Collage Dance Collective

🍭✨ Our SOLD-OUT performance of Charlene and the Chocolate Factory takes the stage this afternoon, and we can’t wait to welcome our guests to experience a world of pure imagination. ✨🍫

Through months of dedication, imagination, and preparation, our students have worked so hard to create a super sweet performance filled with wonder, joy, and candy-coated delight.

🍭To ensure ample time for parking, ticketing, and seating, we strongly recommend all guests arrive by 2:30 p.m. Guests arriving after the 3:00 p.m. start of the performance will be seated at intermission only. ✨No exceptions.✨

For 16 seasons, Collage has helped young people rise through discipline, excellence, creativity, and opportunity.

100% of our seniors matriculate to college or professional training programs, and our latest graduating class earned more than $4 million in scholarships.

As public support shrinks, the need grows. Before June 30, we’re raising $75,000 to sustain scholarships, training, performances, and programs that continue changing lives across Memphis.

This is bigger than ballet. It’s about what’s possible when young people are supported, challenged, and believed in. 💙

Join us in helping the next generation rise. Give before June 30 at collagedance.org.

🍭✨ Charlene and the Chocolate Factory, our annual student concert taking place Sunday, May 31st at the Cannon Center, is nearly sold out!✨🍬

Each year more than 300 students from the Collage Dance Conservatory training in ballet, jazz, tap and West African dance present delightful performances and this one is shaping up to be the sweetest one yet.

Treat this show like your favorite candy and grab your tickets at collagedance.org... before they’re all gone! 🎟️🍫

📸: Student concerts through the years.

Happy Mother’s Day to our incredible Collage Dance moms! 💐💕

Today, we celebrate the love, strength, sacrifice, and encouragement you pour into your children each day.

Behind every class, rehearsal, performance, milestone, and moment of growth is a mother, grandmother, guardian, or caregiver helping nurture confidence, discipline, creativity, and joy.

Thank you for the countless ways you show up for your children and for our community.

Whether you’re brand new to dance, returning after time away, or simply looking for a welcoming way to move your body, our drop-in classes make it easy to join us for a single class or stay for several throughout the day.

Our current adult class schedule runs through May 23, with 8 drop-in classes to choose from, including 3 classes tomorrow, Saturday, so you can load up your day with movement, music, and fun.

A brand new schedule with exciting new instructor additions begins June 8th.

So, clear an hour and come dance with us! Register at collagedance.org

Today we celebrate Marcellus Harper, whose leadership, vision, and heart continue to guide Collage Dance forward. 🎉🎁

Because of Marcellus, Collage continues to grow not only in excellence, but as a community where people feel seen, supported, and inspired.

Marcellus, we celebrate you today!!!!

We invite you to drop your love, favorite memories, and birthday wishes for our fearless leader in the comments. 👇💛

Tonight, We Leave Things Green invites you to experience Jericho Brown’s work like never before, in collaboration with our advanced Collage Dance Conservatory dancers. A MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize winner, Jericho Brown brings rare depth and honesty to the stage, blending formal innovation with powerful reflections on spirituality, family, and identity.

And this evening, his poetry and our movement meet in an intimate, unforgettable evening, followed by a live talkback with Dr. Brown.

For tickets visit collagedance.org