Reviews
Another Language Performing Arts Company
"There are several ways one might tell the story of the Another Language Performing Arts Company. It's a story about the ever-evolving art scene of Salt Lake City, and the 25 years the group has spent performing in the alleys, playgrounds and theater spaces of Utah's capital. It's a story about rapid-fire advances in computer technology, and Another Language's efforts to create 'live, real-time, distributed, surrealistic cinema' that is unlike anything most of us have seen before. It's a story about dance and poetry, music and theater, collaboration and a singular artistic vision forged by two people."
Dan Nailen - Salt Lake Magazine (04/2010)
"This unique production makes no excuses for bringing together art forms that, on first glance, have no business sharing the same room. It's bold. It's dense...With a 25-year company history and years of performance experience using the latest technology available, the Miklavcics are expert hands."
Ben Fulton - The Salt Lake Tribune (03/28/10)
"Another Language has continually and exponentially expanded on the use of technology to explore artistic themes. Eight years ago, the whole venture took off to new heights with a series of projects called InterPlays. This year, for its silver anniversary, Another Language continues that exploration with a new work titled Event Horizon. It's a bit tricky to pin down what an InterPlay is. It involves multiple combinations and juxtapositions; different mediums and varying geographical locales: live and recorded elements: people with technology; information with art; music with spoken word. In Event Horizon, this translates into a multilayered digital mix of several live video streams set against several prerecorded video streams featuring music, movement and poetry."...As heady as all that may come across on paper, in person, the 'audio-visual tapestry' that Another Language creates is both vivid and intriguing. It helps that the entire performance-including the technical crew magically making it all happen like wizards behind a curtain-intentionally and dramatically exhibits a kinetic grace similar to modern choreography.
Jacob Stringer - Salt Lake City Weekly (03/25/10)
"For the past 25 years, Jimmy and Elizabeth Miklavcic, co-artisitc directors of Another Language Performing Arts Company have combined performance with technology. The two founded the InterPlay series that uses technology to present two or more performances from different places (usually cities) to one or more audiences... the infrastructure of the networking and connection at the Intermountain Network and Scientific Computation Center on the University of Utah campus has made it possible for the Miklavcics to realize their projects.
Scott Iwasaki - Deseret News (03/21/10)
Ever heard of "live, real-time, distributed, surrealistic cinema?" (We hadn't either.) We have, however, seen the omission in our lives and are doing our best to rectify it via Another Language, a performing arts company at the University of Utah...InterPlay: AnARTomy features two dancers, poetry, a host of sketch artists, and digital animators, and requires nearly a dozen computer systems to compile live video feeds from four other universities...all to create a dynamic, collaborative performance.
The Leonardo Blog (04/15/09)
"Carnivale is Another Language's sixth yearly 'InterPlay" (its term for multimedia online performance occuring in different sites simultaneously), fusing the artistic and technological aspects of the performance more seamlessly than ever before."
Brian Staker - City Weekly (03/27/08)
"Though Another Language has been around for nearly two decades utilizing just about every artistic medium in its performances, its work enters completely new and exciting territory, one that requires constant technological upgrades, collaboration with other artists in different parts of the world and nearly a year's worth of work from conception to execution."
Kelly Keiter - Salt Lake City Magazine (04/2007)
"The group (Another Language), founded in 1985 has always tried to present experimental works that pushed the frontiers of artistic expression, but these recent performances (InterPlays) have showcased the cutting edge of technology as well.
Brian Staker - City Weekly (03/25/07)
"Beth Miklavcic built a Zen garden (for InterPlay: Dancing on the Banks of Packet Creek) with, among other materials, powdered drink mix, while a little girl unrolled white string around her. The string symbolized technology and the Internet, which started simply like a Zen garden, but was now overflowing with material."
Christy Karras - The Salt Lake Tribune (04/03/06)
"The motion and emotion come together for fresh, new experience that is on the cutting edge."
Sander Sharp - The Daily Utah Chronicle (8/11/94)
"Their (Another Language) concerts take the viewer into unchartered territory."
Nancy Melich - The Salt Lake Tribune (3/3/93)
"....among the finest artists in Utah."
