Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Leslie Parker - Season 9, Episode 115

A dance artist born on occupied land and deeply rooted in the
neighborhood  named the Rondo community of St. Paul, MN. She
holds a BFA from Esther Boyer College of Music and Dance, a MFA
in Dance from Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, The Frankfurt University
of Music and Performing Arts and The Dresden Frankfurt Company in
Frankfurt, Germany and is a 2017 Bessie award recipient.  As
a dance creative, she highlights unique individual contributions
while digging into collective memory to engage with the world
more imaginatively. Her aesthetic encompasses an organic
physical/movement hybrid influenced by the Black and African
Diaspora: Traditional W. African, Black/African American
vernacular/social dance, Improvisation, and Contemporary/Modern
technique that is derived from and exchanged across multiple
continents. She created Leslie Parker Dance Project, LLC as a
means to experience dance more inventively and intuitively. Her
work is mostly recently funded by Funded by National Dance
Project/nefa, National Performance Network Creation Fund,
National Performance Development Fund and National Performance
Network Community Engagement Fund.