SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2026

OPENING SCREEN DANCE

Estimated Time of Departure by Lia Smith-Redmann

Choreographer: Lia Smith-Redmann (Milwaukee, WI)

Music: “Hot Rail” by Calexico, “Sleeper Train” by Ezéchiel Pailhes, “Les Racines du Reve” by Henry Torgue and Serge Houppin

Dancers: Calla Beverly, Elise Leonard, Madison Lower, Brooke Allison Parkinson

"Estimated Time of Departure" is a dance film and stage performance recognizing the many refugee crises and millions of forcibly displaced peoples in our world, and the many different journeys we each take to arrive at our current destination in life.

Lia Smith-Redmann is a Wisconsin-based dancer and choreographer. She studied dance and theatre throughout the Five College Consortium in Massachusetts and received her Bachelor’s in Dance and English from UW-Milwaukee. She is a Guest Choreographer for Fable Dance Company, an awardee of the Wisconsin Dance Council’s prestigious Emerging Artist Mentorship Program, and a collaborating artist with Hyperlocal MKE, the Catey Ott Dance Collective, and the Gina Laurenzi Dance Project. She is a two-time university dance research fellow and a recipient of the Slovenian Arts Award. She has trained with internationally acclaimed artists, notably Chan Ming Shu, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, and Ailey II, and performed the works of choreographers such as Alfonso Cervera (Primera Generación Dance), Maria Gillespie, Daniel Burkholder, Dan Schuchart (Wild Space Dance Company), and Ishmael Koney. Her work has been performed at the St. Louis Contemporary Dance Festival, West Michigan Dance Festival, Dance City Festival, Still Inspired Future Artists, American College Dance Association, and DanceworksMKE, among others.

ACT I

[I'll be logging my journey here] -- Delainey Bailey

Through the lens of the camera, we glimpse the exploration of a liminal space where worlds intersect and reality bends.

Choreographer: Delainey Bailey (St. Louis, MO)

Affiliation: MADCO

Music: “3ankaboot” by ZULI, “Aurelie (Lido Pimienta Remix)” by Lou Canon and Lido Pimienta, “1Dot.Zero” and “PPPtrcn” by Andy Box, “all and nothing” by lone call.

Dancers: Olivia Cesarano, Sidney Cowles, Annesley Haring, Gail Honeywell, Katherine Kennedy, Gabby Ray, Chloe Ryherd, Ryah Truss

Delainey Bailey is a St. Louis based professional dancer, teacher, and choreographer in her second season with MADCO! She graduated from Lindenwood University in May 2024 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance with a specialization in Contemporary and a minor in Dance Studio Management. Delainey teaches and choreographs for the competition team at On Your Toes Dance Studio, and choreographs for Weissman Dancewear Solutions. Delainey’s performance experience includes SET: The Legacy Concert, Hope Alive: Moving Stories, Madcracker Gala, Space Station Dance Residency, Dancers Making Moves Living Gallery, Detroit Dance City Festival, Water Street Dance Festival, American College Dance Association, National Dance Week, and Lindenwood’s Fall, Winter, and Spring Dance Concerts.

Dicy -- Paige Van Nest

Choreographer: Paige Van Nest (St. Louis, MO)

Music: Phillip Glass, Nils Frahm, The Animals, and Nina Simone

Dancers: Morgan Van Nest and Paige Van Nest

Paige Van Nest is originally from St. Louis, Missouri and began her training at Arts in Motion School of Dance. She graduated from Webster University in 2019 with a BFA in Modern Dance and a Certificate in Entrepreneurship. Her training outside of Webster University includes Nashville Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, The Big Muddy Dance Company, and MADCO. She is currently dancing with Leverage Dance Theater and teaches at M and M Dance Academy and Dance Center of Kirkwood. Additionally, she trains dancers at Sports Medicine and Training Center and is a production assistant for Space Station Dance Residency.

