Aug 3, 2026 · 38 min · 12 segments
Go behind the scenes of experimental contemporary dance in this episode of St. Louis Dancescapes. Hosts Carly Vanderheyden and Soraya Cohen sit…
Jacob HenssGuest
Carly VanderheydenHost
Soraya CohenHost
I mean, I think it hit a niche of dancers that I maybe were underrepresented artistically.
I was like, what do I want to talk about? I try to be very relaxed in terms of like getting organization together.
And I think that organizational structure goes really far with this kind of work in dancers.
And I feel like we have similar kind of hopes and dreams for the city of St. Louis.
But when I started St. Louis Dance HQ it was because I saw all these separate bubbles of companies and dancers and like nobody really knew what was going on outside of their own very specific bubbles.
So I think my favorite thing about Space Station is that it is a space that dancers from these different bubbles come together to create something for the sake of creating, not so driven by like final performance necessarily.
I think we've gotten like, we're really good at where we're at now, but I want to expand that bubble.
like a key pillar of Space Station is the experimentalism aspect of it and I guess if you could talk a bit about like what sort of like hole you think that's filling in the St. Louis dance scene or how that fits into like each component with like the performance setup and the process of the rehearsals and curating the show.
I mean, I think it hit a niche of dancers that I maybe were underrepresented artistically.
I was like, what do I want to talk about? I try to be very relaxed in terms of like getting organization together.
And I think that organizational structure goes really far with this kind of work in dancers.
And I feel like we have similar kind of hopes and dreams for the city of St. Louis.
But when I started St. Louis Dance HQ it was because I saw all these separate bubbles of companies and dancers and like nobody really knew what was going on outside of their own very specific bubbles.
So I think my favorite thing about Space Station is that it is a space that dancers from these different bubbles come together to create something for the sake of creating, not so driven by like final performance necessarily.
I think we've gotten like, we're really good at where we're at now, but I want to expand that bubble.
like a key pillar of Space Station is the experimentalism aspect of it and I guess if you could talk a bit about like what sort of like hole you think that's filling in the St. Louis dance scene or how that fits into like each component with like the performance setup and the process of the rehearsals and curating the show.
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