Anne Poore - The Salt Lake Tribune (3/29/92)
"Eglantine, a new work created and performed by Beth Miklavcic, is a remarkable multimedia piece with videography by Jimmy Miklavcic. The symbolism is of a rose, but the imagery of the dancing figure in black with tangled braids moves into mysterious, decadent and even threatening realms, suggesting the decay that lurks just below the surface of all blooming, radiant things in their prime. Beth's dancing was vivid, strong, bold and original, and loaded with memorable images."
Dorothy Stowe - Deseret News (3/17/92)
"Another Language Studio on West Pierpont Avenue has housed many of the great Salt Lake performances in recent times. The latest is "Eglantine," a solo dance and video performance by Beth Miklavcic with videography by Jimmy Miklavcic...The Miklavcic's are committed not only to performance but to revealing process, learning and teaching. They are unassuming people who dare to push the edges of dance and performance."
Susan Levin - The Daily Utah Chronicle (11/8/91)
"Dancing inside and around a picture frame made 'Photographic Memory' a stunning and sensitive portrayal of a couples life together. The frame seemed to freeze moments in the performance, giving the number an ethereal quality."
Carolyn Wardle - The Daily Spectrum (05/31/91)
"Another Language's performance was stimulating and entertaining, a combination not always achieved by many performing groups."
Carolyn Wardle - The Daily Spectrum (05/31/91)
"Another Language (is) one of the more interesting performing arts companies in Salt Lake."
Steve Miller - The Daily Utah Chronicle (03/01/91)
"An utterly baffling component of the concert is the piece 'Goober in Your Golashes,' including movement, dance, music, distorted sound and familiar snippets ingrained in Americans' cultural consciousness from the products of mass media. The piece can be seen as being made up of 'non-connected motifs,' as if a number of old home movies had been spliced together. Whatever one may try to classify it as, it is fascinating and not easily dismissed."
Cuman David Cropper - The Daily Utah Chronicle (06/01/90)
"Another Language repertoire has grown as broad as everyone's imagination...They have broadened the definition of performing arts."
Joyce Marder - The Event (11/01/89)
Another Language Performing Arts Company
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| InterPlay: Carnivale | Pictured: Maia Taylor |
"There are several ways one might tell the story of the Another Language Performing Arts Company. It's a story about the ever-evolving art scene of Salt Lake City, and the 25 years the group has spent performing in the alleys, playgrounds and theater spaces of Utah's capital. It's a story about rapid-fire advances in computer technology, and Another Language's efforts to create 'live, real-time, distributed, surrealistic cinema' that is unlike anything most of us have seen before. It's a story about dance and poetry, music and theater, collaboration and a singular artistic vision forged by two people."
Dan Nailen - Salt Lake Magazine (04/2010)
"This unique production makes no excuses for bringing together art forms that, on first glance, have no business sharing the same room. It's bold. It's dense...With a 25-year company history and years of performance experience using the latest technology available, the Miklavcics are expert hands."
Ben Fulton - The Salt Lake Tribune (03/28/10)
"Another Language has continually and exponentially expanded on the use of technology to explore artistic themes. Eight years ago, the whole venture took off to new heights with a series of projects called InterPlays. This year, for its silver anniversary, Another Language continues that exploration with a new work titled Event Horizon. It's a bit tricky to pin down what an InterPlay is. It involves multiple combinations and juxtapositions; different mediums and varying geographical locales: live and recorded elements: people with technology; information with art; music with spoken word. In Event Horizon, this translates into a multilayered digital mix of several live video streams set against several prerecorded video streams featuring music, movement and poetry."...As heady as all that may come across on paper, in person, the 'audio-visual tapestry' that Another Language creates is both vivid and intriguing. It helps that the entire performance-including the technical crew magically making it all happen like wizards behind a curtain-intentionally and dramatically exhibits a kinetic grace similar to modern choreography.
Jacob Stringer - Salt Lake City Weekly (03/25/10)
"For the past 25 years, Jimmy and Elizabeth Miklavcic, co-artisitc directors of Another Language Performing Arts Company have combined performance with technology. The two founded the InterPlay series that uses technology to present two or more performances from different places (usually cities) to one or more audiences... the infrastructure of the networking and connection at the Intermountain Network and Scientific Computation Center on the University of Utah campus has made it possible for the Miklavcics to realize their projects.
