RDT dancers perform repertory spanning 102 years. How do dancers find the right emotional qualities in such a wide range of choreographic styles? Fifth-year company member, Dan Higgins, explores what works best for him in our latest dancer blog post! Often throughout our artistic endeavors we are faced with subject matter that is daunting, unfamiliar, and challenging to connect
How does a first-year Company member work through learning dances that the rest of the Company has known for years? Daniel Do shares his valuable lesson that applies to more than just learning choreography. I recently started my first season as a company member with Repertory Dance Theatre. I am thrilled to be back in my hometown of Salt Lake
Repertory Dance Theatre has over 300 dances in our repertory, or "library of dances." So how do dancers keep it all straight? Second-year Company member Elle Johansen explains how she does it -- especially in learning different roles in different dances as both a guest and full-time company member. If you ask an RDT dancer how long they have
This video was created and produced by Rob A. Myers as a partial fulfillment of his thesis. He is working towards a Master's of Arts in Community Leadership with an emphasis in Arts & Culture. Enjoy!
Welcome to RDT's series of posts for teachers who want to include movement/dance in their classrooms. This is the third post in the series. Feel free to take a look at the first post HERE, the second post HERE, the third post HERE. Our goal is to inspire teachers to use simple dance moves with their students to help them
Welcome to RDT's series of posts for teachers who want to include movement/dance in their classrooms. This is the third post in the series. Feel free to take a look at the first post HERE, and the second post HERE. Our goal is to inspire teachers to use simple dance moves with their students to help them get to
By Lauren Bloomfield When I first found out that we were going to be working with Andy Noble and Repertory Dance Theatre and would perform in their concert, I was amazed. Though excited and grateful for the opportunity, I was also nervous. This would be a very different experience than what I had done before, and I wasn’t sure
Welcome to our new series of posts for teachers who want to include movement/dance in their classrooms. This is the second post in the series. Feel free to take a look at the first post HERE. Our goal is to inspire teachers to use simple dance moves with their students to help them get to know each other
RDT's Embark is beginning a new series of posts for teachers who want to include movement/dance in their classrooms. The inaugural post, below, will inspire teachers to use simple dance moves with their students to help them get to know each other as the school year starts. The initial idea for what we are calling #RDTlessonplanofthemonth emerged from
by Katherine Kain From one amazing opportunity Repertory Dance Theatre has brought me right into another. Last Friday was the final day of RDT's SummerDance Limon Workshop, the perfect segue into yet another opportunity beginning this week to develop as a professional dancer. But first . . . more about the Limon Workshop. During the week-long workshop with artist-teacher and Limon Mater