Dance
Triumphant unites COCA’s Pre-Professional dance companies as they take their season-ending bows and COCA’s graduating seniors grace the stage one last time.
Triumphant highlights the versatility of our young artists as they present 12 dance works across three unique programs. Throughout the year, the dancers experience creative development residencies with guest artists including Justin Conte, Tom Gold, My’Kal Stromile, and Omari Wiles. Bringing new work to premiere at COCA, each guest artist mounts their piece specifically for COCA dancers and collaborates with COCA’s production team to fully realize the work.
The Friday, May 10 performance features our graduating dancers telling their COCA stories in their senior statements, their college or post-secondary training plans, and sharing a solo dance piece with the audience.
May 9, 2024 – May 11, 2024
Catherine B. Berges Theatre at COCA
MAY 9 | 7:00PM
MAY 10 | 7:00PM
MAY 11 | 1:00PM & 5:00PM
All Ages
For tickets & more information: cocastl.org/calendar/triumphant-2024/
Event Date | 05-09-2024 7:00 pm |
Event End Date | 05-11-2024 |
Location | COCA (Center of Creative Arts) |
Our spring concert will showcase the work of multifaceted creatives who are trailblazers in their respective artistic communities. We will conclude our 23-24 season with 3 programs to include world premieres by 2021 Guggenheim Fellow Tommie-Waheed Evans whose work intersects movement vocabulary that blends cultural forms and contemporary dance vocabularies, with narratives that are often rooted in the black experience, and 2022 Princess Grace Award Winning choreographer and director Omar Román de Jesús who uses his work to express the complexities of Latinx identities.
For more information: thebigmuddydanceco.org
Event Date | 05-16-2024 7:30 pm |
Event End Date | 05-19-2024 |
Location | COCA (Center of Creative Arts) |
Our spring concert will showcase the work of multifaceted creatives who are trailblazers in their respective artistic communities. We will conclude our 23-24 season with 3 programs to include world premieres by 2021 Guggenheim Fellow Tommie-Waheed Evans whose work intersects movement vocabulary that blends cultural forms and contemporary dance vocabularies, with narratives that are often rooted in the black experience, and 2022 Princess Grace Award Winning choreographer and director Omar Román de Jesús who uses his work to express the complexities of Latinx identities.
For more information: thebigmuddydanceco.org
Event Date | 05-17-2024 7:30 pm |
Event End Date | 05-20-2024 |
Location | COCA (Center of Creative Arts) |
Our spring concert will showcase the work of multifaceted creatives who are trailblazers in their respective artistic communities. We will conclude our 23-24 season with 3 programs to include world premieres by 2021 Guggenheim Fellow Tommie-Waheed Evans whose work intersects movement vocabulary that blends cultural forms and contemporary dance vocabularies, with narratives that are often rooted in the black experience, and 2022 Princess Grace Award Winning choreographer and director Omar Román de Jesús who uses his work to express the complexities of Latinx identities.
For more information: thebigmuddydanceco.org
Event Date | 05-18-2024 7:30 pm |
Event End Date | 05-21-2024 |
Location | COCA (Center of Creative Arts) |
Our spring concert will showcase the work of multifaceted creatives who are trailblazers in their respective artistic communities. We will conclude our 23-24 season with 3 programs to include world premieres by 2021 Guggenheim Fellow Tommie-Waheed Evans whose work intersects movement vocabulary that blends cultural forms and contemporary dance vocabularies, with narratives that are often rooted in the black experience, and 2022 Princess Grace Award Winning choreographer and director Omar Román de Jesús who uses his work to express the complexities of Latinx identities.
For more information: thebigmuddydanceco.org
Event Date | 05-19-2024 7:30 pm |
Event End Date | 05-22-2024 |
Location | COCA (Center of Creative Arts) |
SPRING TO DANCE Festival 2024
The Midwest region’s most celebrated dance festival returns for the 16th year. Nationally touring professional companies from coast to coast flock to St. Louis to bestow their artistry. It’s an unmatched buffet of dance, featuring two days of nonstop dance from a wide array companies, including powerhouse companies, breakout stars and up-and-coming companies. Noted as one of the region’s must-see festivals – “arguably the best dance buffet in the Midwest” (Chicago Tribune) and “a celebration of dance and… an invitation to bask in its artistry” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) – the vibrant dance extravaganza brings together more than 75 dancers from across the country.
From contemporary and ballet to modern and flamenco, SPRING TO DANCE® offers something for everyone with a distinct, dynamic program each night!
Fri., May 24th & Sat., May 25th at the Touhill Performing Arts Center.
See this year’s festival line-up and purchase tickets at: dancestlouis.org/spring-to-dance-festival-2024
Event Date | 05-24-2024 5:30 pm |
Event End Date | 05-25-2024 |
Location | Touhill Performing Arts Center |