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Prom and Sensibility

Thom Dancy

PROM AND SENSIBILITY

Choreography by Thom Dancy
Costumes by Melissa Leitch
Lighting by Maureen Berry
Music by Big Mama Thornton, Henry Townsend, Ella Fitzgerald

Reverting back to the 1950’s, the work examines what my time at prom might have been like as a sex-starved, awkward teenager full of emotion and love.  -Thom Dancy

Commissioned by Dance St. Louis as part of Spring to Dance 2015 and premiered by DanceWorks Chicago at the Lee Theater in St. Louis, MO, on May 24, 2015.