On Cue

by Ariel Wright, Summer 2021

Ariel Wright is an award-winning choreographer as well as a company dancer with Utah Metropolitan Ballet. On Cue was selected to be performed at the Regional Dance America/Pacific Festival at the end of April 2014 in Spokane, WA, and was one of ten emerging pieces chosen by adjudicator Deborah Hadley throughout the region.

There’s a strong ballet vocabulary throughout the entirety of the piece, with abstract and neoclassical elements interspersed. The ballet is originally about 7 minutes long but has been cut to be about 5 minutes long to accommodate for spatial limitations. This project was completely student-produced and danced, with special thanks to Rommel Nuñez for video production.

Choreography: Ariel Wright

Editing/Production: Rommel Nuñez

Dancers: Annie Lewandowski, Maki Ishibashi, Maria Sol Blankemeyer, Sandy Zeng, Mariah Hesser, Willa Broderick, Alison Tatsuoka, Katherine Zhao, Paige Hinkley, and Christine Blackshaw