And, we’ve grown closer in this crazy experience of sharing the realities for the performing arts in the pandemic.” We were committed to supporting each other, our respective artists, staffs and audiences. “We were brainstorming and sharing ideas as we also anticipated the apprehension of audiences wondering if they could safety come back to the theater and the likelihood of smaller houses. “We realized in March and April that we would be out for a long time,” Charon says. There is no question that the pandemic has brought RDT, Ririe-Woodbury, and the four other in-house Rose companies closer together as artistic neighbors. One advantage of the virtual concert season opener is that it will be available worldwide, not just to local viewers. 3, accessible with tickets purchased online. Photo Credit: Tori Duhaime.ĭouble Take will be available for viewing through Nov. The response has been so enthusiastic that viewing access for the film of the six performing arts companies for the Rose (which include RDT and Ririe-Woodbury) has been extended indefinitely beyond its closing date, which was Sept. Certainly an encouraging sign, the Rose Exposed film already has been seen by more than three times the number of people who would have seen the program live in person if all 500 seats in the theater were sold. Wonderstone Films, a Salt Lake City company which produced the Rose Exposed show last month, returned to the Jeanne Wagner Theatre at the Rose last week to film the three works for the concert. The third work will be a restaged version of Outdoors, the first half of Shutdown, a 2018 work by Israeli choreographers Noa Zuk and Ohad Fishof that RDT performed last year. The concert will be momentous for two world premieres, one by each company: Reset by Justin Bass, a former RDT dance artist who won the company’s Regalia commission competition last winter, and Autumn Sun by Daniel Charon, artistic director for Ririe-Woodbury. At one point, both companies even had discussed the idea of setting a new composition involving all of the dancers. However, it became evident just a few weeks ago that the concert would have to be filmed and premiered in a special livestream event, as COVID-19 case numbers had increased recently. Both companies had hoped that they could open their new seasons – 55 th for RDT and 57 th for Ririe-Woodbury – with live performances in this historic collaboration, respectively, at the Rose Wagner Center for Performing Arts in downtown Salt Lake City. RDT and Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, the two great pillars of dance in Salt Lake City with international reputations, are collaborating on a historic event – Double Take, a virtual concert that will premiere in a livestream film Oct. We need to make the connections with one another. Movement sends a message that resonates with people because we need art, need movement and need positive thinking. We adapt to survive and the pandemic is part of that. If we didn’t have a budget for costumes, we performed in pedestrian clothes. “If we couldn’t afford a theater, we found a rooftop. Smith, co-founder and executive artistic director of Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT), explains. “We always have been willing to improvise, adjust and be flexible,” Linda C. Modern dance always has adapted to extraordinary circumstances.
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