Proving Ground 2010

Proving Ground 2010

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.

Proving Ground 2009

DECEMBER 2009

Performer Zara Shallbetter pictured

DTC participated in Salt Lake City’s new EVE Festival to ring in the new year. On December 30th, our annual Proving Ground showcase was a part of this exciting new multi-day event at the Rose Wagner Black Box Theater. DTC presented solo performances and short videos by local artists Zara Shallbetter, Holly Fowers, and Amy Caron along with out-of-towners Jorge Rojas (Brooklyn) and D’Lo (Los Angeles). Holly Fowers will be premiering a new solo commissioned by DTC at this event.

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 you eyes peeled at Gallery Stroll.

APRIL 2009

DTC welcomed visiting Proving Ground artist Peter Sciscioli from New York April 1st - 8th 2009. Peter performed an excerpt from his work hehimIme in the April production of Amy Caron’s Waves of Mu. He performed a new work-in-progress for film students at the University of Utah and shared video of his past works. During his residency Peter also taught vocal and composition classes to modern dance students at the University of Utah and Rowland Hall - St. Mark’s High School. After all that we even managed to get him up to our beautiful mountains for a day of world class spring skiing! It was a pleasure to host Peter and we are grateful for all he shared with us.

It was all work and one day of play for Peter’s residency, but that’s a far shot from Brooklyn I’ll say! Welcome to Utah’s beautiful Wasatch Mountains.

The Proving Ground Series and Artist Development Program is made possible with generous support from:

Proving Ground 2008
September 13 (8pm) & 14 (2pm, 8pm)
at the rose wagner black box theater, salt lake city
TICKETS $15 ($10 Students): 355-ARTS, wwwarttix.org

Jason Metcalf (above)

2008 Artists:

Juan Aldape (Salt Lake City, UT)
Tyrone Davies & Justin McBride (Salt Lake City & Sandy, UT)
Pamela Geber (Salt Lake City, UT)
Alexandra Harbold, Larissa Trout, Michael Dorrell, Laurel Lakey (Salt Lake City, UT)
Jessica Jobaris (Seattle, WA)
Jason Metcalf (Provo, UT)
Ashley Mott (Salt Lake City, UT)
Tristan Shone (San Diego, CA)

Jessica Jobaris (pictured with Luke Allen above)

Still from Tyrone Davies and Justin McBride’s work: Celebrities are ours (to do what we want with)

The Proving Ground is made possible with gallons of elbow grease from stupidly dedicated Salt Lake City art crusaders and the following upstanding organizations: