Trinity Irish Dance Company
PHOTO BY LOIS GREENFIELD
Date: Saturday, Nov 11, 2023 at 7:30 pm
Location: Touhill Performing Arts Center
Offering everything you expect and nothing you’d imagine, the Trinity Irish Dance Company brings a cutting-edge, integrity-filled vision to the stage. Called “sophisticated and commanding” by the Los Angeles Times and “impossibly complex” by The New York Times, Trinity Irish Dance Company has sold out tours and venues around the globe with its hard-driving percussive power and aerial grace while sending a clear message of female empowerment.
Ailey II
Photo by Daniel Azoulay
Date: Friday & Saturday, Mar 1 & 2, 2024 at 7:30 pm
Location: Touhill Performing Arts Center
They’re back! Bringing their “off-the-charts-energy” (The New Yorker) to the stage, Ailey II dancers return to St. Louis, where they completely sold out the Touhill Performing Arts Center months prior to their performance. This season, the renowned ensemble of rising stars brings you to your feet with works by emerging and established choreographers.
BODYTRAFFIC
Photo by Timothy Fernandez
Date: Saturday, Apr 6, 2024 at 7:30 pm
Location: Touhill Performing Arts Center
“One of the most talked about companies – not just in LA, but nationwide” (Los Angeles Times), BODYTRAFFIC has surged to the forefront of the contemporary dance world with compelling style that reflects “invention, attitude, and urban edge” (The Boston Globe). Widely acclaimed for its “peerless dancers” who “can do it all from hip-hop to ballet” (LA Dance Chronicle), the company is composed of artists who received their training in some of the finest schools throughout the world.
16th Annual Emerson SPRING TO DANCE® Festival 2024
COLLAGE DANCE COLLECTiVE. photo COURTESY OF COLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE.
Date: Friday & Saturday, May 24 & 25, 2024 | Doors open at 5:30 pm
Location: Touhill Performing Arts Center
The Midwest region’s most celebrated dance festival returns for the 16th year! The St. Louis Post-Dispatch proclaims it “successful both as a celebration of dance and as an invitation to bask in its artistry.” Year after year after year, Emerson SPRING TO DANCE® Festival continues to reign as “arguably the best dance buffet in the Midwest” (Chicago Tribune), featuring two consecutive days of nonstop dance from a wide array of nationally touring professional companies.