Ceaseless -- Jorrell Lawyer-Jefferson

Choreographer: Jorrell Lawyer-Jefferson (St. Louis, MO)

Music: “Agape” by Nicholas Britell

Dancer: Dave McCall

Jorrell Lawyer-Jefferson is an interdisciplinary movement artist who holds his BA in Music and MFA in Dance with an emphasis in Choreography from Sam Houston State University. His choreography offers immersive, atmospheric experiences that span contemporary dance and operatic productions. As a performer, Jorrell has worked with renowned choreographers including Jessica Lang, Tommie-Waheed Evans, Kirven Douthit-Boyd, Omar Román De Jesús, and Norbert De La Cruz III, experiences that continue to shape his choreographic approach and movement vocabulary. Jorrell’s background in music and athletics have shaped his movement practice, facilitating constant refinement of his choreographic voice through curiosity (externally and introspectively), self discovery and a blending of his lived experience and his ever rolling imagination. As a young choreographer, he takes in a multitude of media to enrich his practice daily, allowing the worlds of art, philosophy and human experience to shape his work for viewers and performers.

This Version of You -- Kaley Pruitt

This work follows a couple through the private space of trauma surrounding miscarriage.

Choreographer: Kaley Pruitt (Rochester, NY)

Affiliation: Kaley Pruitt Dance, SUNY Brockport

Music: “Half Light of Dawn” by Abul Mogard and text by Kaley Pruitt based off lyrics by ODESZA & Julianna Barwick

Dancers: Rachel Greene and Patrick Marquice Ingram

Kaley Pruitt is a performer, choreographer, and Assistant Professor of Dance at SUNY Brockport. She has created over 35 works and been commissioned by Repertory Dance Theatre, Wasatch Contemporary Dance, Fem Dance, Idaho Dance Theatre, Steffi Nossen Dance, Society for New Music, Simantikos Dance Chicago, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, and Illinois State University. Select presentations: NYS DanceForce, Terpsichore Collective, St. Louis Contemporary Dance Festival /Resilience Dance, Green Space, MADCO Dare to Dance, Rochester Fringe, Austin Dance Festival, ACDA National Conference, Mark DeGarmo, Milwaukee Fringe, WIM Dance Festival, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Dixon Place Theater, Triskelion Arts, Chez Bushwick and Center for Performance Research, Built on Stilts Martha’s Vineyard, Secret Theater, Ketchum Arts Commission, and Movement Research. www.kaleypruittdance.com @kaleypruittdance

The destruction of Neptune -- Katie Carey, Alluvion Dance Chicago

Neptune is the planet of imagination, compassion, cosmic unity, illusion, deception and escapism.Neptune represents the part of us that fuses, adapts, mirrors and seeks union with others. Neptune wants to merge with something greater than itself. In this world, falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen, room for grief, for relief, for misery.

Choreographer: Katie Carey (Chicago, IL)

Affiliation: Alluvion Dance

Music: Score edited by Katie Carey; “Hollowing” by Colin Stetson, “Gifted” by Cristobal Tapia De Veer, “Why We Had To Leave” by Yair Elazar Glotman, “Asking To Break” by James Blake, “The Universal End” by Jóhann Jóhannsson

Dancers: Ryan Dick, Abigail Merkos, Nell Ritchey, and Kristen Whalen

Alluvion Dance Chicago is a contemporary company dedicated to building a community of dancers and choreographers. We are committed to the growth and development of up and coming artists through movement, performance, and the opportunity to develop original choreography. Alluvion Dance Chicago will hold two shows this season: one where the company performs work by the company directors and guest artists and a second, where the dancers choreograph on each other.

ACT II

I have no mouth and I must scream -- Olivia Cesarano

Choreographer: Olivia Cesarano (St. Louis, MO)

Affiliation: MADCO

Dancers: Delainey Bailey, Cassie Callahan, Sidney Cowles, Logan Guerra, Gail Honeywell, Chloe Ryherd

Olivia Cesarano is a dance artist based in St. Louis. She was born and grew up in Arizona training at Tempe Dance Academy, and attended the University of Arizona’s dance program for two years. She then joined a small company in Vancouver, BC named Lamon Dance. She also worked in 2023 alongside Dance Novella as an emerging artist. She recently attended the Nuova X and NOD ICD programs in Turin, Italy. She has worked with artists from around the world including NDT, Batsheva, Kidd Pivot, Gothenburg Ballet, and many others. Her long term goal is to become an artistic director for either an established or my own professional dance company.

If I Could Write a Love Poem, I Would -- Alexandria Kinard

This duet was a collaborative project created with the talented writer Mika Tuzon. The piece explores the duality of love and the complexity of yearning for someone or something beyond reach. Love can be tender, chaotic, or even filled with anger. The duet invites audiences to interpret the story through their own lens, choosing their own emotional journey. You might follow the dancer who finds calm and solace in her yearning, or the one who responds with anger and frustration. Both emotions coexist within a single soul, and this work beautifully captures that internal tension. This duet doesn't exist as two people having a conversation or relationship on stage, but as two emotions of one person.

