Artistic Director Leslie Parker is a dance artist, director, choreographer, improviser, educator, and performer born in the traditional homeland of Indigenous people, mostly the Dakhóta and Ojibwe people (Twin Cities, MN). Brooklyn, NY – the traditional homeland of Lenapehoking – is a home art-base for over 10 years. Her dance practice emphasizes an organic aesthetic in experimental movement derived from the Black and African diaspora. Parker initiated Leslie Parker Dance Project, LPDP, as a means to experience dance art more intuitively. Parker deeply embodies Black Improvisation, Traditional Sene-Gambian W. African, and Contemporary/Modern technique derived from and exchanged across multiple continents. Leslie Parker Dance Project, LPDP, is a means to experience dance art more intuitively to engage with the world as a revolutionary act. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, holds a MFA from Hollins University, and has received awards including Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, McKnight Choreographer Fellow and a Bessie for Outstanding Performer as a part of Skeleton Architecture collective.
