Enrollment is limited, providing more individual attention for each workshop participant. Participants must be 18 or older, and are expected to dance at an intermediate or advanced level. Workshop participants are expected to be mature, self-motivated dancers and young professionals interested in further developing choreographic, creative, performance and movement investigative skills.
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The workshop/festival additionally includes a free morning somatic practice and /or barre as an introduction to the day, lectures and panel discussions with the guest artists, an improvisation jam and social events, as well as opportunities to present work in showings and concerts. Specific class requests, identified on the application form, are on a first-come first-served basis (further class information follows). The Salt Dance Fest 2018 class schedule operates on a block system – participants may sign up for up to three blocks of classes as. Participants of Salt Dance Fest select from three blocks of daily classes, engaging with the artists in: Contemporary Technique, Improvisational Practices, Performance Research, Composition/Choreography, Creative Process, Repertory, Partnering, Interactive Media and Site Specific Work (see Class Descriptions).
The workshop is housed at the University of Utah – a hub of dance pedagogy, performance and choreographic creation for the American West. Now in its eighth year, past artists at Salt Dance Fest have included: Eiko & Koma, Chris Aiken, Angie Hauser, Teri and Oliver Steele, Marina Mascarell, Paul Selwyn Norton, Vickie Cortes, Kyle Abraham, Maura Keefe, Miguel Gutierrez, Netta Yerushalmy, Faye Driscoll, Zoe Scofield, Juniper Shuey, Pavel Zuštiak, Paul Matteson, Sara Shelton Mann, Jeanine Durning, Alex Ketley, Jennifer Nugent, Daniel Charon, Jesse Zaritt, Shinichi & Dana Iova Koga, Joanna Kotze, Katie Scherman and Idan Shirabi. Participants work intimately with acclaimed artists, developing and exploring ideas in dance and choreography. With participants from around the country and the world, the workshop highlights and investigates the creative process and is designed to be a laboratory that nurtures and supports experimentation, exploration, curiosity, collaboration and the development of innovative choreography, artistry and thought. Salt Dance Fest, unique among dance festivals in the western United States, is committed to the exploration of the creative process in addition to contemporary technique and repertory work. Salt Dance Fest annually brings significant, influential artists to Utah to share their unique and acclaimed artistic perspectives, diverse aesthetics and approaches to dance.
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