Opening Night

Performance Details

Opening Night: Digital Edition // 6pm MDT // Tune in on Facebook

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Underwritten by Jody and John Arnhold | Arnhold Foundation

The Vail Dance Festival: Digital Edition begins with a specially curated selection of performances from the past 10 years including debuts, revivals, and new works made in Vail. Hosted by Artistic Director Damian Woetzel, with appearances by a range of the extraordinary dancers and musicians who have made Vail a summer laboratory for creative collaboration.

Photo by Erin Baiano

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Celebrate the Beat: a tribute to Aretha Franklin
Music: Aretha Franklin Medley
Choreography by Ellen Weinstein, Tracy Straus, Kris Ashley
Dancers: the children of Celebrate the Beat with James Whiteside
Keyboard: Tony Kierlado

Keyboard: Jacob Lidard

Drums: Larry Dutmer

Trumpet: Connor Williams

Filmed at the 2019 Vail Dance Festival

 

Suite from Mazurkas (1958)

Music by Frédéric Chopin

Posthumous A Minor

Choreography by José Limón © José Limón Dance Foundation, Inc.

Dancers: Tiler Peck and Robert Fairchild

Piano: Cameron Grant

Filmed at the 2016 Vail Dance Festival

 

Apollo (1928) excerpt

Music by Igor Stravinsky

Choreography by George Balanchine. © The George Balanchine Trust.

Dancers: Unity Phelan and Calvin Royal III

Music: Brooklyn Rider, Double Bass: Kate Davis

Filmed at the 2019 Vail Dance Festival

 

Suite of Dances (1994) excerpt

Music by Johann Sebastian Bach

Choreography by Jerome Robbins. ©The Robbins Rights Trust.

Dancer: Herman Cornejo

Cello: Anne Richardson

Filmed at the 2018 Vail Dance Festival

 

Thousandth Orange (2019 Vail Commissioned World Premiere)

Music by Caroline Shaw

Choreography by Tiler Peck

Dancers: Isabella Boylston, India Bradley, Herman Cornejo, Christopher Grant, Lauren Lovette, Roman Mejia

Piano: Kurt Crowley

Violin: Colin Jacobsen

Viola: Nicholas Cords

Cello: Michael Nicolas

Filmed at the 2019 Vail Dance Festival

 

24^{t h} (2019 Vail Commissioned World Premiere)

Music by Caroline Shaw

Choreography by Lil Buck

Artists: Lil Buck with Caroline Shaw

Filmed at the 2019 Vail Dance Festival

 

This Bitter Earth (2012 Vail Commissioned World Premiere)

Music by Dinah Washington and Max Richter

Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon

Dancers: Isabella Boylston, Calvin Royal III

Music: Kate Davis, Catalyst Quartet

Filmed at the 2016 Vail Dance Festival

 

Elégie (1982)

Music by Igor Stravinsky

Choreography by George Balanchine. © The George Balanchine Trust.

Lighting by M.L. Geiger

Dancer: Carla Körbes

Viola: Nicholas Cords

Filmed at the 2012 Vail Dance Festival

 

1・2・3・4・5・6 (2016 Vail Commissioned World Premiere)

Music based on a rhythm by Steve Reich

Choreography and improvography by the Artists

Developed by Damian Woetzel and Michelle Dorrance

Lighting by M.L. Geiger

Dancers: Michelle Dorrance, Melissa Toogood, Lil Buck, Robert Fairchild

Filmed at the 2016 Vail Dance Festival

 

Fandango (2010 Vail Commissioned World Premiere, New Staging 2019)

Music by Luigi Boccherini

Choreography by Alexei Ratmansky

Dancer: Roman Mejia

Music by: Brooklyn Rider

Guitar: Alberta Khoury

Percussion: Dario Natarelli

Filmed at the 2019 Vail Dance Festival

 

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