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Made by nonprofit SB Dance, Curbside Theater is the world’s greatest, most astounding, and only traveling dance-circus. Curbside concerts take place in parks, plazas, yards, public and private spaces, both indoors and outside. The main season is late summer through early fall though we offer a few special shows in pre-season. Stay in touch for news, events, and updates.
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.
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? Curbside concerts are for kids and adults. Every maturity levels gets something different out of it. Solidly multi-generational. That said, please respect the experience of other audience members.
- 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!
- How long is a show? Usually 60-75 minutes
- 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 Common, 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
2025 Program
BOX OF DOLLS
Created by Stephen Brown
Performed / Interpreted by the Company
Music by Mozart (mostly)
WHEN LOVE CALLS
Created by Stephen Brown
Performed / Interpreted by the Company
Music played and arranged by Raffi and Ischa
The Company
Arielle Hassett
Bashaun Williams
Florian Alberge
Nora Price
Kate Losser
Raffi Shahinian and Ischa Bee
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-forwarding, Curbside now finds an audience among conservatives, liberals, non-English speakers, professors, ex-convicts, rural kids, low-income seniors, the well-heeled and the barely-scraping-by. It has also evolved to the point where it is a new species that moves like dance, talks like theater, astonishes like circus, travels like a farmer’s market, and feels like a community camp-out.
•Website for the 23-24 production, Tarotville.
• This video reel describes all SB Dance programing
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