Local Dance

Utah’s extraordinarily vibrant dance scene features professional companies ranging from classical to contemporary who express power, technical precision, and beauty in their work telling stories through their graceful movements.

1520 Arts

The Round
Various times outlined below

A long-time partner of the Utah Arts Festival, 1520 Arts is continuing their unique and energetic programming at the Round every evening, bringing together many incredible local dancers and artists who infuse Hip Hop and street culture into performance.

Trash Panda Drum Group

Thursday, June 18, 8:30pm

Trash Panda Drum Group always gets people tapping their toes because who can resist when they whack and bang away at on their instruments ranging from garbage cans and pipes to rubber chickens and washboards. 1520 Arts gets the party started at 8:30pm with Trash Panda up at 9pm to keep things grooving.

Sol Tribe + Salt Open Styles Battle

Friday, June 19, 8pm

1520 Arts is teaming up with a local crew Sol Tribe for this event where competitors are put into pairs and compete from Top 16 down to 2 remaining dancers. Adding intrigue to the mix, the winning dancers then have to decide if they want to split their winnings or battle each other and have one winner take all!

Anyone can enter (max 50 competitors). Registration form @1520arts!

Red Bull Dance Your Style

Saturday, June 20, 6pm (Qualifying) & 8pm (Finals)

Red Bull Dance Your Style is a global phenomenon featuring all-styles street dance event series with a unique battle format. From hip-hop to house to locking to popping, dancers strive to ‘wow’ the crowd to win their vote. Testing freestyle and musicality skills through unpredictable mainstream tracks ranging from recent global hits to classic beats, Red Bull Dance Your Style lets the crowd decide who will rule the dance floor.

Anyone can enter. Registration form at @1520arts or at redbull.com.

Rep Your Set Choreo Competition

Sunday, June 21, 7pm

1520 Arts is teaming up with UVU's "ESPRIT" to bring this back for a second year. Rep Your Set brings together a group of invited choreographers as they showcase their creations and compete against other creators. Performances will include hip hop, contemporary, salsa, reggaeton, afro, popping, heels and more with all local choreographers and dancers from all over the state!

Repertory Dance Theatre

Festival Stage
Fri, June 19 at 6:15pm

As it celebrates its 60th anniversary season presenting modern dance, Repertory Dance Theatre continues to build community and enhance the role the arts play in all of our lives. RDT serves as a living library of dance, curating one of the largest collections of modern dance in the world with 480 significant pieces. Through performances, classes, workshops, and residencies, RDT remains committed to building bridges of understanding that de-mystify the art of dance, making it a meaningful part of the cultural environment regionally, nationally and internationally.

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company

Festival Stage
Sat, June 20 at 6:15pm

As Utah's most established institution for contemporary dance, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company is presents new work of contemporary choreographers, tours worldwide, and educates through its community outreach programming. With a philosophy that "dance is for everybody," Ririe-Woodbury seeks to make dance a viable part of everyone’s life–whether it be as creators, performers, dance educators, critics, or as participating audience members.

Sock Opera Dance

The Round
Fri, June 19 at 6:00pm

Constance Anderson is a movement artist and Theatrical Intimacy Education Practitioner whose work interrogates the assumptions embedded in space and asks what bodies can reveal when placed within it. 

Schedule

Also, be sure to catch vertical dance pioneers, BANDALOOP, performing on the glass wall of the Main Library.