RDT, A Unique Modern Dance Company

Featuring Time Capsule: A Century of Dance

RDT works closely with each sponsor to design a concert and residency that will suit the needs of each community. Audiences can enjoy a program that includes lighthearted, entertaining, witty as well as dramatic works. RDT residency activities can educate, enlighten and help develop your dance audience.

Time Capsule: A Century of Dance

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Modern Dance,
But Were Afraid to Ask

A guided tour through a 100 year legacy of dance, Time Capsule incorporates RDT’s prestigious repertory into an informative multi-media retrospective, paying homage to the ingenuity, creativity and inventive spirit of legendary 20th century choreographers. From the Founders of modern dance, through the Avant Garde and Post-modern, to contemporary choreographers of today, “RDT follows the development of American dance…with such total identification and vivacity that one could believe they actually were the pioneers of those early days with their passion for uprising and revolt against the conventions of the classics.” (Linda Zamboni, Die Presse, Vienna).

Highlights from the program include excerpts from Isadora Duncan’s Valse Brilliante, Doris Humphrey’s Soaring, Daniel Nagrin’s Strange Hero, José Limón’s There Is A Time, Anna Sokolow’s Lyric Suite, Shapiro & Smith’s Dance for Two Army Blankets, and Laura Dean’s Sky Light.

Time Capsule was developed with grant support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Repertory Options

RDT is both a museum and a contemporary gallery representing the scope and diversity of modern dance past and present. RDT maintains the largest and most prestigious collection of 20th century masterpieces representing 100 years of dance.

Contemporary repertory programs include works by Zvi Gotheiner, Susan Hadley, Gideon Obarzanek, Scott Rink, Yvonne Rainer, Shapiro and Smith, Marina Harris, and more.

Historical repertory features 100 years of modern dance, and is available for lecture demonstrations or as an evening length performance, Time Capsule: A Century of Dance.

Residency Activities

Let RDT make a difference in your community by performing a spectrum of residency activities to inspire, develop and serve audiences of all ages.

RDT is a "living museum" of 20th Century modern dance. Enhance residencies with a host of activities that reach all areas of your community. Let RDT spend a week with you building your audience and touching the lives of students, teachers, professionals and the entire community.

Arts in Education K-12, Teacher In-Service, College and Professional Dancers, Community Outreach, Seniors, Special Populations

Informances and Lecture Demonstrations

Develop an appreciation and understanding of dance. Invite your audience to experience a dance journey from self expression, to the Avant Garde, to new age and beyond. The early historical repertory is especially valuable to audiences of all ages in lecture demonstration form. Special "informances" trace social and political history that influenced the evolution of American dance from the founders to the innovative styles of contemporary choreographers working today.
Duncan, St. Denis, Shawn, Tamiris, Holm, Humphrey, Weidman and selected post WWII and contemporary repertory.

Movement Classes (for ages and skill levels)

Technique, Repertory, Improvisation, Composition, Partnering, Jazz,
Parent/Child, Performance Technique, Curriculum Based, Movement for Actors.
Other

• Lectures and Slide Presentations
• Pre and Post Concert Discussions
  
• Arts in Education Interdisciplinary Residencies
  
• Resource Material
  
• Study Guides
  
• Lesson Plans

Touring Options

RDT works closely with each sponsor to design a concert and residency that will suit the needs of each community. RDT tours with 8-10 company members and Stage Manager.

Note: Fees will vary depending on number of company members involved, residency activities, geographic area, lodging and touring expenses.

Half Week to Week Long Residency

2-6 days of residency activities culminating in a community concert.
Residency activities can be designed for elementary through senior high school, college or general community. Residency Activities may include:

• AIE Interdisciplinary Classes K-12
  
• Teacher Professional Development Workshops
  
• School and Community Lecture Demonstrations
  
• Community Classes, Lectures
  
• Concert

Presenter Support Material Includes:

Technical Requirements, Stage and Technical Crew

RDT likes to perform in a theater space with a performance area (from the onstage side of the masking) of at least 35’ W x 30’ D. The floor should be smooth wood laid over wood sleepers (sprung) with some "give". Concrete or cement floors are not acceptable. The stage should have a good quality working sound system. Ideally, the space should also have four wings (legs), enough borders to mask, a black scrim, a cyc or white scrim or a full black traveler. RDT also requires a floor covering to be supplied by the sponsor (unless otherwise negotiated with RDT). This floor covering must be black Marley or equivalent and should be of sufficient size to cover the entire dancing space. RDT would also require a technical assistance crew consisting of people able to lift and work assisting with load in, coloring and focus, performance and load out.

For Booking

• E-mail booking@rdtutah.org
  
• Call Ricklen Nobis at (801) 534-1000
• Write to us at PO Box 510427, Salt Lake City UT 84151-0427