TC Jazz Festival & Leslie Parker Dance Project Present an experiment pt. II

Saturday, June 21, 2025 / Doors: 4:00 PM / Show: 5:00 PM

All Ages

Seated

Free

This is a seated show with general admission, first-come-first-served seating. The Cedar is happy to reserve seats for patrons who require special seating accommodations. To request access accommodations, please go to our .

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Join us for the second iteration of an experiment - a public sharing of improvisation drawing from Blackness in music, storytelling, visual art, and dance.
Leslie Parker & Collaborators will come together to share in dance with live music beginning at 4pm on our plaza with dance to follow indoors. Performances by: Black Dance Improvisation Intensive participants & Music Collaborative with Farai Malianga, Dameun Strange, and DeCarlo Jackson with musical guests. Come to experience an experiment!

Black Dance Improvisation Intensive participants & Music Collaborative with Farai Malianga, Dameun Strange, and DeCarlo Jackson with musical guestsLeslie Parker Dance Project brings together improvisers in the Twin Cities who practice various models of Black improvisation from around the world to an exchange in practice (June 16 - June 20, 2025).The Black Dance Improvisation summer intensive is a no-cost opportunity to study with Parker as well as Amara T. Smith, Onye Ozuzu, and Sydney Mosley. Sessions will take place at Barbara Barker Dance Studio on the University of Minnesota campus and in the St. Paul community. Black Dance Improvisation is a celebration of Pan-Black/African cultural experiences internationally and is an extension of the Call to Remember methodologies. This opportunity is for but not limited to all dance creatives steeped into performance practices.

BDI Intensive 2025 welcomes all bodies to participate in deepening awareness of their Improvisation. Artists who are also organizers, administrators, activists, and co-conspirators of varied dance advocacy are strongly encouraged to attend.

Join us for the culminating BDI Intensive event, an experiment pt. II with performances by Black Dance Improvisation Intensive participants & Music Collaborative:
Farai Malianga, Dameun Strange, and DeCarlo Jackson with musical guests.

An open public sharing of Black Improvisation at The Cedar Cultural Center on June 21, 2024 at 4pm. Free!

Co-presented by Twin Cities Jazz Festival, Leslie Parker Dance Project, and The Cedar.

+ A new edition performance at The Cedar Cultural Center on Sunday, June 22 at 7:30pm. Come witness Leslie Parker & Collaborators featuring special guests!
This single evening performance is a post Twin Cities Jazz festival event. For ticket information, go to: (when we have this set up - will link to 2nd show on Sunday, June 22, 2025)

To learn more about Black Dance Improvisation:

• Visit their website here

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