Run It Back: Space Station features past collaborators in its 2026 fundraising show

This year's Space Station fundraising show will take place this weekend, March 27th and 28th, at the Chapel of the Arts at Hope United Church of Christ. Ticket sales from the weekend will directly support Space Station’s ongoing projects, including its annual Dance Residency—an initiative that has, since 2020, served as a vital site in St. Louis for experimental performance. Each year, choreographers and performers gather to take creative risk, incubate new ideas, and challenge both themselves and their audiences within a supportive and dynamic environment. 

This year’s event brings together seventeen past choreographers and performers to create a unified, evening-length work. Drawing from the archive of Space Station’s various performances, each artist will create work revisiting previous material; not to reconstruct it, but to re-encounter it from a new vantage point. Audience members familiar with past performances may recognize fragments and images resurfacing throughout the evening: a giant box, shuffling heels, live music, piles of earth, fruit, swaggering cowboys, floating balloons, brandished knives. These elements reappear on the Space Station stage in altered form—misremembered, recontextualized, and transformed through different bodies and perspectives. Performed in the round, what emerges is not a series of restagings, but an evolving landscape of memory, where echoes, distortion, and reinterpretation coexist in real time. 

Space Station continues to offer a singular opportunity for performing artists in St. Louis to create work on their own terms, with both financial and practical support—and its history of experimentation and risk-taking has taught us one thing above all: expect to be surprised.

Run It Back takes place March 27th and 28th at 7:30pm at Hope United Church of Christ (6273 Eichelberger St), featuring contributions by Space Station alumni: Abbi LeBaube, Elyzah Gasmen, Erin Morris, Hayley Barker, Jacob Henss, Josiah Gundersen (3/27 only), Lillian Berry, Mady Buerck, Marlee Doniff, Natalie Mayor, Paige Van Nest, Ramona Orion, Taylor Lee, Ty Lewis & Patrick Murphy, Will Brighton, and Zoe DeYoung.