Tag: Samba Fogo
REPERTORY DANCE THEATRE: FLIGHT
Producing a gratifying trio of works to highlight Earth Month, Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT) made its Flight program its strongest offering within the last four years. Zvi Gotheiner’s Dancing The...
Performing arts schedules are blossoming this spring, as companies and ensembles return to live productions in full swing.
SUPERWOMEN: REPERTORY DANCE THEATRE’S LINK SERIES
A regular point made in The...
Salt Lake City’s music calendar is filled regularly with concerts offering a superior level of musicianship that would be envied in any major U.S. urban cultural center. The Utah Review summarizes four concerts from the last four...
The upcoming Xiré concert by Samba Fogo will offer a different facet of Utah’s Brazilian dance and music company, which many audiences have known for their exuberant celebrations especially of Carnaval culture.
The concert...
Dance is the empress jewel in the crown of Utah’s performing
arts history. Accordingly, dance is represented in numerous ways at this year’s
Utah Arts Festival. There are two world
premiere dance commissions by Ballet West artists Katlyn Addison and...
A busy spring season for many Utah based performing arts company has produced memorable performances.
RIRIE-WOODBURY DANCE COMPANY: RETURN
In Daniel Charon’s Return, the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company created a new realm of dance theater by imagining the six dancers aboard a...
The guitarist Andre Feriante wrote that we “live in silence.” In finding his natural pulse as a composer, he believes “music that is aware of the gates of silence can cause you to see more of where you...
It is not an artifice that the mind has added to human nature. The mind has added nothing to human nature. It is a violence from within that protects us from a violence without. It is the imagination pressing...
Friday’s headliners for the Utah Arts Festival comprise a blockbuster lineup on the main stages with world premieres in two programs (click on previews for each program): the jazz commission concert with the Salt Lake City Jazz Orchestra featuring...
This flame that burns in my heart.
Calls me to the heat of Samba.
It is the glow that illuminates the darkness
The light that clarifies my path.
It is culture, art, and expression.
It is magic brought from Aruanda.
From black and white ashes
From...
