Ballet West has performed many enchanting, delicately choreographed storybook ballets with great success. Meanwhile, Ben Stevenson’s Dracula truly allows the company to flex their artistic muscles in a contemporary theatrical vein where many wraithlike characters demand intricate revealing choreographic flourishes which not have been usually seen since the likes of silent film classics such as … Read more
Twenty years ago, when Adam Sklute, former dancer and associate artistic director at The Joffrey Ballet, arrived in Salt Lake City to become Ballet West’s artistic director, the board of directors tasked him with three objectives. One was to strengthen the caliber and quality of the dancers and production. Another was to increase the national … Read more
What better way to celebrate the Halloween season than with the first-class productions of Ballet West’s Dracula and Pioneer Theatre Company’s The Rocky Horror Show. BALLET WEST: DRACULA By Chris Myers In 1997, choreographer Ben Stevenson chose to celebrate the centennial of Bram Stoker’s Dracula with a ballet adaptation that would not have seemed out … Read more