Imagine Ballet Theatre was created and organized in 2004, under the vision and direction of Raymond Van Mason, former Ballet West Principal Artist and nationally recognized choreographer and teacher. He wanted to create a pre-professional "youth" ballet company to afford aspiring young dancers professional training and performance experience. The Company may utilize up to sixty dancers, ages nine and up, in a regular season. IBT makes it's home in downtown Ogden on Washington Blvd. and 24th street.

Weber State University's Department of Performing Arts is large enough to provide the atmosphere and motivation you need to excel, and personal enough to enable you to stand out as an individual.

The Office of Cultural Affairs strives to establish and maintain the role of Weber State University as the center of cultural life and performing arts education on the Northern Wasatch Front.

The Movement Coalition is a semi-professional dance company composed of Weber State University students and alumni that performs at various art festivals and shows.

Marlene Barnett is being honored for her Lifetime Contribution to the Arts. She grew up in Ogden, Utah and graduated from Ogden High School, Weber College and the University of Utah, where she says, “My music teachers were always my favorites.” She performed with the Weber State Musettes and in the Ogden Symphonic Choir. Marlene went on to sing in choirs everywhere she has lived. Her love of music and the arts has lead her to work as an advocate in the arts for many area organizations. Marlene retired from Weber School District having taught elementary education for 40 years in Salt Lake City, the Weber District and various other schools around the country. She has served on the Ogden Symphony Ballet Association Board of Directors two different times and is now in her tenth year of service on that Board. She chaired the OSBA Youth Guild for the Performing Arts for six years and has been instrumental in bringing guests from the Utah Symphony and Ballet West to perform for our youth at least twice a year. A mentor to many of the young members, she has served as an advisor for nearly 15 years.

OSBA contracts with Utah Symphony, Ballet West and Children’s Dance Theatre to present concerts in Ogden.

Imagine Ballet Theatre was created and organized in 2004, under the vision and direction of Raymond Van Mason, former Ballet West Principal Artist and nationally recognized choreographer and teacher.

Built following the discovery of King Tut's tomb, this elaborate theater began life in 1924 as a movie house.

Quickly becoming a festival favorite, Ogden’s Peery’s Egyptian Theater plays host to a wide variety of Sundance Festival Films. This year the selection included Director Rachel Perkin’s remake of Jimmy Chi’s very successful stage musical Bran Nue Dae. In her introduction to the film Perkins remarked, “recently a critic called my film, “a little cheesy” my film is not a “little cheesy” it is a double cheese whopper!”