We welcome Intermediate and Advanced Dancers age 13 and over for a seven day long intensive exploring dance styles not covered in other St. Louis intensives, as well as professional development for performing artists. Dance History, Partnering, Improvisation, Hip Hop, Duncan, Composition, Self-Development and more! Click below to register for only $25, tuition is due on the first day of the intensive.

For our 15th birthday, Consuming Kinetics Dance Company officially becomes Pack Dance!

The Pack’s 2024 spring dance concert questions the disparity in the way men and women experience the world. Tickets are available on MetrTix. Woman was made possible thanks to generous support from The Regional Arts Council, The Missouri Arts Council and Mid America Arts Alliance. Featuring guest choreography by Jenny Dyson, Jessy Dyson, Lexi Lewis and Olivia Perez. Also featuring choreography by former Artistic Director, Ashreale McDowell as well as a dozen other guest artists.

Take a break from it all and relax with our short holiday-inspired dance concert choregraphed by CKDC Company Artists and performed by students of CKDC.

Join us at the Anheuser-Busch Brewery Lights through December 30, 2023! CKDC performing artists are The Merry Makers! Guests are invited to stroll down Pestalozzi Street to marvel as the brewery is turned into a remarkable holiday experience with something for everyone. The Merry Makers are the official “cheer-masters” of The Brewery Lights. Dance performances, Peppermint Twists and selfies will keep sprits bright! Interact with the Merry Makers throughout the evening or see them on stage at 6:30p.m. and 8:30p.m. for the performance of Yule Groove! Pour a glass of holiday brew and witness the antics of the Merry Makers Crew! Yule Groove is produced by Cole Finney Creative Design and Conceptualized by Blue Flamingos, An Idea Company. Staged Concert is choreographed by Anthony Bady, Cyrus Coble, Melissa Miller, Olivia Perez, Samantha Madison, Theron Steele with Artistic Direction by Desiree Lambert, Arica Nyamsi and Olivia Perez. Parade is choreographed by Samantha Madison. Creative Collaborations provided by every performing artist, credited below.

Featuring Theron Steele as Kringle
Anthony Bady as B-Right
Olivia Perez as Tinsel
Cyrus Coble as Bob
Kyla Kikkawa and Arica Nyamsi as Jolly
Melissa Miller, Samantha Madison and Lexi Lewis as Joy
Renee Austin, Samantha Madison and Carly Lucas as Jinglez
Erika Perkins, Carly Lucas, Samantha Madison and Sydney Neal as Snowflake

Join us for Summer Camp 2023 Monday, July 24 - Friday, August 4! Each week has a different dance and movement theme and both weeks are packed with STEAM learning opportunities for students as well as outdoor and social time! If you’re looking for an all day program, CKDC’s 9:00a.m. - 5:00p.m. camp is for you! Early drop off and late pick up available, learn more by clicking below!

CKDC students unleash their energy in this student dance concert on May 5, 6 and 7! While our dance concerts are reserved for immediate friends and family of our students, prospective students and their families may also attend! For more information, email us at info@ckdc.org.

Tickets $30

The Gun Violence Archive has counted at nearly 700 mass shootings in 2022 and the United States has more mass shootings than any other country. Some studies indicate that the rate at which public mass shootings occur has tripled since 2011, leaving us desensitized. CKDC’s spring concert questions some of the contributing factors to this plague on our country including high access to guns, low access to mental health as well as sociocultural factors. Join us for a sobering, but important discussion through movement this spring.

Tickets $30

French Connection explores the life and artistry of Josephine Baker and gives a nod to St. Louis’s French foundings. Featuring new choreography by Artistic Director Arica Nyamsi as well as Company Artists Callie Bratsch, Leah Fry, Carly Lucas and Mary Meo with special guest performance by local performing artists Markesha Howlett, Amrian Johnson and Mel McCray.

Friday, May 6 at 8:00p.m. (all students except Tiny Dancers) 

Saturday, May 7 at 11:00a.m. (Tiny Dancers only) 

Saturday, May 7 at 6:00p.m. ALL STUDENTS

Sunday, May 8 at noon ALL STUDENTS

The Saturday 11:00a.m. is the only concert time that allows time for our Tiny Dancers to be photographed in costume, so all performers should attend.

Take Arica’s Contemporary class any Tuesday in January and post your video on Instagram or Facebook with the following credits.

• Credit choreography by Arica brown

• Tag Consuming Kinetics Dance Company

• Use hashtag #CKDCStudioToStage

Videos are judged by a panel of CKDC artists and one lucky winner will be invited to perform with the company in our spring dance concert.

Consuming Kinetics Dance Company’s (CKDC) fall 2021 concert, [R]evolution, centers themes of justice and power, and offers a vision for a more just and humxne future. In [R]evolution, we explore topics including human trafficking, the black experience, capitalism, voting rights, gender equity, and mental health access. Our choreographers and artists investigate many of the challenges we face in our society today and use movement and performance to generate dialogue and action to address these systemic issues. [R]evolution was originally scheduled in the weeks prior to the 2020 national presidential election; through this performance, we hope to not only inspire electoral action, but to support broader activist efforts to dismantle the systems of oppression we live in, including racism, white supremacy, capitalism, heteropatriarchy, xenophobia, sexism, and ableism.

[R]evolution premieres at The Marcelle November 20 - 21, 2021. Tickets are available at MetroTix.

CKDC is proud to be a Kranzberg Arts Foundation Resident Company.

Join CKDC from November 3 - 6 at Tapped to help raise funds to support the production of CKDC’s upcoming fall dance concert, [R]evolution.

ADDRESS:

Tapped
7278 Manchester Rd.
Maplewood, MO 63143

HOURS:

Wednesday-Thursday | 5:00-10:00PM
Friday-Saturday | 5:00-11:00PM

100% of tips support CKDC's mission to make dance accessible to all and expose the healing art of movement in our communities! Learn more about CKDC at ckdc.org/about.

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