Utah Dance articles published in 15 Bytes, Utah’s Art Magazine.
On the third Saturday of each month, Vis., an optical shop and eye clinic in Salt Lake City, stows away its designer eyewear and opens its doors to the local arts community for intimate evenings of art curated by 801 Salon. November’s installment featured dance works by Jasmine […]
This past weekend (Nov. 19-21), Junction Dance Company director Megan Adelsberger welcomed the audience to their first show of the season. The program notes explained the symbolism of each character in the show and gave a storyline synopsis and a definition of the show’s title: Hypnopompic. The “hypnopompic” […]
Industrial lights in hand, five female dancers shared the stage for the opening of Sandbox this weekend at the Rose Wagner. The opening soloist, Rachel Andes, pushed boundaries physically and her commitment was breathtaking. The remaining four dancers – Melissa Younker, Haleigh Larmer, Kellie St. Pierre and Laura […]
SALT Contemporary Dance’s Fall ‘21: A Return to the Stage featured works by renowned choreographers Garrett Smith, Ihsan Rustem and SALT’s Artistic Director Joni McDonald. This particular show was meant to premiere in April 2020, but when it was postponed due to the pandemic, SALT continued to develop […]
UtahPresents has brought a potpourri of performances to Salt Lake City’s Kingsbury Hall. Within this wide expanse, Cirque Mechanics is perhaps the most unconventional of troupes to tromp on its stage. Acclaimed as the most recent reincarnation of circus, the group displays a prestigious cast with many Cirque […]
The Invitation, held September 16-18, 2021 by SALT Dance, gave the audience cohorts a delightful and light-hearted show that used various locations throughout Kingsbury Hall as innovative performance venues. The UtahPresents and the SALT Dance team both wanted a return to having a live audience in the theater […]
Ririe-Woodbury premiered two new works this past weekend, “On Being” by artistic director Daniel Charon, and “Two Hearted” by Keerati Jinakunwiphat. Jinakunwiphat is a New York-based dancer and choreographer, and recently graced the cover of Dance Magazine as one of their “twenty-five to watch” in 2021. Both works […]
Last Saturday evening, Cat + Fish Dances showcased a night of calm strength despite the abrupt storm outside. Held in the quiet space of the Missio Dei Church, the concert was a traditional, black box-style dance performance of three works-in-progress. After a run across the parking lot through […]
There was a pleasant pervasive hum throughout Ballet West in the Garden at Red Butte Garden Amphitheater last Friday evening. Not from the bees that earlier menaced the company’s onstage mark-through, but rather the audience sprawled across the lawn, emboldened in commentary and conversational asides by the open […]
As we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, Salt Lake City is concentrated with artistic animation — it seems everyone is perpetually on the move. In times of dramatic change and transition, artists have found ways to keep dancing; performing companies such as Repertory Dance Theater strive to embrace […]
New collective Fem Dance Company began exploring their boundaries with a succinct debut, Home Bass, performed this past week at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival. Home Bass was a twenty-minute work featuring five female dancers — Ruby Cabbell, Jorji Diaz-Fadel, Christi Harris, Nicole Smith, and Becca Speechley […]
Before I ever saw Dishy Collective’s performance Fine China, I saw their instagram campaign, which was prodigious. I hate social media, but I keep it on my phone because it seems like I need it to keep up with what’s happening. When I started editing this journal (for […]
