Artists get creative, offer original innovative shows at Kingsbury Hall

November 24, 2020
Sugar House Journal

by Drew Crawford

As cases of Covid-19 in Salt Lake City continue to surge, Kingsbury Hall is hosting innovative virtual performances by veteran artists who are eager to try out new ways of showcasing their work.

“It hasn’t so much been about what’s the research behind it, what should we do, it’s been about each individual project relationship with an artist and saying, ‘What can we do if we can’t be together?’” Executive Director of Kingsbury Hall Brooke Ellen Horejsi said, describing the venue’s novel approach to putting on their shows.

Dancing Earth Press, 6 Editor-Approved Performances Happening Onstage and Online This Month

Dance artists are no strangers to making it work. From brand-new premieres to digital reimaginings, these six performances, slated to find stages and screens this month, prove just how true that is. Published by Dance Magazine.

Dancing Earth’s BTW US Cyberspace imagines digital space as a realm of creative gathering and regeneration.

November 3, 2020
Southwest Contemporary

by Tamara Johnson

In a year of social distancing and division, global Indigenous dance company Dancing Earth uses digital space for creative gathering and (re)generation. The art they make convening “here” feels like contemporary ritual. Dancing Earth’s current work, BTW US Cyberspace, constructs and inhabits a liminal realm between tradition and technology. The dancers forge a Mobius pathway through personal, political, ecological, and cosmological histories toward a vision of renewal.

November Digest: Augury, Ancestors, and Apocalypse, UtahPresents brings Dancing Earth

October 11, 2020
publisher: loveDancemore

All great artists are visionaries. Rulan Tangen, the artistic director of Contemporary Indigenous theater company, Dancing Earth, and a Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow, proves the rule in BTW US CYBERSPACE, a virtual dance miniseries created in partnership with the Global Change & Sustainability Center at the University of Utah, in response to colonization, commodification, and climate crisis.