The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) has announced the 24 IMI Skills Competitions finalists that will compete at the live national finals in November.
A Harrowing Plane Ride, Images Carved In Stone, And A Haunting Native Flute Are The Stuff Of Legends.
By Margaret Regan
WHEN MICHAEL UTHOFF came West seven years ago to become
artistic director of Ballet Arizona, he pledged to make dances
inspired by his new environment; or as he puts it, to try
to subjugate my artistry to the nature and culture that surrounds
us. That s how he found himself in trouble in a tiny airplane on
a dark night in Canyon de Chelly a few years back. He and composer
Brent Michael Davids, a Mohican transplanted to Arizona, were