Choreographer: Alexandria Kinard (Chicago, IL)

Poem by Mika Tuzon

Music: “Encomium” by Nicholas Britell, “Nothing Can Change This Love” by Sam Cooke

Dancers: Andrea Moses, Jocelyn Scullion

Alexandria Kinard is a dancer, choreographer, and dance educator based in Chicago, IL. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professionally, Alex performs with Red Clay Dance Company. Her choreographic work is deeply rooted in her personal identity, which informs both her movement vocabulary and creative process. She has had the privilege of touring her solo piece Reverence to Nita at several notable events, including the Links Hall Alumni Showcase (Chicago, IL), Inspire Dance Festival (Milwaukee, WI), Womankind Choreography Festival (Salt Lake City, UT), and the St. Louis Contemporary Dance Festival (St. Louis, MO). In March 2025, Alex received her first commission to set a work on Simantikos Dance Company in Chicago. Following the success of her piece If I Could Write a Love Letter, I Would, she was invited to create another commissioned work for the company’s upcoming season. Her new piece is set to premiere in December 2025.

MAREO -- Tess Losada-Tindall

What does it mean to grieve the loss of a place you have never been?
What does it mean to carry one’s homeland on one’s back?
What does it mean to plant seeds, and grow roots in a new place?
What does it mean to pray at the altar of your dreams?
What, then, would it mean, to die dreaming?

Choreographer: Tess Angélica Losada-Tindall (St. Louis, MO)

Music: Flor by Gabriel Garzón-Montano, Fleur by Gabriel Garzón-Montano (edited and arranged by Tess Angélica Losada-Tindall)

Dancers: Tess Angélica Losada-Tindall

Tess Angelica Losada-Tindall is a Cuban-American choreographer, and scholar who holds an MFA in Dance from WashU in St. Louis. Her work considers exile, cultural straddling, and diasporic grief, and has been performed nationally and internationally, most recently at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, in Washington, D.C., and in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Tess is an adjunct professor in the Dance departments at Lindenwood University and Webster University, as well as the Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University.

TAG -- Olivia Emert

TAG is a playful western landscape of dance. These cowboys represent the loss of play in adulthood, expectations which force us to lose our childlike sense of play. They find camaraderie, humor, and joy. Going back to a time when we ducked between neighbors houses and running through the backyards hoping not to get caught in the most intense and high spirited game of touch and go.

Choreographer: Olivia Emert (Kansas City, MO)

Affiliation: CLOUDS Dance Company

Music: "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" Nancy Sinatra, "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly- 2004 Remastered" by Ennio Morricone, and "At The Ranch" by Jacob Korn

Dancers: Anna Boehm, Amiyah Torres, Regina Lombardo

Olivia Emert (she/her) is a Kansas City based choreographer and artistic director. Emert’s choreography has been commissioned by Kansas City Ballet, Lindenwood University, Creative Intersections with Owen/Cox Dance Group, Art in the Loop, KCPublic Theater, City in Motion Dance Theater, NoDivide, Charlotte Street, and more. Notably, Emert was jury-selected as featured artist with the Making Moves series, which funded and supported her evening length work, WOMB.DIRT.SKY. Founded in 2024, Emert hosts FLOW, a professional movement class highlighting somatic awareness, release-based floorwork, and contemporary phrase work. In 2025, Emert took over the role as artistic director of Creative Intersections after choreographing for the program for three years. After being awarded a two year residency with Charlotte Street, Emert founded CLOUDS Dance Company: a project based dance company composed of performances, collaborations, and training spaces. More information on cloud sightings can be found at www.oliviaemert.com / www.cloudsdancecompany.com

I'm Coming Up For Air, Are You Around? -- Erin Morris + Elinor Harrison

This work is the result of a firehose flow of wildness, willfulness, and witness. It's ok to laugh. It's ok to cry. If you're around.

Choreographers: Elinor Harrison and Erin Morris (St. Louis, MO)

Dancers: Elinor Harrison and Erin Morris

Erin and Ellie have been talking about making a piece for a while, mostly over long phone calls from minivans and closets. They leave texts unread and apologize in person. Their Spotify wrapped listening age is collectively 187 years old. They love chunky boots and can never find the right pants. They hope you enjoy this piece. For more: erinmorrisjazz.com and elinorharrison.com.

