17th Annual SPRING TO DANCE® Festival 2025 | May 23 & 24, 2025 | Fri & Sat | Doors open at 5:30pm
Touhill Performing Arts Center
The Midwest region’s most celebrated dance festival returns for the 17th 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!
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FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
5:30 p.m. – Doors open
6:15 p.m. – “Speaking of Dance” Q&A with representatives from mainstage companies (Terrace Lobby)
6:45 p.m. – Performances by St. Louis-area dance troupes & companies (Terrace Lobby)
7:30 p.m. – Mainstage performances (Anheuser-Busch Performance Hall)
FESTIVAL LINEUP
May 23 • Friday 7:30 p.m.
Earthen Image Movement (Kansas City, MO)
The DASH Ensemble (Dallas, TX)
Vitacca Ballet (Houston, TX)
- Intermission -
Water Street Dance Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI)
Ballet West — Katlyn Addison & Adrian Fry (Salt Lake City, UT)
DIAVOLO — Jennifer Olivas & Omar Olivas (Los Angeles, CA / Edwardsville, IL)
Eisenhower Dance Detroit (Detroit, MI)
May 24 • Saturday 7:30 p.m.
Aerial Dance Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Houston Contemporary Dance Company (Houston, TX)
Visceral Dance Chicago (Chicago, IL)
- Intermission -
Mutual Dance Theatre (Cincinnati, OH)
DIAVOLO — Jennifer Olivas & Omar Olivas (Los Angeles, CA / Edwardsville, IL)
Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater (Chicago, IL)
SINGLE TICKETS
(ON SALE NOW)
Single tickets: $15, $25, $35, $40
Festival 4-Packs (Buy 3, Get 1 Free): $45-$120
Tickets and 4-packs will be available for purchase through MetroTix starting January 2025.
“Successful both as a celebration of dance and as an invitation to bask in its artistry.”
“Arguably the best dance buffet in the Midwest”
“Of all the local Memorial Day weekend events, perhaps the most consistently exciting is… Spring to Dance Festival presented by Dance St. Louis.”
“Audiences flock to the performances—the price is right and the offerings are generous.”
RECENT FESTIVALS
16th Annual SPRING TO DANCE Festival® 2024
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15th Annual Emerson SPRING To DANCE Festival® 2023
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14th Annual Emerson SPRING TO DANCE® Festival 2022
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13th Annual Emerson SPRING TO DANCE® Festival 2021
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12th Annual Emerson SPRING TO DANCE® Festival 2019
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Touhill Performing Arts Center
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PHOTO CREDITS
Top Banner Photo: Eisenhower Dance Detroit. Photo by Allison Armfield.
Middle: DIAVOLO’s Jennifer Olivas and Omar Olivas. Photo by ProPhotoSTL.
24 / 25 Season Shows
Pilobolus. Photo by Joseph Mehling.
Pilobolus
“gods and goddesses of physical dance-theatre”
— WNPR News, Ed Weirzbicki
Ballet Folklórico de México
Ballet Folklórico de México
“A captivating spectacle… a brilliant visual and theatrical sense”
— New York Times
COLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE
Collage Dance Collective
“Ballet made utterly, gorgeously human.”
— Albany Times
