A Denver-based company founded in the early 1970s, the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble specializes in works inspired by the African American experience and rooted in Black dance traditions. Ms. Parker Robinson is a master teacher, choreographer, and cultural ambassador who served on the National Council on the Arts and has received numerous lifetime achievement awards. The company’s repertory includes works by Talley Beatty, Ronald K. Brown, Dianne McIntyre, and many other prominent dancemakers, and Pillow performances have included Katherine Dunham’s Barrelhouse Blues and Donald McKayle’s Nocturne. McKayle enjoyed an especially long and deep relationship with the company, and Crossing the Rubicon was his final work. His program note referenced “the current plight of refugees and their experiences, struggles, and fears.”
EXPLORE JOHN PERPENER’S MULTI-MEDIA ESSAY ON DONALD McKAYLE
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