But, What Happened to the Art? -- Baylee McAllister

A story about the dilution of detail and emotion in society. How lack of art connection leads to a lesser understanding of the human soul.

Choreographer: Baylee McAllister (St. Louis, MO)

Music: “miro” feat. Ted Jasper by berlioz, “b1” by Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm, “Dividing Space” by Murcof

Dancers: Annesley Haring, Bella Schmitt, Gail Honeywell, Hayley Barker, Julia Dawson, Julia Lucarelli, Lillian Berry, Logan Guerra

Baylee McAllister (She/Her) was born and raised in Fishers, Indiana. She graduated with highest distinction from Indiana University and received her B.F.A. in Contemporary Dance and Minor in Arts Management in the Spring of 2024. Baylee has performed in works by DaEun Jung, Elizabeth Shea, Justin Sears-Watson, Stafford C. Berry Jr., Maya Orchin, Stefanie Nelson, and Selene B. Carter during her time at Indiana University. She is a proud recipient and first place winner of the Molly Parsley Festival of Creativity Award for her choreographic work, ‘Chasing Rabbits’ (2022) set at Indiana University.

Baylee studied dance in Paris, France and has furthered her abroad studies in Berlin and Amsterdam, working with astounding dance professionals: Wanjiru Kamuyu, LaMichael Leonard, Clint Lutes, Heidi Weiss, Nathalie Pubellier, Maurice Causey, and Michael Foley. She attended programs with Boston Ballet School, Eisenhower Dance Detroit, SALT Contemporary Dance, and interned with Dance Kaleidoscope in Indianapolis, IN. She has performed at Waterstreet Dance Festival, Indy Dance Festival, Dumbo Dance Dance Festival at Mark Morris Dance Center, Space Station Dance Residency, SALT LINK Festival, We Call it Ballet at the Touhill, SEEN: STL by Resilience Dance Company, and with St. Louis Dance Theatre as a trainee performing works by Joshua L. Peugh, Avree Walker and Peyton Bellman, Maddy Bailey, Logan Guerra Hui Cha, Poos, Brandon Fink, Mady Buerck, and Carly Vanderheyden. Baylee is currently living in St. Louis, Missouri where she is a teaching artist, a choreographer for Weissman, and a freelance dancer.

ACT III

PITS -- Will Brighton + CJ Burroughs

Choreographer: Will Brighton and CJ Burroughs (St. Louis, MO)

Music: Waltz in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 64, No. 2 (Arranged by Chad Lawson, performed by Chad Lawson, Judy Kang, and Rubin Kodheli)

Dancers: Will Brighton and CJ Burroughs

Special thanks to Sergio Camacho

Will Brighton is a dancer, choreographer, and writer based in St. Louis, MO. He grew up in Ann Arbor, MI and graduated summa cum laude from Western Michigan University with a B.F.A. in Dance and a B.A. in English. While at WMU, Will performed works by Yin Yue, Christian Denice, BAIRA, George Balanchine, Paul Taylor, Antony Tudor, and others, and performed alongside Peridance Contemporary Dance Company. Will is currently in his sixth season with Saint Louis Dance Theatre, where he has performed repertory by Jiří Kylián, Johan Inger, Sidra Bell, Omar Román de Jesús, Norbert de la Cruz III, Joshua Peugh, and more. He has also performed as a guest artist with Saint Louis Ballet and MADCO, as well as in collaborations with Jazz St. Louis, the Pulitzer Arts Museum, and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Will was named an Emerging Choreographer by Young Dancers Initiative in 2020 and by Eisenhower Dance Detroit’s NewDANCEfest in 2021. His work has been commissioned by Resilience Dance Company and Space Station Dance Residency, and presented at festivals including the Saint Louis Contemporary Dance Festival, MADCO’s Dare to Dance Festival, Modern Night at the Gem, and RADFest. His writing credits include contributions for Saint Louis Dance HQ and short plays commissioned by Queer Theatre Kalamazoo and the Kalamazoo Short Play Festival.

