Dance Concert Planned for Live Grand Theatre Audience

Last spring the Salt Lake Community College Dance Company was just a few weeks from performing their annual spring concert when the pandemic forced the cancellation of events across the country. Now, with COVID-19 infections at all-time highs in Utah, the group thinks it has figured out a way to perform in front of a live audience.

There are two concerts planned for Nov. 20 and 21, 7-8 p.m. both nights. Students, staff and faculty at SLCC are encouraged to bring Bruin Food Pantry donations in lieu of an entry fee. The cost to the general public will be $5 through the Grand Theatre Box Office, which is offering contactless digital ticketing. Audience members will experience socially distanced seating inside the theatre. Congregating in groups will be discouraged by ushers. Contact tracing efforts will be in place.

If they can pull it off, the SLCC Dance Company fall concert later this month will be the first live performance at SLCC’s Grand Theatre since it closed in March due to the pandemic. Some of the student dancers from last spring have returned along with choreographed pieces from the cancelled show. This show has been given the title “Mended,” and for good reason. “This is us attempting to pull those pieces and put them back together,” says SLCC Dance Company director Whitney Harris.

Dancers, which includes possibly three outside groups, will be expected to do symptom checks leading up to the concerts. Masks for SLCC dancers, though used during rehearsals, will not be required while on stage so that they can perform at peak levels, much like athletes on the field or court, Harris points out. “I just want them to have someone to perform for,” she says about the importance of putting on the concerts. “We feed off of the energy – it’s an interactive experience.”

She commends the dancers for completely choreographing the nine performances that audience members will see. “The resilience and resolve the students have to be there and persist is pretty remarkable to me,” she says. “They’re phenomenal.”

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