News & Press
Reviews, press releases, and features
HQ Review: Instead of waiting, they weave
Calvin Windschitl
St. Louis Dance HQ - April 24th, 2025
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"In stepping outside their comfort zone, Haussler and the company showcase precisely why Resilience remains such a vital part of our local dance ecosystem. Instead of waiting, they weave not only demonstrates their adaptability but symbolizes their active role in reshaping St. Louis's artistic landscape." Read more
HQ Review: Collective Realities
Will Brighton
St. Louis Dance HQ - Feburary 28th 2025
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"As a company built on collaboration, this is neither the first nor last time audiences can expect to see the choreographic voices of [RESILIENCE Company Artists] presented on Resilience’s stages. Yet, seeing these artists’ ideas and aesthetics distilled from one another is incredibly eye opening to the artistic range Resilience Dance Company holds." Read more
HQ Review: Entry Points
Will Brighton
St. Louis Dance HQ - November 12th, 2024
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"In every way, Entry Points is an unrelenting scream. A scream of joy, a scream of thirst, and a scream of triumph. For its first mainstage production on an elevated proscenium stage, Resilience delivered an evening of visionary artistry and rigorous physicality that not only parades the immense growth of its own company, but continues the rocketing forward of Saint Louis’s dance scene as a whole. With an entry this roaring, it is thrilling to imagine what volumes these dancers will reach with the remainder of their 2024-2025 season." Read more
Three local dance companies are driving innovation through collaboration
Lauren Warnecke
St. Louis Magazine - August 1st, 2023
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"The architects of Ballet 314, STL Rhythm Collaborative, and RESILIENCE Dance Company, formed in 2019, all have deep ties to the city and looked to fill the gaps they saw in its artistic landscape. Yet, for at least half of their histories, the four directors of these three companies had to throw out the rule book on running a small arts nonprofit as the COVID-19 pandemic thrust the arts into uncharted territory. But the rule book wasn’t quite working anyway, with a disappearing arts middle class and cutthroat competition. Those realities are part of the reason they formed their companies in the first place..." Read more
Voyage STL - Inspiring Stories
February 21, 2022
Today we’d like to introduce you to Emily Haussler.
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Hi Emily, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
RESILIENCE Dance Company began as a quick scribbling of ideas in a notebook while I was dancing for a professional ballet company. I was frustrated with certain aspects of the dance world – that dancers were frequently overqualified and underpaid for their work, mistreated and undervalued, and that production needs always seemed to trump human needs. Not only had I experienced many of these frustrations personally, I knew countless friends with similar stories... Read more