Tanner Studio Program Spring Show
Decades of Dance
Every May, Virginia Tanner Dance Studio hosts an Annual Spring Showcase.
Tanner Dance Contemporary Companies Present
Uncharted Territory ~ Tipping Point Showcase 2024
This year’s performance is inspired by “spaces and places”. The company members will present nine new pieces of student choreography, as well as pieces by faculty and guest artists. Get tickets by selecting a show time below.
Tanner Dance Black Box Theatre
This performance is recommended for ages 8+. Please no babes in arms.
Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts + Education Complex
1721 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City
Tanner Dance Contemporary Companies Present:
Momentum Showcase: Location, Location, Location
This year’s Momentum Showcase is inspired by common phrases connected to the spaces, places, and states of mind that we inhabit or experience. This performance includes original choreography by the members of the Tanner Dance Contemporary Companies as well as by guest artists and Tanner Dance faculty.
Friday, October 6 at 7:00 PM
Saturday, October 7 at 2:00 PM + 7:00 PM
Tanner Dance Black Box Theatre
Tickets are $15 each, or $12 for 4 or more tickets purchased in a single transaction (this discount will be automatically applied).
This performance is recommended for ages 8+. Please no babes in arms.
Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts + Education Complex
1721 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City
Tickets will be available for purchase at the Will Call table before the show until sold out.
Tanner Dance Studio Program Presents:
Ring Around the Rose
This year as we celebrate the legacy and long-standing history of this treasured arts institution, we want to begin at the very start, where dance as a language begins for us. Whatever the inspiration, dance is a language, a moving language that creates a beautiful visual image that is fleeting and lingering. In honor of our 75th anniversary, we are excited to share The Poetry of Dance, a collection of dance and poetry that will fill you up with the joy of creativity.
Saturday, November 11 at 11:00 AM
Saturday, November 11 at 1:00 PM
Tickets are $6 each
Jeanné Wagner Theatre - Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
138 W Broadway, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Tanner Dance Children's Dance Theatre Presents:
CDT at the Rose
Join us at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center for a performance by the Children's Dance Theatre followed by a special reception for Alumni of all ages.
Saturday November 11th, 2023 at 7pm
Jeanné Wagner Theatre
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
138 W Broadway, Salt Lake City, Utah
Selected classes from the University of Utah’s Children’s Dance Theatre will share original choreography in celebration of our 75th anniversary.
Tanner Dance Ballet Program Presents:
Nutcracker Delights
Join us this December for our Ballet Program's annual performance highlighting pieces from Tchaikovsky's masterwork, The Nutcracker. Participating families should have received a link to purchase tickets. Contact our office at 801-581-7374 or tannerdance@utah.edu if you need help.
Tanner Creative Dance Program Presents:
Simple Gifts
We hold our Creative Dance showcase each December. Join us this holiday season! Participating families should have received a link to purchase tickets. Contact our office at 801-581-7374 or tannerdance@utah.edu if you need help.
Tanner Dance Children's Dance Theatre Presents:
The Umbrella
The University of Utah Tanner Dance Program’s Children’s Dance Theatre celebrates its 75th Anniversary with the premiere of The Umbrella.
A family of scientists dreams of exploring the cosmos with their magical umbrella ship, The Stargazer. Disaster strikes their planet, Pluvia, and the world becomes dark and isolated. When their mother mysteriously disappears, twin siblings Stella and Leo set off with their father across the galaxy to find her. As they journey to distant worlds, they discover the key to returning light and hope to their home.
Tickets available February 22 at ArtTix.org or 801-355-ARTS
The LEADD Program (Learning and Engaging through Arts Discipline and Development) is Tanner Dance’s arts and education program for adults with disabilities. The LEADD Program teaches valuable life skills through dance, music, theater, and visual art, and incorporates lifelong learning through reading, creative writing, and science classes. The LEADD Program is designed to give adults with disabilities a place to learn and grow as individuals as well as express themselves as artists through multiple artistic mediums and genres. The LEADD Program participants will have the opportunity to perform and display their work in a year-end showcase.
The LEADD Program currently offers three classes each week during the fall and spring sessions. Registration is per class. All three classes will participate in the year-end showcase.
For ages 18+.
The Elevate Theater Company is our musical theater company for performers with disabilities. Students who participate in this program will engage in classes full of singing, dancing, and acting which in turn will help them to develop social skills, cognitive skills and mobility/physical skills. Students will explore a variety of different emotions and characters framed in various scenarios as they prepare for their annual show. For ages 18+.