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CLEO PARKER ROBINSON Founder / Artistic Director / Choreographer leads the 52 year old Denver based Cleo Parker Robinson Dance (CPRD), encompassing the renowned Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble (CPRDE), Cleo II (her 2nd company), Youth/Junior Youth Ensembles, an Academy of Dance, an International Summer Dance Institute, a 240 seat theatre, and multiple community engagement programs nationally and internationally. A master teacher/choreographer and cultural ambassador, she and CPRDE have performed nationwide, throughout Europe, the Caribbean, Asia, and the African continent, with recent international tours in 2019 to Bogota, Colombia, and Mexico
CMs Parker Robinson’s numerous accolades include the Colorado Governor’s Award for Excellence (1974), Denver Mayor’s Award (1979), induction into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame (1989) and the Blacks in Colorado Hall of Fame (1994). She holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of Denver (DU) (1991), Colorado College (2003), Regis University in Denver (2008), and CU Boulder (2021). She received an Alumni Award from DU (2021), and is an HonoraryMember of the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science (2021).. In 2011, she was voted an Honorary Lifetime Trustee of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, in recognition of her lasting impact on the Center. She is also an honoree of the Bonfils Stanton Foundation In June 2017, she received the prestigious DanceUSA Honor Award and in September 2017, the Randy Weeks Arts Leadership Award from the Denver School of the Arts.
Ms Robinson has served on NEA panels on Dance, Expansion Arts, Arts America, and Inter Arts panels for the USIS, and for the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts as well as other national task forces, boards, and committees. In April 1999, she was appointed by then President William Jefferson Clinton, with Senate confirmation, to serve for four years on the National Council on the Arts, a 14 member panel advising the Chairman of the NEA on agency policy and programs, reviewing and making recommendations on grant applications
Since 2011, Ms. Parker Robinson has returned to her greatest passion as a choreographer, creating Dreamcatchers: The Untold Stories of the Americas and the world premiere of Romeo and Juliet, in collaboration with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. On the Edge… Reaching to Higher Ground (October of 2014) addressed resurging racial and human rights infractions world wide She re staged two works (Spring 2017), melding classical and jazz composition with modern dance Romeo and Juliet and Porgy and Bess. Copacetic: A Tribute to Jonathon “JP” Parker (Fall 2017) honored her late father Lark Ascending (Spring 2018) was a collaboration with the Boulder Philharmonic. Rhapsody in Black, a collaboration with CPRD Associate Artistic Director, Winifred R. Harris, premiered at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts, University of Denver In January 2019, in collaboration with the Denver Brass, she choreographed an innovative interpretation of Bernstein’s On the Town and Spring 2019 saw a collaboration with the Colorado Ballet entitled The MOVE/ment as part of the Tour de Force series at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver Performing Arts Complex In 2019, she set a work on CPRDE alum Gary Abbot’s UMKC students, entitled Check Cashing Day in tribute to the jazz genius of Bobby Watson and Milt Abel In August 2021, she premiered Standing On the Shoulders, a work commissioned by the Vail Dance Festival. September 2021 saw the debut of Freedom Dance, created with jazz icon Dianne Reeves and CPRD co founder and poet, Schyleen Qualls and in October 2021, she premiered R.I.Power, commissioned by the Colorado College Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs. April 2022 saw the premiere of her commissioned works for Motown and More, in collaboration with the Denver Gay Men’s Chorus. Her latest work, Sacred Spaces?, set to the original score of Adonis Rose, Director of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, premieres September 2022 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver Performing Arts Complex
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Robinson Dance Ensemble before moving on to Dallas Black Dance Theater and a solo stint in New York and abroad In October 1991, she relocated to Los Angeles, CA, founding her own award nominated contemporary modern dance company. In recognition of her dedication and commitment to underprivileged youth, Ms. Harris received several awards from the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles for her teaching efforts within that community. Having served on faculty at various universities and studios nationwide, including Cal Arts (her alma mater), Cal State Los Angeles and Spelman College, she returned to Cleo Parker Robinson Dance in 2010 as Ensemble Rehearsal Director and became Associate Artistic Director in 2014. A number of her innovative works are part of the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble's repertoire
Harris, choreographer, artist, teacher, and community activist, has created a significant body of work with a strong balance of technical prowess and gestural expression. Having trained under Cleo Parker Robinson, she danced professional for ten years with Cleo Parker
Kansas City native, Ms. Abel trained for twelve years under full scholarship at the Kansas City Ballet School She studied in New York at the Ailey School as a Fellowship recipient, and received her BFA in Dance, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of Missouri Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance. Her professional career includes performances with Quixotic Performance Fusion, the Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, the Owen/Cox Dance Group, Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company and as an Apprentice with the Kansas City Ballet. Ms. Abel is now in her eleventh season with the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble and is also Rehearsal Director for the Ensemble CLEO PARKER ROBINSON DANCE www.cleoparkerdance.org 303 .295.1759 Currently in our 52nd Season, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance is an international performing arts and education institution rooted in African American traditions, dedicated to excellence in providing cross-cultural instruction, performances, and enrichment programs -empowering all our communities by cultivating the healthy mind, body, and spirit development for intergenerational students, artists, and audiences.
