Leslie Parker Dance Project Residency - Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC)

Written By Naimah Petigny

Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC), Tallahassee, FL 

Dance research residency with Leslie Parker Dance Project

March 2023.

Divination Tools: imagine home is co-commissioned by Walker Arts Center (MN), Pillsbury House Theatre (MN), Pangea World Theater (MN), Danspace Project (NYC) and Counterpulse (SF). It has been created in partnership with Northrop, Twin Cities Jazz Festival, The Cedar Cultural Center, TU Dance Center and Barbara Barker Center for Dance.

This project also includes “Call to Remember Essays & Statements on Collaboration, Improvisation, and Black Creative Research” by Leslie Parker including contributions by respected colleagues including Black Feminist Scholar, Educator and Dancer, Naimah Petigny, Parker’s Embedded Writer at MANCC. This publication was commissioned by MANCC in partnership with Walker Art Center.   

Naimah Petigny
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