Shall We Dance?
Support our troupes. —by Amy Brunvand Even if you aren’t wealthy enough to be in Ballet West’s “Mr. C’s Club” (donors of $5,000-$19,000) you can still be a patron of the arts by buying season tickets....
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Support our troupes Buy season tickets now! Even if you aren’t wealthy enough to be in Ballet West’s “Mr. C’s Club” (donors of $5,000-$19,000) you can still be a patron of the arts by buying season...
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Harvest home: Restoring awe to a season of plenty. —by Amy Brunvand Father Jack: No, no; what’s the word I’m looking for? Spectacle? That’s not it. The word to describe a sacred and mysterious…?...
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From Revel to Regalia: How a repertory company remains relevant. —by Amy Brunvand I usually don’t review performances once it’s too late to go but I’m making an exception for “Revel,” last November’s...
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Shall We Dance? Dancing at School
Putting the arts in Utah’s (underfunded) public education. —by Amy Brunvand One of the rites of parenthood is sitting through your children’s dance recitals, although The Music Man musical essentially...
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A monthly compendium of random wisdom for the home, garden and natural world. —by Diane Olson MAY 1 BELTANE/MAY DAY. Halfway between the Spring Equinox and the Summer Solstice, this has long been a day...
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A dress for dancing?—by Amy Brunvand Last month my mother made me a dress to wear for the Living Traditions Festival. Maybe you saw me dancing with Salt Lake Scandinavian Music & Dance? We were...
View ArticleDancing Bears Ears
Israeli choreographer Zvi Gotheiner performs the deep listening of strangers in a strange land. On May 7, I put on my “Protect Bears Ears” T-shirt and took the yellow and black “Protect Wild Utah” sign...
View ArticleThe Year in Dance 2017
Arts called into the service of protest. The year 2017 got off to a gloomy start with the inauguration of Donald “Two Left Feet” Trump replacing the always graceful Barack Obama as President of the...
View ArticleAfrican dream: How Congolese and West African dance came to Utah
If you go down to the Rose Wagner late on a Saturday morning, you can feel the vibration of African drums in the soles of your feet as soon as you walk through the door. Inside the studio where the...
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