Sunday June 29 @ 8 pm, Amphitheater Stage

Dance: Lost
Choreographer: Charlotte Boye-Christensen
Photographer: Skylar Nielsen
Dancers:
TJ Spaur, Jo Blake, Elizabeth Kelley 

A Portrait of the Company

Founded in 1964, the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company celebrates its 45th Season of creating original innovative modern dance.  Always striving to be at the forefront of contemporary dance providing audiences with a variety of choreographic styles in a single evening, the Company's repertory ranges from minimalism to multi-media dances, which are always extraordinary. 

The Company not only has works by its founders, but commissions new works each year from up-and-coming choreographers as well as seasoned professionals.  Past choreographers include Murray Louis, Tandy Beal, Pilobolous, Steven Koester, Laura Dean, Doug Varone, Della Davidson, Joe Goode, Douglas Nielsen, Pascal Rioult, Seán Currin, Daniel Ezralow, John Utans, Alicia Sanchez and Wayne McGregor and Artistic Director Charlotte Boye-Christensen.

Located in downtown Salt Lake City, the Company performs four different shows, annually, in the Capitol Theatre and Jeanné Wagner Center for the Performing Arts.  In addition, a season consists of eight to ten weeks of national and international touring, twelve weeks as resident dance specialists in Utah elementary schools, five weeks conducting extensive summer workshops for aspiring students, pre-professional as well as professional dancers and eleven weeks of rehearsal which includes working with nationally and internationally recognized choreographers.

Ririe-Woodbury is heralded as a powerful force in the development of new dancers and is recognized as a company with a long-standing relationship with schools throughout the United States.  They have succeeded in integrating movement and dance into elementary school curricula including performance, dancer training and experimental improvisation.  In addition to elementary school programs, the Company has developed a program specifically designed for pre-professional high school students to provide information and exposure to the art form as a possible career.  These types of programs have produced a long succession of dancers that now reside with other professional dance companies and academic programs.       

The Company is the only dance company, other than his own, to perform a full evening of dances by the legendary genius of multi-media, Alwin Nikolais. In collaboration with the Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance Inc., Ririe-Woodbury began a series of performances of Nikolais' work in 2003 touring three weeks in the U.S, at the prestigious Joyce Theater in N.Y, plus four weeks internationally. Those tours were in Torino (site of the 2006 Olympics), and in  Paris, Lyon, Martique and Narbonne, France.  In 2004 the Company was one of only 5 international dance companies to be invited to the prestigious Edinburgh Festival where they performed for a week. The Company is now committed to keeping alive and performing the Nikolais legacy in conjunction to our commitment to expanding our contemporary repertory.

With an eye towards the future, the whole staff of Ririe-Woodbury, including Charlotte Boye-Christensen, Artistic Director, Jena Woodbury Thompson, Assoc. Managing Director/Touring Director Gigi Arrington, Education Director,  will continue and expand Shirley's and Joan's mission to create new generations of arts enthusiasts who agree with the Company's philosophy that...

"Dance is for Everybody"

View more info at their website.