Dance Majors’ New Virtual Reality
By Gabrielle Klinge, Arts Writer
April 10, 2020
As the magnolia trees blossom and the birds chirp their friendly greetings, the world seems to be coming back to life. A cool breeze containing the hopeful tint of summer passes through campus. Yet, there is seemingly no one there to feel it. Instead, everyone is back in the “comfort” of...
Exploration and Movement: How Jumes Keeps Asking ‘Why?’
By Parker Dunn, Assistant Arts Editor
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...
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