Repertory Dance Theatre to Tour Navajo Nation & Four Corners Area for 50th Anniversary

In addition to four spectacular shows in their home, the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Repertory Dance Theatre is spending some of its 50th anniversary season touring to some of Utah's most rural cities. The Company is currently traveling around the "Four Corners" area, bringing dance to schools and communities.

The tour is taking place over 12 days and includes a variety of activities for schools and communities, including: lecture-demonstrations (school assemblies); performances; creative movement classes; teacher training; master classes; choreographic workshops.

Schedule:

October 19-22 - Monticello Residency
Featuring lecture demonstrations at La Sal Elementary and Monticello Elementary

October 22 - Performance at Monticello High School

October 24 - Performance at San Juan High School in Blanding, UT

October 26-29 - Choreographic Residency in Bluff, Utah
RDT's Artistic Associates will choreograph work on students at White Horse High School and Bluff Elementary.

October 26 - School outreach in Kayenta, Arizona

October 27 - School outreach in Navajo Mountain

October 29-30 - School outreach at Montezuma Creek and White Horse High School.

October 30 Public Performance at White Horse High School - students will perform new choreography alongside RDT dancers.

November 2-3 - Kanab Residency

November 3 - Kanab Performance

Audiences will experience dance in a cross-curriculum setting that fuses dance with language arts, history & professional arts (including technical stage) training. All students will experience dance first-hand and select ones will appear on stage with RDT in a community performance.

RDT's tour to Southern Utah honors their long-term commitment to rural and extreme areas of the Mountain and Desert West and to the Company's celebrated illumination of their 'Sense of Place' programming.

This tour is made possible by support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Ally Bank, and Larry H. Miller Charities.

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