Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company appears to have made the decision this fall to return to the Utah tradition of thematically naming its concerts. This one is called “Parallax” — spelled out phonetically with a dictionary definition on the RW website. The word “parallax” evokes no particular imagery and, like two out of three works on the program, requires a lot of extra explanation.
Guest choreographer Raja Feather Kelly’s dance-theater piece “Pantheon” felt uncertain and incomplete, and Daniel Charon’s “Exilic Dances” pastiche on musical theater did not illuminate the subject matter, leaving only Kate Weare’s 2015 trio “Unstruck” to save the day — and it did.