Call to Remember:
Exploring Black Pedagogy, Artistry, and Activism in Dance
Leslie Parker Dance Project
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Call to Remember is a shared offering of improvisation, experimentation, and conjuring exploring Black pedagogy, artistry, and activism in dance.
With Call to Remember, lead artist Leslie Parker seeks to create a work that prioritizes Blackness and explores remembrance as a means to cultivate community.
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 space. 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.
This work-in-process clip was filmed during a spring 2021 residency at Pillsbury House Theatre, located at 35th & Chicago in Minneapolis.
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Call to Remember is supported by the Jerome Hill Foundation, Tofte Lake Center, NPN Creation Fund, Minnesota Regional Arts Council Equity Response (MRAC), Pillsbury House + Theatre, Pangea World Theater, Walker Art Center, and Danspace Project.
About Leslie Parker Dance Project
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Leslie Parker Dance Project, LLC, is driven to move Black culture(s) forward into the future through dance-art.
Approach: We embrace shifting-narratives to hold transdisciplinary perspectives and engage performance as daily life ritual for (extra)ordinary exchanges with witnesses/observers/participants as audience from diverse communities, therefore encouraging risk-taking and self-reflection from a Black and African American woman lens collectively.
Learn more at leslieparkerdance.com.