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A program by nonprofit arts group SB Dance, Curbside Theater takes professional grade, approachable art to the people. Our traveling concert looks terrific in parks, plazas, streets, indoor spaces, and almost anywhere. Check out the 2024 production at Tarotville.com

Curbside Theater’s 2025 season arrives in different configurations that may include a pre-show mini-concert and two one-act pieces, Box of Dolls and When Love Calls. Performance schedule coming soon.

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The next season is end of August through the beginning of October, 2025. Follow the new creation and learn about special events on Instagram  or subscribe for a very occasional email.

Theater for the people

Dancers in lift with downtown behind them
Two dancers with legs extended with downtown in backdrop
Dancers on stage with apartments in background
Dancers on Tarotville Stage
Audience watching Tarotville stage
Dancers onstage holding Tarot cards
Dancer jumping onstage with audience in background
Silhouette of dancer behind screen
Dancers onstage with audience in background
City overlook
Stage set in refurbished barn
Stage set up in a field
Cast with traveling show

Donating to Curbside Theater

Curbside requires the support of cultural enthusiasts like you. Please consider helping make this program available to communities and people who would otherwise be unable to afford it. SB Dance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and your donation is tax-deductible as allowable by law.

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FAQs

  • Who are you people? SB Dance is a company of professional artists, mainly dancers, who like pushing boundaries and inventing new things. Over the years, we’ve made concerts of  all dance, pure theater, musicals, operettas, and immersive works. Curbside is what we call “dance theater”; that is, a little of both.
  • How artsy is this? It’s approachable, entertaining, and made for curious, open-minded people without any special knowledge or familiarity with contemporary art.
  • Is this okay for kids? Tarotville is loved by kids and adults. Every maturity levels gets something different out of it. Solidly multi-generational.
  • Is it hard to see the stage? Nope. The Curbside stage sits 4 ft above the ground to provide good sight lines in level locations. Standing, our heads are over 9 ft high!
  • Do you provide accessibility options? Curbside Theater suits audiences with varying disabilities. Please contact us if you have questions about accessibility at a specific location.
  • Why are outdoor shows so late? We start at dusk so our stage lights are visible. In late August and beginning of September, that’s about 8:30pm. By October, it’s about an hour earlier.
  • Will you do a pro bono show? We waive our fee for organizations that help under-served communities. Please reach out if you are interested.
  • How about social media? @sbdanceco on Instagram and tag #curbsidetheater.
  • Who hosts this? Arts councils, municipalities, colleges, neighborhoods, businesses, and individuals. They pay a fee that’s often underwritten by public grants and admission is usually free. Lots of people donate to help make the show available to those who couldn’t otherwise afford it. These are some of the peeps who’ve taken Curbside to their communities: The Blocks SLC, Holladay Arts Council, Boulder Arts Council, Millcreek City Community Life, Bountiful Davis Arts Center, SLC Open Streets, Nature Center at Pia Okwai, Tea Zaanti, Pinnacle Performance, The Other Side Academy, University of Utah Honors College, Dumke Arts Plaza, Encircle St. George, Kayenta Center for the Arts, Mountain Arts and Music, The Shop Park City, Live Daybreak, Alta Community Enrichment, and neighborhood groups throughout the Wasatch Front

Made possible by

Utah Division of Arts and Museums / National Endowment for the Arts
Salt Lake County Zoo, Parks, and Arts
Vine Lore Wine and Spirits
John C. Kish Foundation
The Lund Foundation
BW Bastian Foundation
GS and DD Eccles Foundation
And many others

Click here for the full list

About Curbside Theater

When the 2020 shutdown occurred, Stephen (SB Dance’s founder/director) strapped a stage on an utility trailer and convinced dancer Annie Kent and musical duo Raffi and Ischa to drive around doing 10 minute mini-shows to anyone who made a free reservation. Taking place outdoors under conditions of safe social distancing, the show to include more performers and pieces. Back then, we’d wash the stage surface between each piece. Remember doing stuff like that?

Fast-forward and Curbside Theater has become a complex new genre of concert art, the only one of its kind to our knowledge. Get a feel for it by visiting the website for the 23-24 production, Tarotville. Here’s a video overview of everything SB Dance does.

Performer Bios

About SB Dance

ABC4 Good Things Utah

Park Record

Bountiful Davis Arts Center

"A magical evening with SB Dance's Curbside Theater" headline with photo of dancer and audience
Bountiful Davis Arts Center

Best of Utah

Best of Utah 2022 for SB Dance's Curbside Theater, Best Pandemic Pivot

City Weekly Essentials

ABC4 Good Things Utah

SB Dance Director Stephen Brown being interviewed by ABC4 Good Things Utah's Nicea DeGering

In Utah

ABC4 Good Things Utah

Screen shot of solo dancer with caption "Live theater finding unique ways to perform during the pandemic"

SL Tribune

City Weekly

ABC4 Good Things Utah

Park City Arts

KUED

City Weekly

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