Authors: Brian Kubarycz
Rire-Woodbury Dance Company: Surfaces
The Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company wrapped up their 2008-2009 season last weekend with three performances of Surfaces. The show, which spotlights the work of three accomplished choreographers, begins with a collective improvisation featuring distinguished alumni whose tenure with the company span its 45 year history. The spectacle of mixed ages and styles of expression displayed by
Ririe-Woodbury Dance: Equilibrium
Salt Lake City’s Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company opened it’s 2009/2010 season with Equilibrium, a collection of pieces which ran at the Jeanne Wagner Theater from September 24th – 26th. If the rest of the season rises to the caliber of the performances I saw at the Saturday night performance, this will be an exciting season. … read more
The White Rectangle–Modern Dance as . . . Modern:
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Just last week Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company got its 2010/2011 season off to an energetic start with a presentation of Configurations. This show included pieces by four different choreographers, working on either the regional or international level. Though the audience could have been larger on Thursday, the enthusiasm of the crowd—for Ririe-Woodbury specifically, and modern dance in generally—was unmistakable, and it’s hard not to catch the same spirit. … read more
RDT’s H20
Just one week after Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company launched its 2010/2011 season with Configurations at the Jeané Wagner Theater, another season-opener took place in the same location – H2O, by Repertory Dance Theater.
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The Dance Revolution Will Be Televised: Vox Lumiere presents The...
It has been said that both rock and opera are dead. If this is so, then Vox Lumiere’s performance of The Phantom of The Opera, on October 8 at Kingsbury Hall, can be viewed as an attempt to shock both back to life. … read more
Cipher @ Rose Wagner Theater
This last weekend The Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company presented Cipher, a show choreographed entirely by artistic director Charlotte Boye-Christensen. The first half of the evening was comprised of a suite of dances that Ririe-Woodbury had already performed in recent years. But any initial disappointment I might have felt on discovering this was quickly dispelled. … read more
YOB @ Club Vegas 07.04
YOB is a three-piece band from Eugene, Oregon. Their sound emanates principally from the burly Mike Scheidt, whose guitar style is virtually unmistakable. It consists of huge, frequently grooving and throbbing guitar riffs made almost lush and orchestral not with distortion so much as thick dissonance. The result is a dense sonic mass which Scheidt continually cuts and tears asunder with a sudden ringing upstroke, which has become his musical signature. … read more
The Saintainne 07.09
With their debut appearance at Bar Deluxe scarcely one hot week behind them, and the sounds of a July 4 gig still ringing the ears of the newly schooled, local act The Saintanne came back atcha, Salt Lake, one more time, Saturday night at 10 o’clock, on the blacktop out behind Black Chandelier. SLUG was there, where the fuck was you? … read more
Predict the Unexpected: Ririe-Woordbury Dance Company Presents Prism
This last week, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, in a run which lasted from December 8 through 10, presented Prism, a showcase of the choreography of Charlotte Boye-Christensen. Since 2002, Boye-Christensen has brought state-of-the-art dance to Utah, and Prism continued to do nothing less. True, the first two pieces of the evening had been performed previously by the company.
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Ririe-Woodbury: Polychromatic
This weekend marked the beginning of Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company’s 2011-12 season. Last year’s final show was so colorful and imaginative it seemed reasonable to ask how the company could possibly supersede that prior spectacle. The company’s artistic director, Charlotte Boye-Christensen, was wise enough not to attempt such a feat. Rather, she courageously took the company in the opposite direction. While last night’s show bore the title Polychromatic, the set of pieces performed seemed considerably subdued compared to work produced by Ririe-Woodbury in recent seasons. … read more