RESILIENCE Dance Company is a nonprofit professional contemporary modern dance company. Founded and directed by Emily Haussler in St. Louis, RDC comprises eight unique dance artists. Our mission is to create exceptional dance experiences that fuel human connection. Since 2019, RDC has engaged artists and strengthened communities through performance, education, outreach, and touring programs. RDC both performs repertory concerts and creates original evening-length works that comprise our mainstage season. RDC’s work is rooted in building healthy, sustainable dance spaces that put artists first and enable curiosity, play, and creative risk-taking.
RESILIENCE has touring to Kansas City, Columbia, and Cape Girardeau as well as to Detroit and Chicago for university, festival, and conference performances. We offer both full-length concerts and informal lecture demos, and can work with presenters to construct a program that suits your needs.
Depending on the requested repertoire, RDC can perform in a variety of spaces, including outdoors. A marley floor at least 25’ wide x 20’ deep is required for select repertoire. Please reach out for more information.
Kinetic Tapestry is an international troupe performed in Spain, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Egypt, and at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. In 2018, Kinetic Tapestry was named “Favorite Stage Act” at the St. Louis Renaissance Festival.
Kinetic Tapestry will captivate your audience and give them an experience they will remember forever. Our one-hour performance material is original and inventive, and will leave a lasting impression through entertaining and meaningful performances using a unique blend of Theater, Dance, and Circus Arts. Whether the gathering is intimate or large-scale, our ensemble of storytellers, comedians, and circus artists will impact and inspire your audience.
Technical rider available upon request
45° Flamenco presents both traditional and cutting-edge flamenco singing, music, and dance with music director and guitarist Beau Bledsoe; singer from Sevilla, Spain, Antonio Rojas Flor; dancer/choreographer Melinda Hedgecorth; and various guest artists on percussion, cello, bass, and/or saxophone. Our performances are bilingual and full of rhythm and high energy. We have a variety of presentations which range from a typical mainstage flamenco show in Spain to educational presentations: Orígenes, a music and dance timeline about the different cultures that passed through the South of Spain from medieval to modern times; and Ida y Vuelta, which acknowledges “borrowed songs” from Cuba and Mexico and how they came to be woven into the fabric of Flamenco. 45° Flamenco is also available for classes, workshops and residencies and has experience working with both adults and children in English and/or Spanish.
Available on request
Pythons Drill Team is a community-based youth performing arts organization that provides a safe outlet for girls and boys to express their talents through music, drums, drills, precisions, and props. The team has traveled throughout the United States and has been featured in documentaries and reality shows.
The Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company has been hailed by critics and audiences alike as one of the most exciting, captivating dance troupes in the Midwest. Dance Magazine, in fact, has spotlighted Wylliams/Henry in their critic’s choice issue of favorite picks across America. Works by internationally acclaimed choreographers, such as David Parsons, Dwight Rhoden, Donald McKayle and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, as well as classics by some of the 20th century’s greatest masters, such as Jose Limon, Hanya Holm and Doris Humphrey, are presented by the Company in each of its seasons. Performances are given in both conventional and non-traditional spaces — often in partnership with community organiza¬tions — to introduce contemporary dance to new audiences. Wylliams/Henry connects with a broad spectrum of individuals in both urban and rural communities, while presenting the most powerful and uplifting works from the rich archive of American modern dance.
The Big Muddy Dance Company, under artistic direction of Kirven Douthit-Boyd, is a repertory dance company that showcases high caliber artistic experiences. By engaging both emerging and world-renowned choreographers, collaborating across the St. Louis community through senior outreach, and training future performers through our educational programs, we constantly strive to invigorate life through dance.
Current available repertoire for booking includes work by these choreographers: Norbert De La Cruz III, Bradley Shelver, Kirven Douthit-Boyd, Sidra Bell, Thang Dao, Jessica Lang, Marcus Jarrell Willis, Elizabeth Corbett, Geoff Alexander, Joshua L. Peugh, Brandon Fink, Omar Román de Jesús, Tommie-Waheed Evans
Touring offerings may include mainstage performances, outreach programs, inter-generational performances, master classes, workshops, and choreographic residencies.
Please see website for tech rider and details.
Tamara introduces her audiences to the sunny land of Spain. Her educational, interactive program combines dance, music, video and images. The rhythm of Spanish music carries the participants through a presentation filled with Spanish language, castanets, fancy heelwork and hand clapping. Tamara has been a faculty member of the Kansas City Ballet School since 2008. Dance workshops include basic foot patterns, steps and postures executed in the traditional flamenco style. Suitable for schools, colleges and community groups.
Available on request
St. Louis Dancing Classrooms (SLDC) is a social and emotional learning program that cultivates essential life skills in students through the practice of ballroom dance. SLDC Teaching Artists model, instruct, and guide students in developing important skills and behaviors including civility, respect, teamwork, and self-discipline whilst teaching the basic steps of six different ballroom dances. SLDC currently offers both in-person and online residency options. Please contact, Angie Brooks for more information.
NEW!! During COVID-19, SLDC is bringing the benefits of our program to students ONLINE! Through a series of pre-recorded and “live” online lessons, students will learn a variety of social dances from around the world. Homeroom Edition residencies support students’ social, emotional, and physical needs.
For grades 3-5, in-school or after-school
Works with 100% remote OR blended learning schedules
Lessons are 30 minutes or less
Flexible program structure
ZERO cost
A clean, well-lit space with optimum dimensions of 30' x 40' cleared of all desks, chairs and objects
Prasanna & Seema’s group specializes in South Asian performing arts. The group performs classical dance styles such as – Bharathanatyam (from South India), Kathak (from North India), Indian folk dances. They sing Carnatic Music, a classical music style from India. They have a fusion music bands with Indo- American styles, with our “Raga Experiment” and “Natya Experiment”. They bring artistic beauty of the East to your event. For more information go to https://www.prasannakasthuri.com/ and https://www.seemakasthuri.com/
Wooden Stage, 25'-32', lighting optional, audio system required, set up time a minimum of six hours.
From collisions of comic absurdity to unexpected revelations of beauty, Owen/Cox Dance Group surprises and delights audiences with its free-spirited mix of the classic and contemporary. Based in the historic jazz-town of Kansas City, the group is comprised of diverse yet close-knit group of dancers and musicians with extensive national and international performing experience. With backgrounds ranging from the Bolshoi Ballet and the Leningrad Chamber Orchestra, to Alvin Ailey and Dave Brubeck, these dancers and musicians form a highly skilled and multi-faceted corps. The collaborative results speak for themselves: fresh and vibrant new works that are classical in form, but contemporary in expression.
Marley floor, stage minimum 34' x 18', lighting optional, sound reinforcement depending on venue, 2 dressing rooms, minimum set-up time 6 hours.