Utah Dance articles published in 15 Bytes, Utah’s Art Magazine.
Imagine you land in a strange new country, or even a different planet. You don’t know the local language, the culture, or the customs of this place. How would you react? Would you attempt to communicate, and if so, how? Most likely through movement. Your movements might tell […]
Where are they today? At a staff discussion this week someone suggested we run a series of articles asking, “Where are they today?” about expat artists who once called Utah home but are now pursuing their careers in other places. Camilla Taylor’s exhibit at Saltgrass (see our post […]
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 […]
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 […]
Brittany Reese Dew, Director and Founder of Sugar Space Studio for the Arts is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a B.F.A. in Dance. She has performed, taught and choreographed with a variety of companies in Taiwan, Brazil, Poland, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Hawaii, throughout […]
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 […]
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, […]
Over the years we’ve had repeated requests to expand 15 Bytes coverage to include arts other than the visual — dance, music, the theatre. While much new media in the visual art world blurs the boundaries between what was once simplly the “plastic arts” and its cousins, the […]
Joan Woodbury, a Cedar City native, is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and studied as the first Fulbright Scholar in dance with Mary Wigman in Berlin, Germany. She is a retired professor of modern dance from the University of Utah, where she taught for 47 years. […]
