Arts Organizations
African Musical Arts, Inc.
The African Musical Arts, Inc. (AMAInc), formerly African Chorus, was founded to foster a better understanding of Africa’s cultures through the musical arts. What began shortly before 1994 as a mission to showcase African choral composers through a small performing ensemble has expanded to a commitment to meet a larger audience desirous of new modes of artistic expression, entertainment and cross-cultural enrichment. Thus, African Musical Arts, Inc comfortably assumed the niche to present African-descent composers of choral music - both traditional and contemporary, as well as disciplined art (or classical) chamber music and orchestra works that collectively portray the rich diversity of Africa's musical arts and cultures.
aTrek Dance Collective
The aTrek Dance Collective is a not for profit organization of St. Louis based dance artists dedicated to the development of local contemporary modern dance programs. Our primary activities include creating opportunities for advanced training and development of dance artists and presentation of their work. aTrek offers community based activities including master classes, workshops, school residencies, and performances. We promote the values of artistic expression, physical awareness, and cultural diversity through dance. The Dance Collective serves school children, pre-professional dancers and adult audiences in St. Louis, Missouri and surrounding areas.
Bach Society of Saint Louis
The Bach Society of Saint Louis is an organization dedicated to performing choral works by Johann Sebastian Bach and other classical and contemporary composers. Under the direction of Dr. A. Dennis Sparger, the Society delivers a varied and exciting season to an ever more diverse public. The mission of Bach Society is to perform the choral music of Johann Sebastian Bach and other composers in a wide range of concerts, educational, and outreach programs designed to educate, entertain, and enrich the lives of the people in the St. Louis region.
Cinema St. Louis
Cinema St. Louis promotes the art of cinema and expands the variety and availability of cinema experiences by presenting the St. Louis International Film Festival, screenings, programs, and educational opportunities.
Circus Flora
Circus Flora was a hit from the very beginning. Not content with a traditional circus, Balding set out to create a new formula - weaving separate acts together by the common thread of an engaging storyline. Original, live music and a narrative frame the acts, bringing animals and people together in a unique celebration of life. By integrating classic traditions of the circus with theater techniques, an ensemble cast and a storyline, Circus Flora produces mesmerizing shows that consistently deliver wonder and amazement to audience members of all ages. The ensemble company mixes the best of world-class, family-based circus knowledge, passed down from generation to generation, with actors, dancers, musicians and animals, as well as performers from the new circus street and vaudeville movements. The artistry, magic and charm of Circus Flora's performances have made it part of the vanguard of the "new circus" movement in North America.
Dance St. Louis
Dance St. Louis has been bringing the great dance of the world to St. Louis audiences for 44 years. In 1966, a small group of dance enthusiasts headed by Washington University professor of dance Annelise Mertz began meeting in each other's living rooms to figure out how to enable St. Louisans to enjoy more modern dance performances. From these informal gatherings and an operating budget of just $11,000, Dance St. Louis has burgeoned into one of the cultural treasures of St. Louis.
Gateway Men's Chorus
Because music moves hearts and minds, Gateway Men’s Chorus sings to affirm the gay experience and promote a culture of diversity and acceptance. Their vision is to open ears that would otherwise be closed to their message, create a community that loves unconditionally, and to proclaim to the world that a voice like theirs can never be silenced.
HotCity Theatre
HotCity Theatre produces contemporary, issue-oriented works of theatre that challenge and inspire St. Louis area audiences. HotCity also develops new theatrical works, encourages diversity, and through educational outreach nurtures a life-long passion for theatre. A theatre experience at HotCity is very casual, fun, unpredictable, and extremely high quality due to the dedication of artists in the company, most who work within one of the many presitgious university theatre departments in the region and are attracted to the types of scripts we produce.
Jazz St. Louis
While many of you are familiar with Jazz St. Louis’ award winning concert series, Jazz at the Bistro, you may not realize that they also have an extensive portfolio of education programs aimed at elementary, middle and high school students in the greater St. Louis area! Since 2000, more than 90,000 of these students have participated in Jazz St. Louis’ educational programming.
Muddy Waters Theatre Company
Muddy Water Theatres have committed their selves to educating audiences and artists, appreciating the assets that theatre has to offer, and fostering the voices of innovative, imaginative, contemporary, diverse playwrights while respecting the roots of its history. MWTC provides a base for professional performers, writers, technicians, and other artists for performance opportunities, education, and outreach opportunities. MWTC sees this art form as an opportunity to give something back to the community and the society we live in, to provide educational opportunities with the skills we have as artists and professionals, and to provide an opportunity for the aggrandizement of all.
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River Styx Literary Magazine
River Styx began in the early 1970's when a group of poets and musicians began reading and jamming together in various St. Louis apartments. The first issue of River Styx Magazine, printed on a lithographic press and hand-collated, hit the streets a few years later in 1975. Both the magazine and the readings were characterized by energy, accessibility, humor, wit and a spirit of inclusiveness. That playful yet dedicated spirit survives today.
St. Louis Shakespeare
St. Louis Shakespeare is dedicated to producing Shakespeare’s entire canon. To date, the Company has presented more than three quarters of the Bard's plays, including such seldom-seen works as TROILUS & CRESSIDA, KING JOHN, WINTER’S TALE and TITUS ANDRONICUS; SLS closed its 24th season with the Midwest premiere of EDWARD III. Additionally, SLS presents the works of other classical playwrights such as Aristophanes, Euripides, Feydeau, Oscar Wilde, Sheridan, Moliere, Shaw and 20th century classics by playwrights such as Arthur Miller and Tom Stoppard.
St. Louis Symphony
St. Louis Symphony is an integral part of the community, sharing the gift of music with tens of thousands of people in schools, churches, parks, community organizations and other venues throughout the region. Over 250 free events are held each year. Every event with an Orchestra musician or staff member and a member of The St. Louis Symphony community is an opportunity to educate - from explaining the difference between the violin and the viola, to changing the misperceptions about who is welcome and how an audience member must be dressed to attend a Symphony concert.
The Black Rep
The Black Rep is the nation's largest, professional African-American theatre company, providing platforms for acting and interpretation of theatre from the African-American perspective for audiences across the nation.. The company was established in 1976 by Ron Himes, then a student at Washington University in St. Louis, as the Phoenix Theatre Troupe. The mission of The Black Rep is to provide platforms for theatre, dance and other creative expressions from the African-American perspective that heighten the social and cultural awareness of its audiences.
The Chamber Music Society of St. Louis
The Chamber Music Society’s mission is to present chamber music of the highest quality, support educational activities that encourage more students and adults to appreciate the art form, and nurture exceptional emerging chamber music performers and ensembles.
Upstream Theater
Upstream Theater is a professional production company dedicated to presenting new works and inventive stagings of classical plays, with a special focus on joint ventures involving artists from other countries. We offer a theater that is spiritual and sentient, witty and engaged, multilayered and syncretic. Our goal is to move you, and to move you to think. Our outreach has three prime aims: to offer St. Louis audiences an international perspective in theater, to engage local communities from cultures outside the United States, and to help develop younger audiences.
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