Shirley Ririe

Women in the Arts » Dance

Notable dance teacher, choreographer, and co-founder (along with Joan Woodbury) of the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. Over the course of her career, Ririe has choreographed over 100 works for various dance and professional theater companies. She also consulted for the National Endowment for the Arts and is a retired professor of modern dance at the University of Utah, where she taught for thirty-nine years. (Ririe was also a Fulbright professor in Hong Kong and Aukland, New Zealand.) Among Ririe’s numerous honors are the Plaudit Award by the National Dance Association and the Utah Governor’s Award for Arts Education.