The Cedar Presents
an experiment pt.II featuring Leslie Parker Dance Project & Melvin Gibbs
Sunday, June 22, 2025 / Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 7:30 PM
All Ages
Seated
$20 Advance, $25 Day of Show
*For Cedar Presented shows, a $4 facility fee is included in the ticket price (Ticket fee info here).
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 Access page.
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ABOUT THIS PERFORMANCE
Join us for an experiment pt. II. Leslie Parker Dance Project brings together improvisers in the Twin Cities who practice various models of Black improvisation from around the world for this performance - a celebration of Pan-Black/African artistic expressions featuring Leslie Parker Dance Project and Melvin Gibbs.
A new addition performance! Witness Leslie Parker and Collaborators perform with national and local artists. This single evening performance is a post-Twin Cities Jazz Festival event with support from the Center for Performing Arts.
Leslie Parker & Melvin Gibbs
Leslie Parker, a current Jerome@Camargo resident artist in Cassis, France, is a NY Bessie award recipient for outstanding performer, a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and Mcknight Choreographer Fellow, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NYC, awardee. She initiated Leslie Parker Dance Project as a platform to make original dances deeply intuitive and remembered through collective memory. Her work is rooted, researched, and through residencies, public performances, and workshops across the US and internationally.
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Melvin Gibbs is a composer, musician, and writer born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. He is a Grammy-nominated songwriter and the 2019 Jazz Times Critics Poll-winning bassist who Time Out New York magazine once called “the greatest bassist in the world”. In 2021 Northern Spy Records released his EP “4 + 1 Equals 5 for May 25” and in 2022 Editions Mego released his album Anamibia Sessions Vol. 1: The Wave”. His current Bandcamp release is the EP “Sonny Days”. His book “Every Body Dances” will be published by Basic Books in 2026 and his next album “Pangaea Proxima” which will be released on Hausu Mountain this fall.
Gibbs is a renowned bassist and longtime member of Harriet Tubman, the group has been praised by The New York Times and NPR for delivering some of the best jazz performances in recent years—brings his deep, genre-crossing sonic language to this powerful collaboration.
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