Being a Charette Choreographer
In February of 2009, before I joined RDT, I was asked to represent My Turkey Sandwich as a choreographer at RDT’s Charette. As well as a delicious choice for lunch, My Turkey Sandwich is a dance/theatre company that I co-direct with fellow RDT dancer Aaron Wood. I was at once honored and frightened to be [...]
Charette: Pictures from 2011
Here are some pictures taken by Mickey Hoelscher from Charette 2011. With RDT celebrating our 45th birthday, Charette seemed the perfect birthday party. To celebrate, we invited some of our amazing alumni to be guest choreographers. Angie Banchero-Kelleher, Todd Allen, Michael Kelly Bruce, Kim Strunk, and Brent Schneider took the daring leap and helped us out. [...]
Charette
Charette: it’s a strange word. It is stands for an intense period of design activity… at least according to Wikipedia. It is commonly used in design and architectural circles, but for local Salt Lake dancers, it means something more. While a fun Google search for Charette says the word can even be used as a [...]
What You Leave Behind LIVE BLOG!
The RDT dancers are excited to be experimenting with a LIVE blog. What you see below is a real time document created by the dancers during rehearsals with Nick and Natosha during the two week creation of ‘What You Leave Behind.’ Using words, impressions, thoughts, images, and video we hope that this virtural document will show [...]
Live Blogging – A New Experiement
RDT is about to launch something very new – a LIVE blog. To be honest, I don’t know much about LIVE blogs, I’ve certainly never run one before and, until I did some research, I wasn’t really sure what a LIVE blog was. But despite all my questions, I’ve been spending the last few weeks [...]
Katie Winder
As we are starting a new year, why don’t you get to know our newest dancer, Katie Winder! She’s been dancing with us since June and is a delightly addition to the company. She is an amazing mover with a wonderful sense of line, technique, and passion for movement. She also has an amazing sense of [...]
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