Ririe-Woodbury's "One"

Final show for Charlotte Boye-Christensen

POSTED // Apr 23,2013 - In 2002, the energetic and cosmopolitan Charlotte Boye-Christensen decided to accept a job as associate artistic director of Utah’s Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company.

Ballet West: The Lottery

Onstage drawing heightens the tension

POSTED // Oct 29,2012 - Spoiler alert: By the end of the ballet, someone has to die. Not literally, of course; the dancers themselves are quite safe. But anyone familiar with Shirley Jackson’s 1948 classic American short story The Lottery ...

SB Dance: Of Meat & Marrow

Dancers as "movement sculptures"

POSTED // Jun 4,2012 - According to Stephen Brown—the SB in SB Dance—audiences typically get the gist of a dance piece within the first few minutes of watching it.

Joe Goode Performance Group

'The Rambler': Felt performance

POSTED // Feb 20,2012 - For many people, contemporary dance is not very accessible. Choreographer Joe Goode knows why.

Ririe-Woodbury: Momentum

Alumni dance performance returns

POSTED // Aug 22,2011 - With the arrival of the arts season each fall comes yet another opportunity to be inspired anew, to reinvigorate that drive ...

Green Dancing: Repertory Dance Theatre

Repertory Dance Theatre’s Green Maps create intuitive layouts of the community.

POSTED // May 5,2010 - When looking at maps, some simply see static icons. Linda Smith, Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT) executive director, sees a springboard for dance...

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company: Propel

Accidentally on Purpose: Propel disrupts the expected with choreographed improvisation.

POSTED // Apr 21,2010 - There is an oft-quoted John Lennon lyric from his song “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy),” which was penned as a lullaby for his son Sean ...

Footwork: An Evening of Tap Dance

Click Up Your Heels: SLC Tap’s Deborah Robertson brings a classic dance style out of the shadows.

POSTED // Mar 3,2010 - It's early evening in the middle of the week in a Salt Lake City nightclub. Like many nightclubs, it's dark and deserted midweek. But once inside the door, you find complete chaos, a clamoring from above that thunders...

Dance | Babel On: Forty years after its creation, Tower still resonates with significance.

POSTED // Sep 24,2008 - Imagine a world in which a civilization celebrates its grand achievements by constructing a majestic tower. This tower is meant to represent the beauty of the world in total, a nod to the brilliance of global humanity. Now imagine that tower falling,...

Ballet | Company Time: Ballet West dancers create their own new works for Innovations

POSTED // May 21,2008 - Fourteen months ago, when Adam Sklute arrived in Salt Lake City to begin his tenure as Ballet West’s artistic director, he was greeted by an interesting seedling of an idea that had been patiently waiting to sprout. This seedling called for a program...