Scott Iwasaki - Deseret News (03/21/10)
Ever heard of "live, real-time, distributed, surrealistic cinema?" (We hadn't either.) We have, however, seen the omission in our lives and are doing our best to rectify it via Another Language, a performing arts company at the University of Utah...InterPlay: AnARTomy features two dancers, poetry, a host of sketch artists, and digital animators, and requires nearly a dozen computer systems to compile live video feeds from four other universities...all to create a dynamic, collaborative performance.
The Leonardo Blog (04/15/09)
"Carnivale is Another Language's sixth yearly 'InterPlay" (its term for multimedia online performance occuring in different sites simultaneously), fusing the artistic and technological aspects of the performance more seamlessly than ever before."
Brian Staker - City Weekly (03/27/08)
"Though Another Language has been around for nearly two decades utilizing just about every artistic medium in its performances, its work enters completely new and exciting territory, one that requires constant technological upgrades, collaboration with other artists in different parts of the world and nearly a year's worth of work from conception to execution."
Kelly Keiter - Salt Lake City Magazine (04/2007)
"The group (Another Language), founded in 1985 has always tried to present experimental works that pushed the frontiers of artistic expression, but these recent performances (InterPlays) have showcased the cutting edge of technology as well.
Brian Staker - City Weekly (03/25/07)
"Beth Miklavcic built a Zen garden (for InterPlay: Dancing on the Banks of Packet Creek) with, among other materials, powdered drink mix, while a little girl unrolled white string around her. The string symbolized technology and the Internet, which started simply like a Zen garden, but was now overflowing with material."
Christy Karras - The Salt Lake Tribune (04/03/06)
"The motion and emotion come together for fresh, new experience that is on the cutting edge."
Sander Sharp - The Daily Utah Chronicle (8/11/94)
"Their (Another Language) concerts take the viewer into unchartered territory."
Nancy Melich - The Salt Lake Tribune (3/3/93)
"....among the finest artists in Utah."
Anne Poore - The Salt Lake Tribune (3/29/92)
"Eglantine, a new work created and performed by Beth Miklavcic, is a remarkable multimedia piece with videography by Jimmy Miklavcic. The symbolism is of a rose, but the imagery of the dancing figure in black with tangled braids moves into mysterious, decadent and even threatening realms, suggesting the decay that lurks just below the surface of all blooming, radiant things in their prime. Beth's dancing was vivid, strong, bold and original, and loaded with memorable images."
Dorothy Stowe - Deseret News (3/17/92)
"Another Language Studio on West Pierpont Avenue has housed many of the great Salt Lake performances in recent times. The latest is "Eglantine," a solo dance and video performance by Beth Miklavcic with videography by Jimmy Miklavcic...The Miklavcic's are committed not only to performance but to revealing process, learning and teaching. They are unassuming people who dare to push the edges of dance and performance."
Susan Levin - The Daily Utah Chronicle (11/8/91)
"Dancing inside and around a picture frame made 'Photographic Memory' a stunning and sensitive portrayal of a couples life together. The frame seemed to freeze moments in the performance, giving the number an ethereal quality."
Carolyn Wardle - The Daily Spectrum (05/31/91)
"Another Language's performance was stimulating and entertaining, a combination not always achieved by many performing groups."
Carolyn Wardle - The Daily Spectrum (05/31/91)
"Another Language (is) one of the more interesting performing arts companies in Salt Lake."
Steve Miller - The Daily Utah Chronicle (03/01/91)
"An utterly baffling component of the concert is the piece 'Goober in Your Golashes,' including movement, dance, music, distorted sound and familiar snippets ingrained in Americans' cultural consciousness from the products of mass media. The piece can be seen as being made up of 'non-connected motifs,' as if a number of old home movies had been spliced together. Whatever one may try to classify it as, it is fascinating and not easily dismissed."
Cuman David Cropper - The Daily Utah Chronicle (06/01/90)
"Another Language repertoire has grown as broad as everyone's imagination...They have broadened the definition of performing arts."
Joyce Marder - The Event (11/01/89)