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.