator of Performing Arts. Walker Publishing, 2023.
MPR Preview of Divination Tools: imagine home
"On the Threshold: A Conversation with Leslie Parker." Walker Publishing, 2023.
"Remembering the Magic of Blue" By Leslie Parker
Imagining: A Gibney Journal Issue 14, March 2023.
2022
"Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance History with Leslie Parker." Studio Stories podcast episode with ARENA DANCES, 2022.
2020
"Collaboration Through This Time - Tofte Lake Center & Leslie Parker Dance Project." Interview with Liz Engelman of Tofte Lake Center, 2020.
2019
"Celebrating Black Feminist Divinity in Leslie Parker Dance Project’s crystal, smoke n’ spirit(s)..." Interview with Michelle Cowin Gibbs, Walker Art Center, 2019.
Interviews & Media
Leslie Parker in Conversation with Philip Bither Walker Art Center || June 23, 2023
Conversation with Walker Art Center McGuire Director and Senior Curator of Performing Arts Philip Bither.
KFAI Twin Cities || April 28, 2023
Toni Pierce-Sands (Founder & Director of TU Dance) and Leslie Parker (Designer & Director of Leslie Parker Dance Project) join KFAI's (KFAI.org 90.3 FM) Papi Umar Malik on LatinoAltROCK! as they discuss their upcoming performances of “The 3-Women Project” at The O'Shaughnessy at St. Catherine University and “Divination Tools: imagine home” at The Walker Art Center.
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Healing Vibrations with Jordan Hamilton
podcast Created by AK Wright || 2021
Kitchen Conversations is about the relationship between art, healing, and Black liberation. Call to Remember is a shared offering of improvisation, experimentation, and conjuring exploring Black pedagogy, artistry, and activism in dance. Invoking the elements of Call to Remember, Leslie Parker and AK Wright bring forth individuals over a meal to have robust conversations about their engagement with CTR, how we are engaging care, improvisation, and communal connections in current, beyond, and past moments. In this episode, Leslie and AK talk with collaborator Jordan Hamilton on his work with Call to Remember, healing lineages, and how he's bringing the healing vibes.
Press
"Parker's work in progress at Pillsbury House Theatre was electric. Just a few blocks from the south Minneapolis intersection where George Floyd had been murdered a year before... This viscerally charged performance"
- sheila regan, star tribune, 2021
2023
"Movements of memory: Leslie Parker premieres a dance of lineage and experience." Minnesota Public Radio News, May 12, 2023.
"Divination Tools: imagine home Press Release." MANCC, 2023.
2021
"Twin Cities dance troupes offered catharsis while posing existential questions." Star Tribune, December 23, 2021.