Journal
A Brief Collection of Moments
“The world is so wide, so brimming, that it can’t possibly be captured in a single moment or a single body.”
Isaac Richards is referring to international choreographer Vanessa Cook’s new ballet work, “A Brief Collection of Moments,” which premieres with the Utah Metropolitan Ballet in their upcoming concert Tribute on April 23-24.
Experience a Latter-day Saint Collaboration and World Premiere at Utah Metropolitan Ballet's Tribute
the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts will bring a new commissioned ballet to the stage through its partnership with Utah Metropolitan Ballet that spotlights a remarkable convergence of Latter-day Saint artistic voices — both onstage and behind the scenes. The work offers a powerful example of the creative depth and collaborative spirit emerging from this community.
Presented April 23–24 at the Covey Center for the Arts, Tribute honors four distinguished artists whose work has shaped cultural and spiritual life for Latter-day Saints in Utah and far beyond: glass artist Tom Holdman, sculptor Angela Johnson, songwriter Hilary Weeks, and the late opera singer Ariel Bybee.
Four Artists, One Studio—Collaborating at the Artists Residency
On the third day of last year’s Residency, four artists from the cohort—choreographer Thayer Jonutz, visual artists Zinta Jaunitis and Jackie Leishman, and composer David Jones—gathered in Thayer’s dance studio for an impromptu collaboration. Thayer danced sections of his new work Scorched while David improvised on the French horn. At the back of the studio, Zinta and Jackie responded by sketching the movement as it unfolded.
Out of Ashes: An Artist’s Witness from Grand Blanc
After a life-changing residency in New York, one choreographer’s dance became a meditation on loss, faith, and the ashes left behind after a tragedy in Grand Blanc, Michigan.
