Heather Watts Emerging Artist Fund

The Heather Watts Emerging Artist Fund supports the Vail Dance Festival’s commitment to supporting rising stars in dance. The fund is named in honor of Heather Watts, the legendary Balanchine ballerina and influential creative collaborator for the Festival.

Thanks to a lead gift by Vail Dance Festival Committee Member Jonna Mackin, this fund will be used for the scouting and recruitment of emerging or pre-professional artists to join the Festival as guest artists or as Scholars-In-Residence and will also be used to support the staging of groundbreaking works of George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins in advance of and during the Festival. Please contact Martha Brassel at [email protected] with questions.

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