Free Student Matinees

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company’s free matinee performances are made available to Utah students and teachers for the school year 2024-25. Every year up to 7,000 students attend this performance free of charge (this program is supported by the Utah State Board of Education). Reservations are required and space fills up quickly.  Please reserve your seats early to make sure your students can enjoy this wonderful educational program free of charge.
‍

RESERVE NOW

This season's matinee offerings:
‍

RE-PLAY (September 2024)

The fall performance of RE-PLAY will include the return of the physically theatrical and whitty, The Bunker by LajaMartin which was originally commissioned by the Company in 2022. This wildly amusing piece is a dance theater satire set in a research study observing six people stuck in the same space together for five years and follows each of them on their fateful journeys. The Company will premiere Monica Bill Barnes’s Wish You Were Here which will include a large cast of guest dancers from Utah Valley University, Brigham Young University, Weber State University, Southern Utah University, University of Utah, and Westminster University. This piece resembles a partner dance without a partner. Dancers gesture as if to ask someone to dance and then swirl their imaginary partners into ever shifting, swirling choreography. Rounding out the program is a world premiere by Company Artistic Director Daniel Charon.

‍

RE-MIX(January 2025)

The winter performance of (Re)mix includes three compelling and thought-provoking dances. Scenes for and Ending (2023), by Raja Feather Kelly, will make its return to the Salt Lake City stage. Kelly says of this dance, “‘Scenes for and Ending’ is a love letter to the past, to a friend, to a lover, to the future, it is touch, it is poetry, it is and is not a dance. Whatever you see is real, it’s actually happening.” Accompanying this work is an original score by recording artist Emily Wells. The Company will premiere a new work titled The Rate We Change (2022), by Salt Lake City choreographer Kellie St. Pierre. This piece features 6 dancers and a human-powered spinning platform. The work is inspired by the effect of ongoingness within a changing world and through the sharing of roles and collective care, adaptation through connection is made possible. The Rate We Change features an original score by Salt Lake City composer Daniel Clifton. Finally, the return of guest choreographer and alumnus Company dancer jo Blake’s coincidences, when we meet up (2022) rounds out this compelling program. This reflective trio focuses on the personal connection of radical self-love and clarity of voice discovered by experiencing trauma. Plunging, swirling, and diving amongst the complications of today’s social issues, this dance invites the ever-changing, coordinated, and repeated murmurs of individual growth and change. This dance is accompanied by an original score by Salt Lake City composer, Trevor Price.

‍

RE-ACT(April 2025)

RE-ACT features a world premiere by Charon, created with long-time collaborator and theater director Alexandra Harbold. This performance will also present a piece by the selected choreographer from the new Choreographic Canvas commission, which the Company is launching this season.