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 – home art-base for over 10 years. Parker deeply embodies Black Improvisation as it is practiced and experienced globally. Her practice emphasizes an exploration of an organic aesthetic inspired by experimental movement derived from the Black and African diaspora, including but not limited to, W. African Sene-Gambian, Black/African American social  vernacular, and Contemporary/Modern technique derived from and exchanged across multiple continents. Leslie Parker Dance Project, LPDP, is an entity created to experience dance art more intuitively and that engages with the world as a revolutionary act.

A Black Woman dressed in black and white, with dark hair wrapped in a bun, displaying profiled of full bodied motion very low to ground in a back-bend position. Photo by Canaan Mattson.
ID: A Black Woman dressed in black and white, with dark hair wrapped in a bun, displaying profiled of full bodied motion very low to ground in a back-bend position. Photo by Canaan Mattson.