CJ Burroughs (Raleigh, NC) received her BFA from University of Michigan and graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts high school program. Her performance career began with Ron De Jesus Dance, Marc Macaranas' DISASTERdance, Thodos Dance Chicago, and Saint Louis Dance Theatre’s trainee program. CJ then joined Saint Louis Dance Theatre, formerly The Big Muddy Dance Company, and danced for seven seasons, performing in lead roles and working with dozens of diverse choreographers. CJ now freelances as a guest artist and choreographer, performing most recently with Tandem Dance in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and with Los Angeles Dance Project in Benjamin Millepied’s Romeo and Juliet, which toured to the Dubai Opera House. Her choreography was featured in WAXworks, Arts United STL, Amalgamate Dance Festival, a DAVi Music video, and Tree9’s Emmy-winning film, Raising Spirits. And she was commissioned to create work on Saint Louis Dance Theatre, Columbus Modern Dance Company (CoMo), and The Modern American Dance Company (MADCO). CJ is thrilled to collaborate with Will Brighton this year in MADCO’s Dare to Dance!

Show Pony -- Liz Westbrook

Choreographer: Liz Westbrook (New York, NY)

Music: Sound Composition by JP Davis

Dancers: Benin Gardner, Yang Sun, Jack Meriwether

Liz Westbrook is a movement artist and choreographer based in New York City. She attended the University of the Arts and Bennington College for Movement and Dance Composition. She also holds a certification in Contemporary Dance from Gibney. She’s performed in works by Nadine Gerspacher, Grant Jacoby, Laura Sanchez, Bill T. Jones, Natalia Fernández, Caroline Frank, Yang Sun. Her original work has been shown at Moulin/Belle, Junction Dance Festival, 7MPR, MADCO Dance, Creature Space and The Foundry Boston. To make dance is to build a world. More at lizwestbrook.com.

Introspection -- Kyra Laster, Hot Crowd

Introspection turns the gaze inward, inviting us to look closely at ourselves and the world we move within. It asks us to examine the distance between who we are, who we appear to be, and who we are becoming.

Choreographer: Kyra Laster (Chicago, IL)

Affiliation: Hot Crowd

Music: “Over”, “Awake” and “Completely Gone” by Emptyset

Dancers: Gabriela Chauta, Terra Fiedler, Ariana Fonzo, Lauren Janney, Anna Labriola, Devon Lloyd, and Josephine Starr

About Kyra Laster:
Kyra Laster is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher based in Chicago, Illinois. She is a graduate of Western Michigan University where she received a BFA in Dance and a BBA in Marketing. During her time at WMU, Kyra participated in numerous Department of Dance concerts where she performed works choreographed by faculty, peers, and guest artists BAIRA and Mike Esperanza. In 2019, she became the Artistic Director of Hip Hop ConnXion Michigan, a branch of the professional hip hop company based in Chicago. Kyra currently is a company member with Hot Crowd and Dance In The Parks in addition to being Studio Manager American Dance Center and Program Manager for Dance City Festival.

About the company:
Hot Crowd is a 501(c)3 non for profit Chicago-based modern dance company whose goal is to stimulate and inspire dancers and non-dancers alike through innovative movement, community interaction and accessibility to strengthen and spread the art of modern dance throughout the Chicagoland area and beyond. Since its inception (2017), Hot Crowd has been invited to perform in several major cities throughout the U.S. including Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit and St. Louis as well as out of the country in Seoul, South Korea. Hot Crowd recently performed in Puerto Rico for the ATLAS Contemporary Dance Congress. Hot Crowd produced eleven self-produced shows and two professional dance for films. Other programming includes dance workshops, residencies, pay what you can community dance classes, & collaborative events with other local artists and businesses. Hot Crowd is currently in their 9th Season under the direction of Devon Lloyd & Brittany Latta McMahon.

ORI -- Jaruam Xavier

Choreographer: Jaruam Xavier (Lewisberg, PA)

Affiliation: Bucknell University

Music: “O Berimbau” by Naná Vasconcelos

Dancers: Jaruam Xavier

Jaruam Xavier holds a master's degree in dance from the University of Iowa (USA), specializing in choreography. With extensive international dance experience, he has performed in multiple countries and collaborated with renowned companies such as the São Paulo City Ballet, São Paulo Dance Company, and Guaíra Theatre Ballet. As a dance researcher, he investigates anthropophagic body formation as a framework to analyze the assimilation of knowledge through dance techniques and cultural hybridity. His studies are influenced by Candomblé, Capoeira, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Currently, Jaruam serves as a professor at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, United States.

