Tag: Daniel Charon
With live performances resuming on several fronts, the arts calendar for the fall season in Salt Lake City has returned to levels not seen since the fall of 2019. The Utah Review offers reviews of three shows,...
It’s been nearly 20 months since Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company had a live concert -- Allegory -- in its regular season. This week, the company opens its 58th season in the Rose Wagner Center for Performing Arts’ Jeanne...
Three recent virtual events emphasize just how well three Salt Lake City performing arts institutions continue to sustain their creativity and visibility.
PLAN-B THEATRE: P.G. ANON
Plan-B Theatre always is a...
What appears to be a genuinely holistic appreciation of the potential of home in all of its meta dynamics will anchor the forthcoming premiere of Home Run by the internationally renowned Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company.
INTRODUCTION
One year ago, when The Utah Review presented the 2019 edition of the top 10 moments of the Utah Enlightenment, it was a jubilant representation of Utah’s integral strengths as a community of...
While virtual presentations in the performing arts abide by pandemic-related constraints and adjustments in social distancing, they also afford unique advantages. The case for such advantages is evident in Double Take, the film of the historic collaborative...
Modern dance always has adapted to extraordinary circumstances. “We always have been willing to improvise, adjust and be flexible,” Linda C. Smith, co-founder and executive artistic director of Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT), explains. “If we couldn’t afford...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Mark Alvarez, an immigration attorney who also has written for various publications on many subjects along with radio and television appearances, is the guest reviewer for the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company's Allegory concert, which he and...
In the second chapter of his 1994 book Pale Blue Dot: A
Vision of the Human Future in Space, Carl Sagan wrote about the “human-centered
conceit” and the work of Copernicus and Galileo proposing to “displace us from
cosmic center...
Ann Carlson’s Elizabeth, the dance, is the supreme example of an organic, living work of art. And, the six current dancers of Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company nurtured and nourished it in a rich, superb performance in Traces, the...
