RDT's 45th Season (SLC: Sept 30 - April 2, 2011)

RDT invites you to help us celebrate our 45th anniversary, the Sapphire Season dedicated to sustainability of RDT, the community and the earth.

Since 1966 RDT continues to be committed to finding ways to engage audiences with activities inspired by literature, poetry, music, visual arts, environment, “place” and socially relevant issues that serve to train and ignite the creative voice in people of all ages.


H2O September 30 – October 2, 2010 Jeanné Wagner Theatre 7:30 pm

H2O is a sensuous journey inspired by the rhythm of the tides and the precarious ribbon of life in the desert. Whether in lakes, rivers, oceans or swimming pools, water is the earth’s most precious and vital resource. RDT and Brolly Arts join forces to honor the beauty, the power and the sacred nature of life’s most important element. Whether it rages or seeps, evaporates or gathers, water is the source of inspiration for the choreography, exhibits and performance art. Two atoms of hydrogen joined to one of oxygen, nothing could be simpler or more important to our existence. How we use or reuse water will define the future of our planet.


The performance features Zvi Gotheiner’s GLACIER, a contemporary water ritual that imagines a future civilization coping with shrinking resources. Other works include WATERMARK by Ford Evans and Doris Humphrey’s 1928 classic, Water Study, which will be performed by members of Children’s Dance Theatre. Lastly don’t miss the return of Francie Lloyd’s The Lady of the Lake, the magical and mysterious supernatural Celtic goddess of water who will leave you breathless.


Imagine That! November 19-20, 2010 Jeanné Wagner Theatre 7:30 pm
This family friendly, narrated concert is for the young at heart who will enjoy RDT's explanation of “how things work.” Through the magic of dance, sound and light, RDT will explore atoms, molecules, States of matter, gravity, magnetism, potential/kinetic energy, momentum, life-cycles, oceans, the environment, machines, and Newton’s Laws.


Charette February 12, 2011 Jeanné Wagner Theatre 7:30 pm
Charette: The Search for RDT’s Iron Choreographer This is RDT’s sixth year of hosting this friendly competition and one night only fundraising party. Experience a night of delectable refreshments, raucous bribing with RDT funny money, witty improvisational choreography, and mingling with RDT alumni celebrity judges. This choreographer challenge must be seen to be believed. New this year the price to attend Charette is only $30 and the new start time is 7:30pm. If you would like to be involved on the planning committee for Charette please call the RDT office at 801-534-1000 or email rdt@rdtutah.org


Place: Dancing the Green Map® March 31- April 2, 2011 Jeanné Wagner Theatre 7:30 pm
A performance inspired by a Green Map® inventory of our community integrating movement, music, and multi media to praise environmental progress and encourage environmental responsibility…a celebration of Place. A unique collaboration involving choreographer Zvi Gotheiner, composer Scott Killian, RDT dancers, and the “map makers”- students K-12 whose artistic expressions help to tell our story and create a portrait of our community.