The Salt Lake Acting Company and playwright Karen Cahill are trying something different. Their new production “Silent Dancer” mixes drama and dance — but not music, for the most part.
“This is using dance as a means of expression. To express an intense emotion,” Cahill said. “Usually in plays when there’s dance, they have what’s called the dance break. There’s kind of a showbiz moment where they dance and there’s music. But this isn’t like that.”
The play is about a Jazz Age interracial romance between Rosie Quinn (Mikki Reeve) and Perry Branfield (Darrell T. Joe) and features fictionalized versions of F.