The opening of Work To Do, an exhibit at the BYU Museum of Art that features the work of Trent Alvey, Pam Bowman, Jann Haworth & Amy Jorgensen, will also feature dances by choreographers created specifically for the space.
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NOW: Charlotte Boye-Christensen & Nathan Webster’s New Project
The applause is still echoing from the Rose Wagner Arts Center. Saturday night, Artistic Director Charlotte Boye-Christensen concluded her 11-year run with the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company and the audience let their appreciation be heard. Dancer Jo Blake, who is also leaving the company, received just as warm a send-off. Turns out, you won’t have...
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HereAfterHere: A Self-Guided Tour of Eternity
What happens after we die? Are we reincarnated either physically or spiritually? Do some of us go to Heaven and some to Hell? Are we reunited personally with a deity or absorbed impersonally into an absolute? Or is death simply the end, with nothing at all awaiting? If these questions intrigue or trouble you, you...
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ONE at Ririe Woodbury
After a season of counting down to their 50th Anniversary year and anticipating the departures of both Artistic Director Charlotte Boye-Christensen and veteran dancer Jo Blake, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company premiered ONE Thursday evening. ONE is, in a sense, one of the most diverse and international shows the company has performed, featuring the works of choreographers...
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Daily Bytes / Dance / Film / Literary Arts / Music / Performing Arts / Recognized / Theatre / Visual Arts
15 Bytes reveals “Utah’s 15″
If you missed our awards reception at Finch Lane Friday night you were not privy to the winners of our new program “Utah’s 15 Most Influential Artists”. These past couple months we asked our readership to nominate the artists they felt have changed the cultural landscape of our fine state. You responded in a big...
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RDT’s Women of Valor
by Ashley Anderson This weekend’s performance of Women of Valor is the latest in a long line of community outreach efforts by Repertory Dance Theater (RDT). From educational programming to the recent “Green Map Project,” which considered environmental efforts through art-making, making dance accessible to nuanced groups within the general public has become a central...
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Municipal Ballet Co.’s Sunset District and other dance this weekend
Sunset District, by Salt Lake City’s newest dance group, Municipal Ballet Co., debuted at Sugar Space Thursday evening. Formed by Sugar Space artist in residence Sarah Longoria, a graduate student in ballet at the University of Utah, Municipal Ballet Co. hopes to provide an outlet for ballet artists to create and perform their own work...
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Jo Blake: A Final Curtain Call
Over the past decade, Jo Blake has become a sustaining force in the company, admired and respected by his audience, and loved by his colleagues. Now he is one of the RW dancers visiting the University of Utah, causing students to hush when he walks down the hallway. But those who know him all speak...
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Johannes Wieland’s “one hundred thousand”
Dance when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance, when you’re perfectly free. - Rumi, translation by Coleman Barks If you’re looking for performance that exemplifies Rumi’s wild abandon, this month Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company will be presenting a dance you...
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Micro-Dance this weekend
by Ashley Anderson Salt Lake audiences have always carved out support for concert dance. The model of multiple subsidized theaters featuring large scale repertory has been successful at gathering patrons but has not always left room for experimental choreography. Many local organizations have addressed this deficit over the years with annual performances, and Dance Theatre...
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Mudson tonight at the Masonic Temple
Though all of the artists in our 35×35 exhibition are relatively “young,” the range of their ages and experience is broad. Some are still in school, exploring techniques and finding their voice. Others are already established members of the local arts community, involved in a variety of activities. Ashley Anderson is one of the latter....
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Mary Lyn Graves
Sarah Thompson sits down with the newest dancer at Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, Mary Lyn Graves. Graves originally trained in classical ballet, but found her true passion in contemporary dance. Through mere happenstance, Graves spent a month studying with the company while she was in college and she became determined to return. Read about the petite...
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Arrivals/Departures
Periodically, something new arrives on the scene, something that offers a different take on what a gallery can be, what art can be, a new way of seeing and experiencing. And from January 18, coinciding with the Sundance Film Festival, through March 8 (yes, you can still see it!), that something is Arrivals/Departures, a film,...
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A review of Sailer and Hanson’s Dog & Pony
by Sarah Thompson A “dog and pony show” usually refers to either an elaborately produced advertising or publicity event designed to promote an idea or product, or to a poorly produced traveling circus show of little substance or talent. “Dog & Pony,” a dance performance presented by the very talented Kitty Sailer and Sam Hanson,...
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Dog and Pony Dance
If you're interested in experimental art of any kind, interested in one possible future for contemporary dance, or simply want to see something new and different, you are invited to attend Dog & Pony.
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