Utah Dance articles published in 15 Bytes, Utah’s Art Magazine.
En route to DRYPP, I passed people taking photos of the sun diffused by haze caused by smoke blown into the Salt Lake Valley from fires as far away as Los Angeles and the Pacific Northwest. I thought about my family and friends who are recovering from Hurricane […]
On a warm summer evening, I gathered with a small group of people at Bend-in-the-River park by the Jordan River for a performance of “Those with Wings,” billed as an “immersive dance experience” based on Terry Tempest Williams’ book When Women Were Birds. We were given instructions to […]
When I think of Daniel Mont-Eton’s Homeward I think ambient – a word derived from ambire in Latin, meaning “to go around” – and around and around. I think of the dancers’ almost-constant physical contact when dancing together, each an integral part of the other’s environment, supported by […]
Molly Heller’s “very vary” was just that: a very varied patchwork. For the duration of the hour-long dance, the cast of six — members of Ririe-Woodbury and freelancers alike — approached Heller’s performatively demanding work with integrity. Papier-mâché animal heads by Gretchen Reynolds lined the back of the […]
Footage of SALT Contemporary Dance in Ihsan Rustem’s Voice of Reason. SALT Contemporary Dance closed their 2016-2017 season with a collection of current works from local, national and international choreographers. This was my first time witnessing a SALT performance and I am so grateful I finally had […]
Choreographer Ann Carlson has a longstanding relationship with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, originally studying modern dance under company co-founders Shirley Ririe and Joan Woodbury at the University of Utah in the 1970s. While there, Carlson also studied under the late Elizabeth Hayes, who brought the dance major to fruition […]
For the close of their season, Ballet West presents a program that spans over 80 years of dance making with three astoundingly diverse works. Beginning with George Balanchine’s Chaconne, dancers in softly draped dresses cover the stage as Gluck’s pastoral score drifts through the theater. They gently weave […]
In a striking moment from Dabke, Repertory Dance Theatre’s eight performers linked arms, stomping and dipping in rhythm as they wove across the Rose Wagner stage to Ali El Deek’s crooning voice. Outbursts of solos and duets juxtaposed these group interludes, with performer Justin Bass’ rapid fire tiny […]
The performance content of Save Your Own Skin is inspired by questions arising from a prototype of bulletproof skin and other ways that we attempt to shield ourselves from vulnerability. The collaborators of the work include Tanja London, Carloss Chamberlin, Jason Rabb, Nick Foster, Ami Hanna. The performance […]
Formerly known as Innovations, Ballet West’s newly titled Works from Within has moved to the Eccles Center in Park City. Works from Within shares choreography from company ranks and 2017’s iteration presented world premieres by Oliver Oguma, Trevor Naumann, Kazlyn Nielsen, and Adrian Fry. While the Eccles Center […]
Sonder, a collaborative immersive dance theater experience choreographed and directed by Graham Brown and produced by Sackerson will run for two weekends at the Eagles Hall. This historic Salt Lake City site was built in 1911 and has served as a place to house social and cultural activities, […]
Painter Cassandra Christensen Barney has plenty of experience coming up with costumes and set designs for the characters in her paintings — whimsical females in period dresses, often surrounded by a menagerie of flora and fauna. But she has found doing the same for live dancers on the […]
This special edition of READ LOCAL features art historian Hikmet Loe in conversation with Scotti Hill, discussing her newly published work on Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty.
Wednesday, September 20, 7 pm, Finch Lane Gallery
Our next READ LOCAL event focuses on short fiction with award winning authors Joe Totten and Michael Gills.
Thursday, September 28, 7 pm, Finch Lane Gallery
