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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A Utah Original Making it Big in Europe
Lend Me A Tenor The Musical, written by SUU’s own Peter Sham & Brad Carroll, made its world premiere at the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City in 2007. Earlier this month, it made its German debut at Oper Leipzig. Based on the award-winning West End and Broadway hit comedy by Ken Ludwig, Lend Me...
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Another Language Adds New Dimension
Another Language Performing Arts Company continues to push boundaries and redefine theatre. Think back to geometry class and mapping points on a grid. The x-axis runs horizontally and the y-axis runs vertically. It’s a two-dimensional plane. But then there is the z-axis, a visual representation of our three-dimensional world. These coordinates inspired the name of...
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Another Language Upgrade: The Art of Jimmy & Elizabeth Miklavcic
A video profile of Jimmy and Elizabeth Miklavcic. It's a love story. It's also a story about creative passion, technological exploration and what to do with all those ones and zeroes.
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Duel*Ality by Another Language Performing Arts Company
reviewed by Dale Thompson Just walking in to the performance space tells you you’re in for something a little different. Another Language Performing Arts Company, founded by Elizabeth and Jimmy Miklavcic, is housed on the second floor of the Intermountain Networking and Scientific Computation Center, a research facility on the University of Utah campus. The...
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Stravinsky: Learn to Love it
by Laura Durham Quick, tell me three things you know about Igor Stravinsky… I’ll tell you what, come back after Jason Hardink’s lecture on Tuesday to answer that question. I guarantee you’ll have more interesting answers. According to Stravinsky, “The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect...
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An Education in Charlotte Boye-Christensen
Cipher reviewed by Shawn Rossiter Ririe-Woodbury Dance’s Cipher, playing Thursday through Saturday at Salt Lake’s Rose Wagner Art Center, is an opportunity. An opportunity for what? There’s no right word for it, or at least not one. For entertainment, yes, because whether you like Glenn Gould, Schubert, the White Stripes or the Black Angels you’ll...
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Interview with Charlotte Boye-Christensen
Here’s part one of our interview with Charlotte Boye-Christensen. Boye-Christensen is the artistic directory of Ririe-Woodbury Dance in Salt Lake City. She has been with the company since 2002, during which time she has choreographed 18 original works for Ririe-Woodbury. In Cipher, which will be performed December 16-18 at the Rose Wagner Arts Center, five...
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Coming Up: The Performing Arts?
Charlotte Boye-Christensen takes notes during rehearsal. In anticipation of next week’s opening of Cipher, I sat down with Ririe-Woodbury’s Charlotte Boye-Christensen today to discuss “Touching Fire,” the new collaborative piece that will be given its world premiere in this showcase of five of the choreographer’s work. We’ll be posting the video interview next week. In...
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She Was My Brother
She Was My Brother Plan-B Theatre reviewed by Ann Poore Given that She Was My Brother is written by acclaimed Salt Lake City playwright Julie Jensen, directed by the always insightful Jerry Rapier, and was selected to be Plan-B Theatre’s 20th-anniversery season opener, you enter the Rose Wagner with some anticipation. Then you see Randy...
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Last Twilight Concert
Though many arts venues either call it quits for the summer or cool down their programming, other summer-specific events step in to heat things up. Galleries and exhibition spaces may have fewer shows, but almost every town has an arts festival of sorts. Though you can catch the symphony up in the mountains, the ballet,...
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Arts and Social Change
On Thursday, August 5, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, one of our community partners, is holding a free performance and panel discussion entitled “Arts and Social Change: Can art initiate change in a community?” The event will take place in the Leona Wagner Black Box Theatre of the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center and is completely free...
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HAIR at the Egyptian
Hair at Park City’s Egyptian Theatre reviewed by Ann Poore Drag out your tie-dyes and sandals and head to Park City’s Egyptian Theatre to experience “Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical.” Be aware that it features full-frontal nudity (some on opening night apparently were not — despite disclaimers practically everywhere — since they walked out...
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Charm at Salt Lake Acting Company
Charm reviewed by Geoff Wichert “Being with me is an act of imagination . . .” —Margaret Fuller I know what you’re thinking because I thought it too: a play about Margaret Fuller, a second-tier member of an exanimate, obsolete, New England American, quasi-religious literary and philosophical movement, itself a mere sequel to the British...
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Balanchine’s America
Balanchine’s America at Ballet West reviewed by Alexa Gamble It is easy to watch Balanchine. His choreography is visually engaging and active. His ballets rarely have a narrative, focusing instead on the abstract ideas of pure movement, space, musicality and emotion. One of the twentieth century’s foremost choreographers, George Balanchine preferred to let “dance and...
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