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WATCH: Derek Hough dazzles Salt Lake City with holiday dance spectacle

Marina Knight
Dec 20, 2024

Derek Hough brought his electric holiday show to Salt Lake City December 18-19. Photo: courtesy Eccles Theater

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Emmy Award-winning dancer and choreographer Derek Hough brought his “Dance for the Holidays” tour to Salt Lake City’s Eccles Theater on December 18 and 19, 2024. The festive production featured Hough and his ensemble performing dynamic routines set to classic and contemporary holiday music, delivering a high-energy celebration of the season. Co-created and directed by Emmy winners Napoleon and Tabitha Dumo, known as NappyTabs, the show combined intricate choreography with vibrant stage production.

During the show Hough said he and his wife were house hunting in Utah.

TownLift’s Randi Sidman-Moore caught some of the action up close.

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Marina Knight began her career in journalism working for The Stowe Reporter in 2003, where she was a staff writer and later the publication’s Web Editor. She covered the Winter Olympic Games in 2006 and 2010, and has worked as a freelance writer covering outdoor topics as well as art criticism. Most recently, Knight was Editor-in-Chief of SkiRacing.com. She has won multiple awards from the New England Newspaper Association for environmental reporting, feature writing and art criticism. She lives with her family in Park City. In her free time you’ll find her in the mountains

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