All State Dance Ensemble 2025
We are excited for our 6th year of Utah All State Dance Ensemble. We are honored to bring in Portland-based Eliza Larson to work with our dancers.
Choreographer: Eliza Larson
Dates: January 9-11
Location: Taylorsville High School
Schedule: Thursday, January 9th 3:30-9:00pm
Friday, January 10th 8:00am-7:30pm
Saturday, January 11th 8:00am-6:00pm
*subject to small changes, more details to come in welcome packet*
Cost: $65.00 per dancer.
Auditions: The audition phrase for 2025 ASDE is here! In the first video you will find our choreographer, Eliza Larson, teaching the phrase and in the second video she is doing it in real time. The phrase should be danced in silence until the bounces upstage right at 1:17. At that point coaches/teachers should choose a fun song to fade in that students can use for the improv at the end. This phrase will be used in the piece in January so please remind dancers who are attending ASDE to review it before arriving.
Registration: Closes December 20, 2024
Eliza Larson
Eliza Larson is a dance artist based in Portland, Oregon, and has been a choreographer and dancemaker for over 20 years. Her work been presented by Conduit Dance, Velocity Dance Center, PICA, FLOCK, Muddy Feet Dance Company, Evoke Productions, Bellingham Repertory, and the Southern Vermont Dance Festival and her choreography has appeared across the country, most notably at the Kennedy Center (DC), The National Portrait Gallery (DC), Earthdance (MA), Conduit (OR), FLOCK (OR), and Velocity Dance Center (WA). In addition to presenting her own choreography, she also co-directs the Mountain Empire Performance Collective, a long-distance dance company. She has performed in works by Tahni Holt, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Ohad Naharin, Colleen Thomas, Angie Hauser, Paul Matteson, Chris Aiken, Mark Haim, and Adele Myers among others. In 2013, Eliza was an inaugural member of CREAP - Creative Resident Engaged Artists of Ponderosa, an artist residency program in Stolzenhagen, Germany. In February 2016, she was invited for a residency in Mazatlan, Mexico at EPDM under the direction of Omar Carrum to study Piso Movíl, mobile floor technique. Eliza has been a certified yoga instructor since 2011 and has taught yoga and dance throughout the Portland metro area.
Eliza is also a writer and scholar. Eliza's research on gender in dance has been presented at several conferences around the country including NDEO, CORD, and SDHS, and her chapter Behind the Curtain: Exploring Gender Equity in Dance Among Choreographers and Artistic Directors was published in Dance and Gender: An Evidence Based Approach, from the University of Florida press in February 2017. Additionally, her writing has appeared in Kinebago, CQ, and DanceUSA , and JODE, the Journal of Dance Education in a special issue on dance and technology. She co-curated a special folio for the Summer/Fall 2016 issue of Contact Quarterly, a journal devoted to performance and improvisation and she is the author of Terpsichore’s Deck, a set of 52 choreographic cards to use in dance-making and choreography.
Eliza received her MFA in Dance from Smith College where she was a Gretchen Moran Teaching Fellow in the Five College Dance Department, and she received her BA in Dance and English from St. Olaf College
Notes to Coaches:
You or a school approved parent/chaperone will need to be present the entire time we are working.
Don’t have an NHSDA chapter? Start one! It will be required in future ASDE events. Go to www.NHSDA-ndeo.org. All participating dancers will receive 3 points towards their NHSDA. This is a great opportunity for students to continue to dance, create, perform, and make connections with professional artists and their peers from across the state!
