Sacred Vessels is the final installment in their series of intimate concerts, celebrating the human spirit.  Join Common Thread Contemporary Dance Company for an evening of dance that will awaken your heart, mind, and soul.  Performances are at Dance Project Saint Louis at 7:30 pm on Friday, May 11th and Saturday, May 12th.  Tickets are available through Brown Paper Tickets.

Spring to Dance Festival has become the premier dance event in St. Louis, and we are proud to announce that Common Thread will be a part of the 2012 Festival at the Touhill Performing Arts Center in May of 2012.  The festival runs from May 24th through 26th and features dance companies not just from the Midwest, but from all over the United States.  Tickets are available now!

Just announced! New Dance Horizons presented by Dance St. Louis!  It’s a concentrated hit of brand new dance, as Dance St. Louis commissions a quartet of renowned choreographers from around the nation to collaborate with St. Louis companies to create clever and moving world premieres. Saint Louis Ballet, aTrek Dance Collective, MADCO, and Common Thread Contemporary Dance Company team up with the witty and subversive Victoria Marks, musical and expressive Jessica Lang, ironic post-modernist Pamela Tanowitz, and thought-provoking ballet artist Gina Patterson. The production will then tour to five neighboring presenters in Missouri and Illinois. This bold new step for Dance St. Louis will give you even more new dance to enjoy—and we hope it will become an annual celebration! Performances are Friday, October 5th at 8:00 pm and Saturday, October 6th at 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm at the Touhill.

Summer Classes–Join Common Thread Contemporary Dance Company at Dance Project Saint Louis for affordable and uplifting dance classes this summer.  Our daily classes in Ballet and Modern dance are open to High School and College-age dancers as well as professionals, and provide a positive, confidence-building class experience.

Your first trial class is free.  If you wish to take class every day, you can enjoy five classes per week for the low cost of $5.00 per class.  If you’re more “on-the-go” and can only drop in as it fits your schedule, you will still find Common Thread classes affordable at $10.00 per class.

Summer Workshop–It is with much excitement that we announce our 4th annual summer dance workshop in St. Louis, MO, bringing like minded artists together to dance all day in the spirit of Peace, Love, and Joy. Summer Intensives can be quite expensive and it’s the mission of Common Thread and Jennifer Medina to make sure that Dance students can get the best dance training and a summer intensive experience without paying thousands of dollars!

This two-week workshop is an intensive experience in many dance forms including Ballet, Contemporary, Graham, Improvisation, Yoga, and Choreography. Classes will be held from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday in our spacious studio at the intersection of Highways 141 and 44 in Fenton/Valley Park.

For more information, please visit www.commonthreaddance.com.

We will accept credit and debit cards for secure payments on tuition, registration, and costumes.  Thank you!

“Psalms, Canticles, and Love Songs” gives St. Louis audiences a unique opportunity to hear a live performance of Handel’s virtuoso setting of Psalm 110, “Dixit Dominus.” Handel’s earliest surviving choral work was written in his first sojourn to Italy as a young man. His mastery of the Italian Baroque string style, a hallmark of Handel’s writing, is evident in this outstanding nine movement work for chorus, soloists, and string orchestra. Also on this program are Randall Thompson’s beautiful “The Lord Is My Shepherd” and John Rutter’s lyrical setting of Psalm 128, “Wedding Canticle.” Eric Whitacre’s “Five Hebrew Love Songs” are settings of poems by Hila Plittmann. Ms. Plittmann, now the wife of Mr. Whitacre, was his fiance at the time these poems were written.

We feel very blessed to be part of such a beautiful, special event, and are grateful to the American Chamber Chorale for this opportunity.  We hope you can join us!

It’s a very accessible, sweet, and touching opera, wonderful for adults and children alike!

Aaron Burlbaw, Guest Musician–We are happy to announce the return of Aaron Burlbaw to “The Endless Forest Nutcracker.” Aaron will provide pre-show entertainment and offer his CDs for sale–we’re thrilled to have his beautiful music as part of our show again this year!

“Spanish Guitars and Percussive Grooves” tends to be the realm for guitarist Aaron Burlbaw. With Burlbaw’s Nuevo-flamenco (non-traditional flamenco) techniques, he delivers a Spanish and Latin blend of music, while also fusing elements from Jazz and Rock. Burlbaw has been performing for 13 years in the Midwest area. He fronts his all-instrumental Latin Jazz group Acoustik Element and supports Autumns Child and Farshid Etniko with their “world music” ensembles. Last December Burlbaw produced Acoustik Element’s 16 song Christmas CD which takes the audience on a holiday ride with sounds of the Spanish guitar. For more information please visit www.AcoustikElement.com.

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