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X-WR-CALNAME:Black History Month: Choreographer Cleo Parker Robinson on 'Ra
 ce and Gender in the Dance World'
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DESCRIPTION:The Department of Dance will host a guest artist during the mon
 th of February. On Feb. 28\, at 11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m. Cleo Parker Robinson
 \, founder of Cleo Parker Robinson Dance in Boulder\, Colorado\, will hold
  a master class for intermediate/advanced dancers followed by an artist ta
 lk/discussion on "Race and Gender in the Dance World" from 1-2:20 p.m.\n\n
 11:30 a.m.: Open rehearsal in the Jean and Wells Hobler Center for the Art
 s\, Loretto-Hilton Center1-2:20 p.m.: Conversation: "Race and Gender in th
 e Dance World\," Gary Hubler Dance Lounge\, Loretto-Hilton Center \n\nCleo
  Parker Robinson is founder\, artistic director and choreographer of the 4
 0+ year-old Denver-based artistic institution\, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance
 . She leads a professional dance Ensemble\, Youth Ensemble\, a School of D
 ance\, an International Summer Dance Institute\, a 300 seat theatre that b
 ears her name\, and a myriad of community outreach programs.\n\n \n\nIn 20
 05\, Ms. Parker Robinson received a Kennedy Center Medal of Honor during t
 he Center’s “Masters of African American Choreographers” series. Ms.
  Robinson received the first-ever Peaceful Heart Award from Mile-Hi Church
 \, and was honored by the Colorado Gospel Hall of Fame\, and the Metro Sta
 te College Plain & Fancy Ball.\n\n \n\nIn 2006\, she received the “Jill
 ” Award from the South Suburban Denver Chapter of Jack & Jill of America
 \, Inc.\, honoring her work with young people. Also in 2006\, Ms. Parker R
 obinson was honored as a “Pioneer In Black Dance” by the Dynamic Dance
  Festival in Atlanta\, Georgia. In 2007\, she received the Huntington’s 
 Disease of America Distinguished Leadership Award.\, the “Fairfax B. Hol
 mes Community Award” from The Denver Links\, Inc. and the “Unsung Hero
 es Mountain Award” from African American Leadership Institute.\n\n \n\nI
 n 2008\, she was awarded the President’s Award of the Greater Metro Denv
 er Ministerial Alliance\, the Civil Rights Award of the Anti-Defamation Le
 ague\, and the Civil Rights Medallion of the Rachel B. Noel Distinguished 
 Visiting Professorship program.” -biography from cleoparkerdance.org
GEO:38.588612;-90.344818
LOCATION:Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts\, Jean and Wells Hob
 ler Center for Dance
SUMMARY:Black History Month: Choreographer Cleo Parker Robinson on 'Race an
 d Gender in the Dance World'
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.webster.edu/event/black_history_month_master_c
 lass_for_dance_with_choreographer_cleo_parker_robinson
CATEGORIES:Art
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