Performances & Events:
AUGUST 2010
Summer 2010 Field Workshop Showing: Monday August 16th at 6:30 pm
Salt Lake Art Center
20 South and West Temple
Admission is FREE
The Field Showing is an open studio format. There will be visual art and short performances by ten local artists as well as explanation and demonstration of the Field Method. This is a great way to learn more about Fieldwork and to support your local artists in their creative processes.
JULY 2010
Cheyla Clawson memorial dance performance July 30 at 7:30 p.m. and July 31 at 3:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. to support the launch of a nationwide scholarship in honor of her late husband 1LT. Jeremy Andrew Clawson. Presented with support from Dance Theatre Coalition, The Jeremy Andrew Clawson Memorial Scholarship Concert will take place in the Black Box Theatre in Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center and will include works choreographed by Cheyla, who is a University of Oklahoma School of Dance MFA candidate, a premiere work by Caine Keenan a Utah based choreographer and dancer with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, as well as a slideshow tribute. Tickets can be purchased through Arttix at www.arttix.org and 801-355-ARTS. Tickets are $20, $15 for Students, $12 for Military personnel and their families.
Recent Performances & Events:
Spring 2010 Field Workshop Showing: Monday April 19th 6:30 pm
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Mezzanine Studio
300 South 180 West (across from Squatters Pub)
Admission is FREE
Participating Artists:
Holly Fowers, Kerri Hopkins, Zelma Jensen, Tisha Myers, Una Pett , Lorena Ponce De Leon, Zara Shallbetter, and Kate Wolsey
"Opening" 2009
acrylic on canvas 30" x 40"
by Field Workshop artist Tisha Myers
DECEMBER 2009
Performer Zara Shallbetter pictured
DTC will participate in Salt Lake City’s new EVE Festival to ring in the new year. On December 30th, DTC will present a showcase of solo performances and short videos by local artists Zara Shallbetter, Holly Fowers, Mattson McFarland, and Amy Caron along with out of towners Jorge Rojas (Brooklyn) and D’Lo (Los Angeles). The event will take place at the Rose Wagner Black Box Theater.
DECEMBER 2009
Fall 2009 Workshop Showing: Monday, December 7th 7:00 - 8:00 pm
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Mezzanine Studio
300 South 180 West (across from Squatters Pub)
Admission is FREE
Artists: Jenevieve Hubbard, Ron McKay, Tisha Myers, Paula Ruffy, Kim Schmit, Zara Shallbetter, Kristen Sorensen, James Yeates
The Field Showing is an open studio format. There will be visual art and short performances as well as explanation and demonstration of the Field Method. This is a great way to learn more about Fieldwork and to support your local artists in their creative processes.
Painting by Zara Shallbetter, Field Workshop Facilitator and participating artist.
SEPTEMBER 2009
DTC is honored to sanction the Utah introduction of the California Hair Fashion Committee as part of the Proving Ground Series in 2009. Celebrated internationally for their pronouncements on everything observable, this elite panel of judges are widely known for bestowing unsolicited art awards that are both coveted and feared. Refreshingly unapproachable, the CHFC are outspoken to the point of post-language and serve critical discourse via blue ribbons, check lists, and judgmental glares. Privately funded and friends with no one, the CHFC emerge only by impromptu public scrutiny sessions that are identified by their principle manager, infamous art whore and ex-hardcore porn star C.C., who precedes the CHFC’s arrivals and departures in her black Escalade Limo. Keep your eyes peeled at Gallery Stroll.
MAY 2009
photo by Trish Empey
Music for Motion, Air, and Strings May 28 - 31 at 8 pm at Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn, NY. Co-sponsored touring by Dance Theatre Coalition (DTC co-presented the premiere of this work in February 2008 at the Women’s Arts Center in Salt Lake City).
Music for Motion, Air and Strings is Brooklyn based (Utah raised) choreographer Stephanie Sleeper's evening-length work (about 50 minutes) where dancers and musicians methodically manipulate a set comprised of elasticized sheet music suspended from a fabric ceiling. Aided by dancers Angela Helland, Jen Kosky and Stephanie Sleeper, violist Stephanie Griffin (acclaimed by the New York Times for her "fiery, full-throttle performance" and "virtuoso flair") and saxophonist Chris Mannigan play the contemporary music of Arthur Kampela, Tristan Murail, Tony Prabowo, Chinary Ung and Philip Glass. The performers offer a dynamic physical interpretation of the music, while negotiating the tension inherent in an environment where everything is weighted, suspended, and elastic. www.sleepdance.org
APRIL 2009
Waves of Mu
Waves of Mu: A large-scale installation/performance work connected to neuroscience and the discovery of mirror neurons. A deeply layered work, Waves of Mu winks and nods to hard science and provides an experiential understanding of complex issues surrounding scientific process, mind/behavior connections, and the mysterious draw of what we do not know about ourselves by turning our gaze toward the vast frontier of neuroscience. Video, movement, theater, social devices, and a full-sensory installation build the frame for this twisted lab/lecture/experiment.
