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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! 

Friday, May 24th & Saturday, May 25th at the Touhill Performing Arts Center.

Check out this year’s festival line-up and purchase tickets at: dancestlouis.org/spring-to-dance-festival-2024

DON’T WAIT FOR THE MARLBORO MAN is the US Premiere of a play written by OLIVIER GAROFALO presented by the award-winning Upstream Theater directed by Philip Boehm and featuring a creative team of local professional artists. 

Two very different people meet in a hospital. Sarah has just received news of her partner’s motorcycle accident and rushed out of her office, cell phone in hand. Word has also reached Pedro, the hospitalized man’s good-natured motorcycle buddy. Their encounter reveals a collision of lifestyles and values that touches on larger issues of risk and security, individual freedom, and social responsibility—all with vivid dialogue in an intriguingly theatrical frame.

April 12-14, 18-21, 25-28

All shows at 8:00 PM
except Sundays April 14 at 7:00 PM, April 21 & 28 at 2:00 PM

For tickets & more information: upstreamtheater.org

COCAcabana, COCA’s annual fundraiser, is a dynamic and creative spring event that draws more than 500 business and community leaders for cocktails and dinner, silent and live auctions, artistic performances, special celebrity guests, and imaginative themes that are uniquely COCA.

Started in 1988, COCAcabana sustains COCA’s work throughout the community, which provides arts programming in schools without access to arts education and offers scholarships for students to participate in COCA programs. Accounting for nearly 20 percent of COCA’s annual contributed revenue, COCAcabana is crucial to continuing this vital work.

For more information: cocastl.org
or email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

A companion event to the exhibition, “Ferguson and Beyond: Artists & Poets Speak Out,” will feature exhibition artists and include poetry readings, artist talks, and performances. 

Friday, April 26th, 2024, 5:30 - 7:30pm

Location: Hunt Gallery in the Visual Arts Studio (VAS), Webster University Campus: 8342 Big Bend Blvd., Webster Groves, MO 63119 

Open gallery from 5:30 - 6:15pm; “Artists & Poets Speak Out” from 6:15 - 7:30pm.  
 
Artists include Cheeraz Gormon, Dannie Boyd, Lillian Gardner, William Morris, Ronald Young, and Jason Vassar-Elong.

For more information, email: Amber at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The FREE outdoor event will begin at noon and will feature the 2024 NDW Honorary Dance Company, The Big Muddy Dance Company.

Over 50 dance troupes and hundreds of dancers including The Big Muddy Dance Company, Ballet 314, WU Dance Collective, Lindenwood University, Karlovsky & Company Dance to name a few.

NDW features diversified cultural expressions of dance including ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop, modern disciplines, as well as Irish, Mexican, African, Middle Eastern, and Indian.

The event will also host a variety of food trucks.

For more information: nationaldanceweekstl.com 
or email Linda, at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The Native Plant Fair will feature a native plant sale, along with a team of experienced native plant gardeners to offer guidance and answer questions.

Educational tables and tours of nearby rainscaping/bioretention installations will offer native gardeners more opportunity to grow their expertise.

The Native Plant Fair is free, but advance registration helps to predict how much plant stock vendors should bring.

For more information & to register: partnersfornativelandscaping.stlouisaudubon.org/fair

Discover the joy of jazz together with Jazz St. Louis’s new Youth & Family Concerts! Designed to delight audiences of all ages, these matinee shows offer a wonderful opportunity for families to immerse themselves in the vibrant world of jazz.

Youth & Family Concerts are more than just performances; they’re interactive experiences where young minds can explore the rhythms, melodies, and stories that make jazz a timeless art form.

These family-friendly matinees are perfect for introducing children to live music in an engaging and accessible way.

Each concert is tailored to captivate both the young and the young-at-heart.

From toe-tapping classics to contemporary jazz tunes, our shows feature a variety of styles to ensure there’s something for everyone to enjoy.

For tickets & more information: jazzstl.org

INVITING ALL AMBITIOUS BROWNPRENEURS TO PARTICIPATE!

Welcome to the Brownpreneurs Entrepreneurship Academy (BEA)!

Join BEA on the 1st and 2nd Saturdays in April, May, Aug., Sep., Oct., & Nov. from 11 am - 1:30 pm for a day filled with inspiration, networking, and learning.

Whether you’re a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting out, BEA is the perfect place to connect with like-minded individuals and gain valuable insights to take your business to the next level.

Come ready to engage in interactive workshops, hear from successful entrepreneurs, and participate in hands-on activities that will help you grow your business.

Don’t miss this opportunity to be a part of a vibrant community of entrepreneurs and innovators.

Space is limited so be sure to register today!

For more information: brownpreneurs.org or email, Christal Rogers at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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