HQ REVIEW: Pack Dance presents Disruption

The May 2nd premiere of Disruption at The Marcelle Theater in St. Louis’s Grand Center arts district marked a notable milestone for Pack Dance as their first concert since officially rebranding from Consuming Kinetics Dance Company in the summer of 2024. With over 15 years of history and evolution at its heels, Pack Dance may be most recognized for its educational programming at its home studio in Central West End that caters most notably to adult dancers of all backgrounds and abilities in dance. Pack Dance’s annual spring dance concert, presented by its professional and junior companies of dancers, has built a tradition for itself of tackling topical, often darker political themes. In the past three years alone its concerts have centered around gender politics, gun violence, and climate change. This time around, the six choreographers chose to cast an even wider net, tackling a much wider range of themes centered around societal, cultural, and biological disruptors.