“ Caron serves as a master of ceremonies, of sorts--a mad scientist pixie holding a clipboard in a white lab coat
directing her 'research' team with casual mock-efficiency while running through a variety of low-tech laboratory shennanigans. The experience collects as a humorous, stimulating, informative, and unusual piece of theater that redefines our perceptions of perception itself and shines a new light into the dark convolutions of our least understood organ.” - Mark Muro, KSKA public radio
April 3rd & 4th 2009 at 8:00 pm at the Rose Wagner Black Box;
138 West 300 South, Salt Lake City
Tickets: $20 general, $15 students available at the door or through ArtTix at 801-355-ARTS or www.arttix.org
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*Seating is VERY limited (only 50 seats per show) advance booking is recommended.
Waves of MU installation (no performance) will be open to the public for viewing free of charge from noon - 5:00 pm on Saturday April 4th.
APRIL 2009
Field Showing
Field Showing: An informal “open studio” showing of visual art and performance works by Field Workshop participants. This casual event is an opportunity for artists working in a broad range of disciplines to share their works developed through an 8-week workshop focused on the Field Method of critique.
Monday, April 13th 2009 at 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Rose Wagner Mezzanine Studio; 138 West 300 South, Salt Lake City
ADMISSION IS FREE!!! more info about The Field SLC and The Field NYC
FEBRUARY 2009
Enter Achilles
Enter Achilles (DV8 Physical Theater 1995): DTC’s Annual Flick Fundraiser is proud to present a one-night screening of DV8’s critically acclaimed Enter Achilles (45 min)
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 17th 2009 at 7:00 pm, Tower Theater
Tickets $12 available at the door. Join DTC for a great film and a great cause - us!
DV8's Enter Achilles looks beyond the issues of sexuality to the fundamental question of what constitutes masculinity. Why do men police each others' behavior, ever-ready to detect and eliminate unmanly activity, be it through ridicule, intimidation and/or threat? Why should non-conformity produce so much abhorrence and fear?
"In men's silence there is always the possibility of violence, infecting men's social relationships with an element of wariness. Under such conditions, what men will not allow in themselves they must deny in others." Rutherford Men's Silences
The straightjacket of masculinity defines itself in "don'ts": don't walk like that, don't talk like that, don't wear particular clothes or colours, don't show certain feelings. It's not that men don't express feelings — it's just that the feelings they show are often not the ones they actually feel.
Is it a problem? Or is all this just a series of gross generalizations?
Questioning the boundaries between the personal and the stereotypical, DV8 place eight men in a pub for a night and play the thin line between reality and fantasy — and ask you to tell the difference.
Men have historically oppressed women, but how oppressive have they been to themselves and one another?
SEPTEMBER 2008
Dance Koester Dance
An evening of new and past works by dancer/choreographer Stephen Koester, September 4, 5, 6th, 2008 at 7:30pm the Rose Wagner Black Box; 138 West 300 South, Salt Lake City
Dance Koester Dance 2008
One of Utah’s best, Koester is known for his choreographic athleticism, dynamic power, innovation and sensitivity. His richly complex movement vocabulary explores the human condition in all its multi-faceted parts, honestly revealing the person behind the steps. His work can be haunting, hypnotizing, hair-raising, prankish, surprising, silly, and just a lot of fun. With three world premieres including the dramatic Who We Are?, the return of his popular This Ain’t No Tango, and Koester himself dancing along with the cream of Salt Lake’s professional dancers, be prepared to be moved.
SEPTEMBER 2008
Author and Punisher (Proving Ground 2008)
Proving Ground 2008
An evening of short multidisciplinary performance works by local and guest artists September 13 & 14th at the Rose Wagner Black Box
September 13th - 8pm; September 14th - 2pm and 8pm
Rose Wagner Black Box; 138 West 300 South, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake’s most cutting-edge contemporary performance showcase is back. Local and guest artists working in all disciplines of performance will show you anything but the standard fare. Get your ears ready for industrial droning machines, your eyes prepped for physicality, and your pockets full of “Jason Dollars” because your going to have a chance to throw all the money you don’t have around. Oh yeah...and we’re gonna laugh at celebrities, because in times of economic downfall and high gas prices, we could all use a belly laugh at someone else’s expense.
