Ririe-Woodbury Dance CompanyRE-ACT

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company
presents
RE-ACT
April 18th & April 19th, 2025
Leona Wagner Black Box
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
Salt Lake City, Utah

Packages on sale: 6/26/2024 at 10am.
Single tickets on sale: 9/23/2024 at 10am.

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company’s season finale, marks a powerful moment of transformation, featuring Daniel Charon’s final work as Artistic Director and the company’s first Choreographic Canvas commission. From Code to Universe, choreographed by Charon and co-created with theater director Alexandra Harbold is a haunting meditation on memory, identity, and technology’s grip on human existence. Sharing the program is the world premiere of a bold new work by Choreographic Canvas Selected Artist Annalee Traylor, bringing fresh vision to the company’s legacy of innovation. A night of endings and beginnings, RE-ACT is a celebration of dance’s ever-evolving future.

Premiering in RE-ACT, From Code to Universe is a dance-theater piece choreographed by Daniel Charon in his final work as Artistic Director of the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. It is co-created and co-directed by long time collaborator, Alexandra Harbold. This world premiere will feature a new play written by playwright Connor Nelis Johnson which will be entwined with the movement sections. This piece will feature Charon as a performer alongside the company and guest actors Nicki Nixon, Ben Young, and Mack Barr. From Code to Universe invites audiences into a world where the past is reconstructed in fragmented recollections and the future is coded in uncertainty. Intimate moments unfold like half-remembered dreams: the warmth of a shared breakfast, the weightlessness of a life-altering event, the tender paradox of knowing and unknowing. Interwoven with ancient myths and the origins of storytelling itself, From Code to Universe unearths timeless questions of existence, love, and what it means to be truly human in an era where even memory can be reprogrammed. It challenges us to consider—if we could preserve ourselves in data, in code, in story—would we ever truly live forever? 

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company is proud to present the first-ever Choreographic Canvas Selected Artist, Annalee Traylor. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Traylor will travel to Salt Lake City to create an original work for the Company Dancers. Choreographic Canvas, now in its inaugural year, is a bold new annual initiative dedicated to fostering innovative choreography and supporting the creation of new dance works. Each year, the program will commission a choreographer through a juried selection process to develop and premiere a fresh, original piece as part of the company’s regular performance season. Traylor’s highly anticipated world premiere will bring an exciting and dynamic new dimension to RE-ACT, marking a thrilling milestone for both the artist and the company.

Run time: TBA

Recommended for ages 8 and up. Infants not admitted. All patrons require a ticket regardless of age.