Tickets on Sale Now for Colorado Ballet's 2025 Summer Festival Programming
Performances at Green Box Arts Festival and Vail Dance Festival
Denver, CO (May 20, 2025) – Leading into the company’s 65th season, Colorado Ballet is celebrating a vibrant summer of dance as they will enjoy the opportunity to perform at two festivals. It’s an honor for Colorado Ballet to take the stage as the headlining performing arts event for the 17th annual Green Box Arts Festival, taking place June 27 – July 12, 2025 in Green Mountain Falls, CO. Additionally, Vail Dance Festival Artistic Director Damian Woetzel invited Colorado Ballet to participate in the 37th annual internationally acclaimed Vail Dance Festival as one of five major companies presenting specially curated performances, July 25 – Aug 5, 2025 in Vail, CO and throughout the Vail Valley.
Colorado Ballet’s Artistic Director, Gil Boggs, elaborated on the selected repertoire the company will present, beginning with a series of performances at Green Box Arts Festival featuring excerpts from Sleeping Beauty alongside several works choreographed by Sandra Brown, including The Caged Bird Sings, set to Aleksey Chistilin’s “Pictures from the Past” with poetry selections from Maya Angelou, read by Demi-Soloist Ariel McCarty. Colorado Ballet will also perform the premiere of a new contemporary work which the company commissioned choreographer Yoshihisa Arai to create for the upcoming season’s final repertory production, MasterWorks; the work features 15 dancers choreographed to Rachmaninoff’s “Piano Concerto No. 2.”
“I also want to acknowledge the privilege of returning a second consecutive year to Vail Dance Festival, where the company will perform Concerto Barocco with guest artists from New York City Ballet as part of a special Balanchine Celebration night,” shared Boggs. “We will also participate in additional programs Dancing in the Park and International Evenings of Dance. Events such as these offer rewarding and enriching experiences for our dancers to expand their networks and be inspired artistically while having additional opportunities to perform,” he continued.
For Colorado Ballet’s Executive Director Sameed Afghani, festival programming such as this offers a unique and personal way for the company to meaningfully engage in the community: “I am excited to introduce new audiences outside of the Denver metro area to classical ballet and innovative contemporary work from world-renowned choreographers like Yoshihisa Arai, alongside educational community-focused workshops. There’s going to be something for audiences of all ages to appreciate the joy of dance, and we hope you’ll join us!” added Afghani.
COLORADO BALLET AT GREEN BOX ARTS FESTIVAL
Saturday, June 28 at 2:00PM | Performance in Green Box Studio | Sallie Bush Community Center
Saturday, June 28 at 7:00PM | Performance in Green Box Studio | Sallie Bush Community Center
Tuesday, July 1 at 10:00AM | Movement Storytime Workshop | Sallie Bush Community Center
Tuesday, July 1 at 11:00AM | Groove Together: A Family Dance Party | Sallie Bush Community Center
Wednesday, July 2 at 12:00PM | ArtDesk Conversation with Colorado Ballet | Church in the Wildwood
Wednesday, July 2 at 1:30PM | Dance Masterclass with Colorado Ballet | Sallie Bush Community Center
Thursday, July 3 at 7:00PM | Performance in Green Box Studio | Sallie Bush Community Center
Saturday, July 5 at 2:00PM | Performance in Green Box Studio | Sallie Bush Community Center
Saturday, July 5 at 7:00PM | Performance in Green Box Studio | Sallie Bush Community Center
Sunday, July 6 at 2:00PM | Performance in Green Box Studio | Sallie Bush Community Center
COLORADO BALLET AT VAIL DANCE FESTIVAL
Monday, July 28 at 7:30PM | Balanchine Celebration performance of Concerto Barocco with NYCB | Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater
Thursday, July 31 at 5:30PM | Part of Dancing in the Park Program | Avon Performance Pavilion at Nottingham Park
Friday, August 1 at 7:30PM | Part of International Evenings of Dance I Program | Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater
TICKETS & FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
General public tickets for Green Box Arts Festival are available now online or over the phone at (719) 465-3065. View the full schedule of events.
Tickets for Vail Dance Festival are available online at the official ticketing site or over the phone at (970) 845-8497. More ticketing and box office information is available online. View the full schedule of events.
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ABOUT COLORADO BALLET
Presenting exceptional classical ballet and innovative contemporary dance through performances, training, education and community engagement, Colorado Ballet continues to inspire and grow an increasingly diverse audience base in Denver, Colorado. Established in 1961 by Lillian Covillo and Freidann Parker, Colorado Ballet is a non-profit organization celebrating 65 years of excellence. As a world-class professional company serving over 100,000 national and international patrons, Colorado Ballet presents 58 performances annually to sold-out audiences in the 2,000 seat Ellie Caulkins Opera House. The Company’s 40 professional dancers and 22 studio company dancers come from all over the world. Colorado Ballet’s The Armstrong Center for Dance, a 35,000 square foot building, boasts eight state-of-the-art professional dance studios and amenities for the professional Company. Under the direction of Artistic Director Gil Boggs, Colorado Ballet performs classical ballet masterpieces, full-length story ballets and its critically acclaimed repertory production MasterWorks, featuring varied works from neoclassical ballets to world premieres. The Raydean Acevedo Colorado Ballet Academy serves over 1,200 students from toddlers to seniors each year. Colorado Ballet’s Education & Community Engagement offers programs to students and community members, making over 25,000 contacts and reaching over 200 schools and organizations annually. Participants come from a variety of backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses including youth, families, teachers, and people with and without disabilities. For more information, please visit coloradoballet.org.
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ABOUT GREEN BOX
Green Box launched in 2009 in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado, and has grown into a year-round incubator of multidisciplinary visual and performing arts. The organization provides residents and visitors from Colorado and around the world the opportunity to participate in the creative arts in the natural beauty that awaits at the foothills of Pikes Peak. Anchored by an annual summer arts Festival, Green Box also engages with the community year-round through an active Artist-in-Residence program, arts education, and public art installations.
ABOUT VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION & VAIL DANCE FESTIVAL
The Vail Valley Foundation is a nonprofit organization with a mission to provide leadership in arts, athletics, and education, and address community needs to enhance the Vail Valley as a place to live, work, and visit. In education they operate YouthPower365. In athletics they host the GoPro Mountain Games and Xfinity Birds of Prey. In arts they operate the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater and Vilar Performing Arts Center and host the Vail Dance Festival. The Vail Dance Festival is a two-week celebration of exceptional artistry taking place in the heart of the Colorado Rocky Mountains each summer. Led by Artistic Director Damian Woetzel, the 37th annual internationally acclaimed festival this year will include 14 performances and over 30-plus events throughout the season celebrating excellence and innovation in the world of dance.
