Thank you for your sustaining support of Divination Tools: imagine home, the most recent iteration of the multi-year and multi-iterative work, Call to Remember, CtR.
Call to Remember is a shared offering of improvisation, experimentation, and conjuring exploring Black pedagogy, artistry and activism in dance. Reflecting on divinity and lineage, Divination Tools: imagine home draws from Blackness in music, dance, and storytelling in real time with a powerful collective of Black visual artists, musicians and femme dance artists in liberating performances nation-wide and beyond.
Leslie Parker Dance Project seeks ongoing contributions to support the expansion and longevity of our work going forward. We seek generative relationships that value a shift away from capitalist structures that enable race and gender-based disparities.
Currently, LPDP is in need of 2023-2024 tour support for the following:
- Travel/perdiem/lodging
- Artist fees
- Consultant fees
- Costume maintenance
Because of community, folks like yourself, your philanthropic research and work, CtR has accomplished (but not limited to) the following:
- Secured 3 residencies at Maggie Allesee National Center of Choreography MANCC in 2022
- Administered quarterly all-partner meetings since 2020
- Participated in National Performance Network, NPN, Breakout Session at the NPN Annual Conference 2023
- Initiated and led a unique collaboration between Public Engagement Learning Impact and Performing Arts depts at Walker
- Dived deep in archival research of Black Dance Improvisation at Walker and Danspace Project, NY
- Initiated a collaboration between MANCC and WAC for the publication of the program book, Call to Remember, (inspired by the Black Creative Research for experimental archive practices at Walker for the documentation of CtR
- Black Dance Improvisation Festival presented by Pillsbury House Theatre and Pangea World Theater
- Advocate for anti-racist curatorial practice through shared resources among presenters, producers, organizers and the CtR coalition of partnerships
- World premiere at Walker Art Center
- New York premiere at Danspace Project, NY
For more information, go to https://www.leslieparkerdance.com/.
Thank you!
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