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Sundance Institute Next week, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival begins—but not in any way we've ever experienced it before. The annual independent film showcase has gone almost entirely virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with a smaller slate of films, and people around the world will have a chance to experience the programming from their own homes. One thing that remains the same, however, is the question of what to watch with the time (and tickets) you have. Sundance has always been a place for disc...

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Ken Pao | Clark Clifford What a time it must be to be a young artist—or indeed, a young label. Besides figuring out how to make one's own music, newbies and industry vets alike have been forced to navigate a pandemic for nearly a year. That's certainly been the reality at the brand-new Utah-based record label Wonderwild Records, a project which found Mindy Gledhill and Fawn Goodman teaming up to create opportunities for fresh-faced artists ... right before the pandemic hit. The two met through a profe...

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Repertory Dance Theatre had originally planned to premiere its streaming recorded version of the annual Emerge production on Jan. 8. But the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact arts organizations in ways even beyond forcing them to present their work to audiences in different formats. According to Nicholas Cendese—Artistic Associate and Development Director for RDT, who also choreographed one of the Emerge pieces—work on the production was delayed when dancers had to isolate due to possible COVID exposure. "No one got sick, and everyone came back negative," Cendese says. "Even with a ...