Resonant Traces -- Lorraine Stippec

This piece grows out of my thesis concert research, which examines how rhythm, memory, and embodied communication contribute to healing and resilience not only in the aftermath of trauma, but as preventative modality to. Originally conceived as a solo exploring dance/movement therapy and tap dance as embodied archives of lived experience, this section has been reimagined as a duet to further investigate relational dynamics and shared processing onstage. Reworking this piece as a duet allowed the choreography to expand beyond individual expression and include more concepts of the larger work which includes different genres of dance; this collaboration highlights how two movement vocabularies (tap and house) can dialogue, diverge, and converge to illuminate the body’s capacity for connection. The structure invites the audience to witness each dancer’s distinct rhythmic and expressive identity before revealing the points where our movement worlds intertwine. Some portions of the piece are improvised, allowing for spontaneous resonance and unplanned moments of synchronicity that deepen the thematic inquiry of this work. Special thanks to Ashley Taylor for her creative input.

Choreographer: Lorraine Stippec (St. Louis, MO)

Affiliation: Washington University in St. Louis, MFA in Dance

Music: In a Dream by Mark Pinkus, edited by Lorraine “Rain” Stippec

Dancers: Lorraine “Rain” Stippec, Ashley Taylor

Lorraine “Rain” Stippec earned her BFA from Webster University - graduating Magna Cum Laude with Leigh Gerdine College of Fine Arts Department Honors. Throughout her life, Rain followed her passion for dance around the globe performing, teaching, and choreographing for community and professional theatre productions, dance on film, fundraisers, studios, collegiate concerts, companies and so much more! She has trained with and performed works by many renowned tap artists such as Anthony Russo, Mike Minery, Martin “Tre” Dumas III, Heather Brown, Sean Kaminski, Chris Rutledge, Tommy Wasiuta and Jan (Feager) Cosby to name a few. In 2017, Rain became a victim of a random act of gun violence and since surviving to tell the tale of her recovery has returned to the stage performing for EKHO Entertainment, CommUNITY Arts StL, and Angel Band Project. Along with podcast, radio and local network appearances, she has been a keynote speaker for numerous events - appearing on Facebook Watch’s Red Table Talk interviewed by Jada Pinkett-Smith and a national commercial for The CW Network. Rain continues to pursue a motivational speaking career in conjunction with teaching and choreographing for choreographing across the country. Rain cherishes her work with moSTLy TAP under STL Rhythm Collaborative, which has performed from Chicago to New York City being recognized by Dance Magazine’s Top 25 to Watch (2023). While performing with the company, she created educational and performance opportunities by directing the PreProfessional Student Ensemble Program for STLRC. Rain is currently attending Washington University working towards a MFA in Dance (anticipated May 2026).

KLUB -- Logan Guerra

Choreographer: Logan Guerra (St. Louis, MO)

Affiliation: MADCO, Pack Dance

Dancers: Delainey Bailey, Olivia Cesarano, Sidney Cowles, Annesley Haring, Daryon Kent, Baylee McAllister, Gabby Ray, Chloe Ryherd, Ryah Truss

Logan earned a BFA in contemporary dance from Lindenwood University, where he was also a proud member of the Lionettes dance team—Division II jazz national champions in 2021–22. He has trained in contemporary, ballet, jazz, hip-hop, aerial, and tap at Lindenwood and through the Alma Dance Program in his hometown of Alma, Arkansas. Logan was a company artist with Consuming Kinetics Dance Company in St. Louis during the 2022–23 season, performing, choreographing, and teaching. He also trained at intensives like the Water Street Dance Festival (Milwaukee) and Hot Crowd (Chicago). Most recently, he was a trainee with Saint Louis Dance Theater for the 2023–24 season, performing and choreographing for their main stage productions. Logan is currently a company artist with Pack Dance and an apprentice with MADCO where he both choreographs and performs.

DARE TO CONNECT

MADCO TEAM

Artistic Director - Arianna Russ
Education Director - Katherine Kennedy
Artistic Consultant + Photographer - Carly Vanderheyden
Photographer - Sidney Cowles
Videographer - Dancing Fox Pictures
Lighting Designer - Danny McLaughlin

Thank you Zach Metalsky, Justin Foster, Sean Carroll, and COCA for your support in bringing Dare to Dance to life on the Catherine B. Berges stage.