Guest Artist Program
2025 – 2026
Choreographers/Re-stagers
Katlyn Addison - Left Alone (New Work)
Jenny Barlow - Sono Fatto Cosí: I Come Exactly As I Am (New Work)
Stephanie Garcia - Nepantla (New Work)
Roxanne Gray - Rasquache (New Work)
Tae-Hoon Kim - The Soul of the Sun (New Work, co-created with Jay Kim)
Vinicius Lima - Mamonas (New Work)
Michelle Manzanales - Paloma Querida (Restaged/Reimagined)
Kellie St. Pierre - Indigo Hour (New Work)
Linda C. Smith - Helen Tamiris’ Dance for Walt Whitman (Restaged) in collaboration with Repertory Dance Theatre and U Philharmonia
Ching Ching Wong - koan (New Work)
Performance Opportunities
TO BE A GOD featuring Little Moon - choreographed by Roxanne Gray, an 801 Salon & Utah Presents Collaboration
TRAVERSE - a Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company concert with new works by Miche’ Smith and Luke Dakota Zender
Vantage Point - a Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company concert featuring The Opposite of Killing by Tzveta Kassabova
2024 – 2025
Choreographers/Re-stagers
Adesola Akinleye – Choreographer Act II: Arrival (New Work)
Allision Debona – Re-stager Le Grand Pas Classique from Paquita
Irishia Romaine – Videographer
Joshua Whitehead – Choreographer-Re-stager Fever Dream
Monica Bill Barnes – Choreographer Wish You Were Here (in collaboration with Ririe Woodbury Dance Company)
Natosha Washington – Choreographer Towards Light (New Work)
Rex Tilton - Re-stager Le Grand Pas Classique from Paquita
Scotty Hardwig – Choreographer-Drone Designer Scylla_System_(v.1) (in collaboration with Eric Handman)
Trey McIntyre – Choreographer Gossamer (New Work)
Victor Rottier – Choreographer the Scale / CapSize (New Work)
Zachary Duer - Drone Designer Scylla_System_(v.1) (in collaboration with Eric Handman)
Performance Offerings
I AM… – Choreographed by Natosha Washington, performed by Repertory Dance Company – Hayes Christensen Theatre
2023 – 2024
Choreographer/Stagers
Daniel Charon – Choreographer The Parable
Gesel Mason – Choreographer Seraph
Helanius J. Wilkins – Choreographer Together
Jo Blake – Choreographer a single strand in a spider’s web
Linda C. Smith – Re-stager Passengers – Choreography by Viola Farber
Michelle Gifford – Re-stager Serenade – Choreography by George Balanchine
Tauna Hunter – Re-stager Coppélia – Choreography by Willam F. Christensen
2022 – 2023
Choreographer/Stagers
Suzanne Haag – Choreographer Ornament
Rena Butler – Choreographer …Off Shore
Irishia Hubbard Romaine – Re-stager Songs of the Disinherited – Choreographer Donald McKayle
2021 – 2022
Choreographer/Stagers
Natosha Washington – Choreographer The World in Reverse
Chung-Lin Tseng – Choreographer Carmen (In collaboration with Jay Kim)
Cherylyn Lavagnino – Choreographer In the time of…
LajaMartin – Choreographers Break
Kevin Thomas – Choreographer Aimez-vous Bach?
Ephrat Asherie – Choreographer out-side-in
Penny Saunders – Choreographer Sur le fil
Bashaun William – Choreographer The Next Chapter
2020 – 2021
Choreographer/Stagers
Penny Saunders – Choreographer Switch (Dance Film)
Katlyn Addison – Choreographer Saint-George, the Composer, Fencer, and Creator
Jeniffer Archibal – Choreographer The Golden Ratio
Melanie George – Choreographer … from Down Here
Darrell Grand Moultrie – Choreographer Confidence of the Connected
2019 – 2020
Choreographer/Stagers
Susan Jaffe – Choreographer Carmina Terra
Charles O. Anderson – Choreographer (Re)current Unrest: We The People
Alejandro Cerrudo – Choreographer Second to Last
Heather Gray – Choreographer Il Riposo
Omar Carrum – Choreographer Alchemy of the 7 Elements
Anouk Van Dijk – Choreographer Surge
Penny Saunders – Choreographer Forget me not
Master Class/Workshops
Circa (in collaboration with Utah Presents)
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (in collaboration with Utah Presents)
Mythili Prakesh (in collaboration with Utah Presents)
RUBBERBAND (in collaboration with Utah Presents)
Ching Ching Wong’s koan, choreographed on U Dance Students
Trey McIntyre with U Dance Students
Trey McIntyre’s “Gossamer,” choreographed on U Dance Students
Mythili Prakesh teaching a Master Class to U Dance Students
Victor Rottier’s “Tip the Scale/CapSize",” choreographed on U Dance Students
Victor Rottier choreographing on U Dance Students
Natosha Washington’s “The World in Reverse,” choreographed on U Dance Students
Natosha Washington directing a rehearsal with U Dance Students
Chung-Lin Tseng & Jay Kim’s Carmen, choreographed on U Dance Students
Choreographer Kevin Thomas working with U Dance Students