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We finished up our first week of Salt Dance Fest and are half-way through this year's festival. I am physically and mentally exhausted, but feeling so fulfilled. I have been attending a choreography workshop with Alex Ketley and a partnering workshop with Jennifer Nugent every day and have been pushed in new ways that force…

Hot Mess I’m committed to a class called Hot Mess, taught by San Francisco Bay Area artist Alex Ketley. The class is an intimate size of 8 dancers. I am taking it for two weeks, and I had to drop all expectations at the door. It’s been a great community so far of people who…

I am taking a class with Jennifer Nugent entitled "Imaginative-Sensitive-Articulate/The Subtleties of Partnering" every day during this year's festival. Female relationships and active, supportive female bodies are extremely important to me as a dance artist. It is so inspiring for me to be able to participate in a partnering class that is facilitated by a…

My name is Caroline Eskew, and I just graduated with my BFA from the University of Utah’s Department of Modern Dance. I signed up as an intern for Salt Dance Fest for the second time because it is hosted by an incredible department that I am comfortably nested in, and the work done at the…

Natalie Gotter is a dance artist, researcher, instructor, choreographer, performer, and filmmaker currently located in Salt Lake City, Utah where she is a MFA in Modern Dance candidate at the University of Utah. She is also in the process of receiving her certification in Screendance and Gender Studies.  I am attending Salt Dance Festival this…

Hello world!  My name is Rebecca Aneloski, and I am a MFA Candidate and Teaching Assistant at the University of Utah in Modern Dance. I’m so thrilled and lucky to be able to post my thoughts throughout the next two weeks here in Salt Lake City during this beautiful event called Salt Dance Fest! I’m in…

   Executive Director: Jena Woodbury     Artistic Director: Daniel Charon     Education Director: Ai Fujii Nelson   Our workshops are designed to explore special topics with some of the most innovative contemporary artists working in dance and theater. We have two different workshops that we provide each summer. Professional Workshop (2 weeks) July 18-29, 2016 The goal…

From Blog Director Jill Randall: In January 2016, I created a free, downloadable journal for college level technique classes. If you were a professor or student who used the journal, your feedback is needed to further develop the tool. Please leave a comment below or email randalldanceprojects@gmail.com. Thank you! —- Related links: Download Technique Journal…

Hometown: Hong Kong Current city: Brooklyn, NY College and degree: BA from Brown University Graduate school and degree: MS in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon Website: http://samsam.freesite.website/ All of the dance hats you wear: Dancer, choreographer, teacher, website designer, lighting and costume designer, poet. Non-dance work you do or have done in the past: Trader at a hedge fund. Risk…

  Today's post comes from San Francisco Bay Area dancer Patricia West. Patricia teaches dance at the Berkwood Hedge School as well as through her work with the Joe Goode Performance Group. —– Here are a few of my favorites for K-5 dance classes. -Up in the Air Soundtrack I particularly like the "Security Ballet"…