WhatisLove? Choreographer: Tyveze Littlejohn Dancers: Samiyah Lynnice and John e Roberts Music: Adele What is love? Love is something we're all in search of It's feeling comfortable and happy in your skin and in your life. The inability to control your emotions and feelings, even the ones you don't want Yet, they're always present when you find this uncomfortable, tangible, vulnerable feeling called love. Muliebrity(ThefirstJourney) Choreographer: Ralaya Goshea The Women: Hannah Mu, Sadie Sandoval, Dominique Willis The Woman: Ralaya Goshea Music: Alarm Will Sound, El Buho and Tribal Tribute For all the women that make up the Woman The mother, daughter, wife, sister, friend, girlfriend, career driven, homemaker, everyday woman that has lifted, loved, lost, lived, fallen, given, taken, trusted, studied, prayed and simply existed We journey past docility, before effeteness, right at the crest of our aptitude for Majesty We Are Woman UNDER/neath Choreographer: John e. Roberts Dancers: Tyveze Littlejohn, Corey Boatner,Sadie Sandoval, Dominique Willis, Hannah Mu, Gabriela Maduro and Rai Goshea Music: Taiko Daiko and Tampa Taiko Rhythm is sound in motion It is related to the pulse the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves. Edward Hirsch Huge thanks and gratitude to CPRDE, my cast for being on this journey with me I am so blessed and humbled to have worked with each and every one of you. YOUR SOULS pour out every time we meet and for that, I am eternally grateful With love, John e. Roberts Torn Choreographer: Martez McKinzy Dancers: Corey Boatner, Topaz von Wood Music: Voice 1 Corey Boatner Voice 2 Topaz Von Wood Music: Above & Beyond Sound Design: Corey Boatner
InADay'sWork Choreographer: Corey Boatner Dancers: Caeli Blake, Jasmine Francisco, Samiyah Lynnice, Lauren Slaughter, Topaz Von Wood Music: Max Richter To truly understand the emotional cycle of change, you must first choose to feel. Amyg(excerptfromTremor) Choreographer and Dancer: Chloé Abel Music Anita Kerr Singers and Max Richter The dose makes the poison TheSisterhoodoftheTravelingVest Choreographer: Jasmine Francisco Dancers: Samiyah Lynnice, Gabriela Maduro, Caeli Blake and Lauren Slaughter Music: Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Not, Opto, Opiate & Alva Noto and Ezio Bosso Sisters are different flowers in the same garden. RackandRuin Choreographer: Topaz von Wood Dancer: Topaz von Wood Hands: Corey Boatner and Gabriela Maduro Music: Ritchie Valens, Labrinth, Mariah the Scientist,Tora, Omar Apollo and Moses Sumney Sound Design: Corey Boatner If you say that something is going to rack and ruin, you are emphasizing that it is slowly becoming less attractive or less pleasant because no one is bothering to look after it ・ FIVE MINUTE PAUSE ・ ・ FIVE MINUTE PAUSE ・ NOAUDIOORVIDEORECORDiNGOFANYTYPE,INCLUDINGONPHONESORTABLETS,IS PERMITTEDWITHOUTPRIORWRITTENPERMISSIONFROMCLEOPARKERROBINSONDANCE Programselections,casting,andorderaresubjecttochangewithoutpriornotice
CleoParkerRobinsonDance CleoParkerRobinsonDance @cleodance @cleoparkerdanceacademy @CPRDance CleoParkerRobinsonDanceisaNon Profit 501(c)3basedinDenver,Coloradosince1970 WWW.CLEOPARKERDANCE.ORG Based in Denver's Five Points neighborhood, the Harlem of the West, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance (CPRD) is an anchor arts institution rooted in cultural traditions of the African Diaspora, and is dedicated to cross-cultural connections. MISSION STATEMENT 5 OPERATIONAL PILLARS TheCleoParkerRobinsonDanceEnsemble andourprofessionaltrainingensemble,CleoII TheCleoParkerRobinsonDanceAcademy Serving1,500studentsages1to101 BAinDancewithMetroStateUniversityofDenver Arts-In-EducationPrograms Cultural&movementoutreach forthousandsofKto12thgradestudents TheCleoParkerRobinsonDanceTheatre Anartsincubatorfor20performancegroups andhometoourperformances Arts-In-Wellbeing Cultural&movementcommunityoutreach, healthequity,andaccess #InspiringMovement #OneSpiritManyVoices
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