Dance Archives – The Daily Utah Chronicle

Exploration and Movement: How Jumes Keeps Asking ‘Why?’

February 19, 2020

For Elise Jumes, a screendance student and graduate teaching assistant here at the University of Utah, dance is more than mere movement. “I feel like a lot of the problems in today’s world are because people are disconnected from themselves and I feel like what dance can provide is pract...

Artist of the Week: Jessica Baynes

By Hannah Keating, Arts Writer

February 13, 2020

When Jessica Baynes was a freshman in the University of Utah Modern Dance Program, she suffered a traumatic brain injury when she fell out of a leap and landed on the back of her skull. Unbeknownst to her at the time, her experience with the relationship between recovery and movement would lau...

AXIS Finds Freedom in Limitations

By Abigail Raasch, Arts Writer

November 13, 2019

Stage lights dimly glow on three dancers. The music begins and the art commences — bodies twirl, lift, slide and defy the laws of physics — all with four moving legs, five arms and three dancing souls. This was the beginning of an evening’s performance by AXIS Dance Company at Kingsb...

Artist of the Week: Michael Wall

By Arielle Gulley, Arts Writer

November 5, 2019

Upon speaking to Michael Wall, you are instantly made aware of two things: he loves his family and he knows more about music than most will learn in a lifetime. For some, music is nothing more than something used to fill the silence on the drive to work, or maybe a playlist we use when we’re ...

September Arts Desk Favorites

By Palak Jayswal, Christopher Payne, Alison Myers, Abigail Bowe, Abigail Raasch, Kate Button, Ray Gill, Weston Wood, Arielle Gulley, Hannah Keating, Oakley Burt

October 29, 2019

Palak Jayswal September quickly turned into a month of nostalgia for me. It’s always interesting to be able to turn back to old art — whether it’s music, tv or a good book — and relive the feelings you experienced when you first consumed it. For me, September consisted of reminis...

SALT Dance Finds Beauty in Tragedy

By Kate Button, Arts Writer

October 24, 2019

When life presents us with tragedies, how do we find the beauty in the pain? When we are forced to confront physical or cognitive deterioration, how do we cope and find support? What happens when you can’t function normally in everyday life? How do we go on living, even once life as we know it has com...

Artist of the Week: Jessica Liu

By Hannah Keating, Arts Writer

October 15, 2019

Jessica Liu didn’t always know she was going to be a dancer. Naturally, it fell in the procession of fantastic dream jobs she had as a child — ballerina simply had, as she described, “its fair moment in the limelight.” She just knew when she started dance lessons at the age of five in h...

Alexandra Barbier Sets Out to Queer the Art of Performance

By Abigail Raasch, Arts Writer

October 3, 2019

The University of Utah's modern dance program has limited slots for graduate students who are looking to work hard to hopefully become professionals, gain more experience and be challenged in their art. Alexandra Barbier is currently in her third and final year in the modern graduate program and in the...

Save Time and Money While Visiting More Arts Events through the Utah Cultural Alliance

By Abigail Bowé, Arts Writer

September 10, 2019

Most of the college students I know love the arts across a broad range of outlets and interests, ranging from professional interests to hobbies. Among them are vinyl collectors, photographers, Broadway fans, choir devotees, dancers, poets, writers, hardcore concert-goers, film geeks and costume...

Excellence in the Community Brings Social Dancing Back to Utah

By Abigail Raasch, Arts Writer

August 1, 2019

Throughout history, social dancing has been an integral part of many communities. During times of struggle and hardship, people would join together with good music and dance it out. We now live in a generation where dancing isn’t as much of a cultural norm. Our world has had the wonderful...