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SALT LAKE CITY \u2013 Moving through Utah\u2019s scenic vistas, Children\u2019s Dance Theatre has a new story to tell.<\/p>\n
Over a year, 11 young dancers explored many locations, including Antelope Island, sand dunes, Little Wild Horse Canyon, Goblin Valley and Mount Baldy. Twig Media Lab captured it all. The young dancers bring that scenery into the Capitol Theatre for a multi-media production.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat story is this group of dancers that come together, meet in a mountain meadow and decide to go on a journey together,\u201d Artistic Director Mary Ann Lee said.<\/p>\n
Diana Timothy is the program manager of Children\u2019s Dance Theatre and the artistic director of \u201cWild Ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThese landscapes that we have in our beautiful state are so inspiring, and we, as dancers and choreographers, love spending time outside \u2026 We hope that the audience will come away from this with a renewed sense of appreciation,\u201d Timothy said.<\/p>\n
Alma Lee, 10, one of the dancers, says she hopes seeing this production will make audiences want to explore our state more.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love that we got to go dance in many different places, like the sand dunes and parks, but my absolute favorite was the snow,\u201d Alma Lee said. \u201cI hope that they\u2019re inspired to go see some of the places for themselves because they think it\u2019d be really fun and enjoy that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Foss Goodwin, 18, has been a dancer with CDT for 14 years. He graduates this year and then is heading to Dartmouth College. He loves this production because he is also a filmmaker.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the world of professional dance, we see so many companies going towards multi-media performances with dance and film, so this is really nice to bring that to the students and to the arts community,\u201d Goodwin said.<\/p>\n
CDT has been part of the Utah Arts Community since 1949. Virginia Tanner was the founder. She believed that all children can move creatively. The company now has 190 young dancers, aged 8 to 18.<\/p>\n
Mary Ann Lee says it is important that this group continues.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s this beautiful legacy of valuing the divinity of each child and allowing them to express and find their voice,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
CDT\u2019s mission is to create fearless artists and worthwhile human beings. The young dancers say \u201cWild Ideas\u201d lets them express how they feel about their art and how they feel about the beauty of Utah.<\/p>\n
Performances of \u201cWild Ideas\u201d<\/a> take place this Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre in downtown Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ksltv.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY \u2013 Moving through Utah\u2019s scenic vistas, Children\u2019s Dance Theatre has a new story to tell. Over a year, 11 young dancers explored many locations, including Antelope Island, sand dunes, Little Wild Horse Canyon, Goblin Valley and Mount Baldy. Twig Media Lab captured it all. The young dancers bring that scenery into the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2338874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2338873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Childrens-Dance-Theatre-highlights-Utahs-scenic-beauty.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2338873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2338875,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338873\/revisions\/2338875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2338874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2338873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2338873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2338873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}