Friday Sept 23
9:30am - 12:30pm Adjudicated Showcase
2:00pm - 5:00pm Choreography Workshop
Pre-Professional (2-4 yrs experience) & Professional Choreographers (5+ yrs experience).
5:30pm Improvisation Battle

Saturday Sept 24
9:30am - 12:30pm Adjudicated Showcase
2-4pm Choreography Workshop Student Choreographers (0-2yrs experience)
6:30pm Gala Performance showcasing best-of-festival work from both days of adjudication.
Submissions
Choreographers from students to professionals present work for adjudication & face-to-face feedback. Top pieces chosen to perform in Saturday evening gala
Submission Pricing:
$40 / solo work
$70 / piece under 6 dancers
$100 / piece over 6 dancers
Workshop
Dancers & Choreographers take masterclasses about: Choreographic habits, tools & tasks Addressing fears and mental barriers. Bridging the gap from improvisation to crafted creation.
Professional/Pre-Professional Workshop
$100 for 3 hours
Student Workshop
$75 for 2 hours
Additional Events
Improv Battle Friday @ 5:30pm
Gala Performance Saturday @ 6:30pm showcasing the best-of-festival pieces and performance from SALT and SALT 2
Awards include: Choreography engagements with SALT 2, Cash honorariums, Workshop scholarships, Concert tickets, and much more!
All events held at the Julie Layne Theater 2738 S 2000 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84109
Workshop Guests: LoudHoundMovement directors Brendan Duggan & Mallory Lynn will provide face-to-face adjudication & teach innovative masterclasses. (See below)
Schedule
Choreography Awards
Professional
Festival 1st Choice: $300 Honorarium and chance to set work on SALT 2 company this 2016-17 season.
Festival 2nd Choice: $150 Honorarium, 2 Tickets to Fall Eccles SALT Concert and Scholarship to Winter Workshop (Dec 28-30 2016)
Festival 3rd Choice: Scholarship to Winter Workshop & Tickets to Fall Eccles SALT Concert
5 Honorary Mention: SALT T-shirt & 5 Free SALT Company Classes
Pre-Professional
1st Choice: $100 and Personal Masterclass with SALT and Scholarship to Winter Workshop (Dec 28-30)
2nd Choice: $50 and 2 Tickets to Fall Eccles SALT Concert (Nov 10-12)
3rd Choice: 2 Tickets to Fall Eccles SALT Concert
5 Honorary Mentions: SALT T-shirt & Water bottle
MALLORY ROSENTHAL
A Salt Lake City native, Mallory Rosenthal received her BFA from the University of Utah Department of Modern Dance in 2011. After relocating to New York City, Mallory co-founded LoudHoundMovement and has since been creating work for various venues in the city, working with a wide range of artists in many different mediums. In 2015, Mallory and Brendan were selected as Emerging Choreographers for Springboard Danse Montréal, where they presented past and current work at Place Des Arts and Usine C in Montréal. In 2016, LHM was awarded an M(Mix) residency at Marymount Manhattan College and commissioned by SALT Contemporary Dance to create a new work.

Brendan Duggan
Brendan is co-artistic director of LoudHoundMovement (LHM), a New York City-based contemporary dance collective he co-founded in 2012. LoudHoundMovement facilitates an emphasis on honest compositional investigation and research. Often collaborating directly with the performers, LHM researches the representation of emotional experiences presented on stage through a contemporary movement vocabulary. LHM often collaborates with artists in a range of mediums including theater, multimedia, set design, and costume design.
He has had the distinct pleasure of working and performing with Deganit Shemy & Artists, Gallim Dance, Jonathan Royse Windham, KB & The Artists, Danaka Dance, Loni Landon Dance Projects, ChristinaNoel Reaves & The Creature, Danielle Russo Performance Project, Emily Terndrup, and currently performs with Third Rail Projects in their newest immersive work, The Grand Paradise.

Festival Adjudicators & Instructors
Eldon Johnson has danced professionally all over the world, including Germany, Switzerland, Austria, South Korea, China, Costa Rica, Mexico, Haiti, and all across the US. Eldon was a company member with Odyssey Dance Theatre for 18 years, and has done guest work with Parsons Dance Project, Mia Michaels RAW, and SoulEscape. Most recently, Eldon had the opportunity to perform in Andre Kasten’s production, “Gray St.”, at the ACE awards showcase in New York City. Eldon was featured on Nigel Lythgoe’s hit reality TV series, “A Chance to Dance”, where he made it to the final 8 dancers, and was able to work with British choreographers Michael Nunn and William Trevitt, founders of the esteemed company, The Ballet Boyz. He has worked with many choreographers such as Travis Wall, Dee Caspary, Derryl Yeager, Bonnie Story, Andre Kasten and Leah Moyer, Liz Imperio, Mia Michaels, Kenny Ortega, Vince Patterson, and Ronen Koresh to name a few. His commercial credits include MTV’s 2010 Video Music Awards with Florence + the Machine, “Dear Dumb Diary”, Glenn Beck’s “Man in the Moon”, Disney’s “High School Musical 1 and 3”, MTV’s “American Mall”, Redken, Windows 7, Usana, Xango, and assisting on the hit show, “So You Think You Can Dance”. Eldon was also Utah’s Best of State Individual Dancer in 2010, and is an accomplished choreographer for studios, professional dance companies, music videos, and various industrial projects. Currently Eldon is dancing with Salt Contemporary Dance here in Salt Lake City, Utah, and loving every moment of it.
