



Tate, as well as a selection from the repertoire, choreographed by Marcus and Paige Johnson.Īshleyliane Dance Company continues to place patron safety as our first priority. This company of classical, contemporary and commercial dancers brings you creative new choreography from guest artists Prince Lyons, Leah Robertson, Pauline Mata, and company director Ashley L. This show highlights the diversity of styles that is characteristic of ADC. In the opening main stage concert of the 2021-2022 season, Ashleyliane Dance Company explores various tempos and melodies with meaningful messages, serious symphonies, and catchy choruses. Tempo is a powerful musical element that affects human emotion. Whatever the style, music has its own tempo, its own speed of execution. For more information, please contact School Bookings and Audience Services Manager, Eleanor Marsh.Įmail (As staff continues to work remotely, email is preferred.) In-person and virtual school field trips also available. Themes of Digging Up Dessa: comedy-drama-adventure, empowerment for girls, resilience, history, STEAM, grief, allyship Produced by special arrangement with Dramatic Publishing

With help from her new classmate and once-rival, Nilo, Dessa unearths secrets of the past and present-for Mary’s legacy and her own way forward.Īges 10 and up. But why is her portrait not on the museum wall alongside those of her male counterparts? Dessa decides that she’s going to fight to earn Mary the respect she deserves. Dessa’s unlikely comfort comes from a remarkable new friend, one only she can see and hear-Mary Anning, the 19th-century paleontologist who discovered a breakthrough dinosaur fossil at the age of 12 and became a pioneer in her field. But when her family of three unexpectedly becomes a family of two, this smart, funny young scientist struggles to overcome her grief and anger at all the changes in her world. Her days are filled with buried treasures just waiting to be uncovered. Urban Artist Alliance for Child Development (UrbArts)ĭessa is a modern-day 12-year-old with no shortage of mysteries to solve and fossils to find. Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts (VLAA) Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artists Collective National Conference for Community and Justice of Metropolitan St. Louis (BDASL)īuilding Futures, Design and Build Workshops
