TU Dance: Community Class with Mora-Amina Parker - April 5

Join us for a series of community classes this spring that feature some of the choreographers and artists involved with TU Dance’s 20th Anniversary Season!

Join Mora-Amina Parker for a dynamic, community-centered dance class drawing from Camille A. Brown’s choreography. Open to all ages, this class explores movement from “New Second Line” and “I AM”, celebrating Black joy, resilience, and storytelling through dance. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced mover, come connect, express, and move with intention in a welcoming space that honors the history of social dances and personal expression.

Saturday, April 5
10:00-11:30am
Cost: $20
For more information and to register, click here.

Ms. Parker is currently the rehearsal director and restager for Camille A. Brown and Dancers. She has performed with the Savage Jazz Dance Company, Robert Moses’ Kin, Philadanco II, Dallas Black Dance Theater, and Philadanco. In 2009, Ms. Parker was invited to perform with Camille A. Brown and subsequently joined her company. In 2014, Ms. Parker was a member of Ms. Brown’s Mr. Tol E. RanCE which received a Bessie Award for outstanding production. Ms. Parker has assisted Ms. Brown in staging her choreography for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (2019) and on the Broadway revival of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, nominated for seven Tony Awards including best choreography. Alongside her dedication to dance practice, Ms. Parker is a PhD candidate drafting her dissertation, “The Expressive Black-Life Worlds of Talley Beatty’s Choreographies: Embodiments of Afropessimism and Afrofuturism” at Temple University.

Location Info

TU Dance Center
2121 University Avenue West
Saint Paul, MN 55114
651-724-9708
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Contact Info

Mia Johnson
education@tudance.org
651-724-9708