Ballet West's tricks for a socially distanced dance performance: Limited casts, married dancers.

Salt Lake City’s premier dance troupe, Ballet West, was determined to get a show on the stage of the Capitol Theatre, so artistic director Adam Sklute set up some strict rules: No more than eight dancers onstage at any time, similar space limits in the rehearsal space, everybody in masks — and the only couples dancing had to be married to or living with each other.

That’s how Ballet West’s November production, headlined by Twyla Tharp’s “Nine Sinatra Songs,” happened. Read my interview with Sklute and two choreographers who premiered new works in the show, in this story at sltrib.com.