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A LOOK BACK AT TILER PECK’S VAIL DANCE FESTIVAL CREATIONS

The Vail Dance Festival is widely regarded as a destination where world-class artists venture into new creative territory with endless possibilities and horizons. Here in the heart of the Colorado Rockies is a place where dancers, musicians, and choreographers take adventurous steps on a path of artistic discovery and collaboration that often leads to exciting outcomes here in Vail and elsewhere around the world. That is especially true for Tiler Peck, the famed New York City Ballet principal dancer who began choreographing in Vail in 2016 at the invitation and encouragement of Artistic Director, Damian Woetzel.

Her most recent Vail Dance Festival commission, Piano Songs, a thrilling new solo for American Ballet Theatre star Aran Bell featuring music by Meredith Monk, will make its regional premiere on September 18 at the opening of the Fall For Dance Festival at New York City Center. To celebrate we are looking back on all of Tiler's amazing Vail Dance Festival commissions that have led up to this special moment. Which one was your favorite?

2018 VAIL DANCE FESTIVAL WORLD PREMIERE

LINCOLN SQUARE
Music by Adam Wachter
Choreography by Tiler Peck
Costumes by Martha Bromelmeier
Lighting by Brandon Stirling Baker

CHRISTOPHER GRANT     TILER PECK    ROMAN MEJIA
New York City Ballet

Violin: JOHNNY GANDELSMAN
Piano: KURT CROWLEY

This premiere was underwritten by Donna & Donald Baumgartner

2019 VAIL DANCE FESTIVAL WORLD PREMIERE

THOUSANDTH ORANGE
Music by Caroline Shaw
Choreography by Tiler Peck
Costumes by Tiler Peck, courtesy of BodyWrappers
Lighting by Brandon Stirling Baker

ISABELLA BOYLSTON* INDIA BRADLEY**
HERMAN CORNEJO* CHRISTOPHER GRANT**
LAUREN LOVETTE** ROMAN MEJIA**

Piano: KURT CROWLEY Violin: COLIN JACOBSEN
Viola: NICHOLAS CORDS Cello: MICHAEL NICOLAS

Commissioned by the 2019 Vail Dance Festival
with the generous support of Donna & Donald Baumgartner.

 

2021 VAIL DANCE FESTIVAL WORLD PREMIERE

AND SO
Music by Caroline Shaw
Choreography by Tiler Peck
Lighting by Brandon Stirling Baker

MIRA NADON
New York City Ballet

CALVIN ROYAL III
2021 Artist-In-Residence
American Ballet Theatre

CHRISTOPHER GRANT
New York City Ballet

ROMAN MEJIA
New York City Ballet

AND SO is made possible through the generous support of Donna & Donald Baumgartner.

2022 VAIL DANCE FESTIVAL WORLD PREMIERE

VARIATIONS ON A THEME
Music by Arcangelo Corelli
Choreography by Tiler Peck
Lighting by Brandon Stirling Baker

POLINA CHEPYK     EVA HRYTSAK       YEVA-MARIIA SKORENKA
2022 Vail Dance Festival Scholars-In-Residence

Violin: JOHNNY GANDELSMAN
Piano: CAMERON GRANT

2022 Vail Dance Festival commission. Special thanks to our dedicated supporters who contributed to our 2022 Vail Dance Festival Scholars-In-Residence.

2023 VAIL DANCE FESTIVAL WORLD PREMIERE

SILENT WOODS
Music by Antonín Dvorák
Choreography by Tiler Peck
Lighting by Brandon Stirling Baker

DEVON TEUSCHER*       CORY STEARNS*
American Ballet Theatre

Cello: MICHAEL NICOLAS
Piano: TONY SIQI YUN Underwritten by Donna & Donald Baumgartner

2024 VAIL DANCE FESTIVAL WORLD PREMIERE

PIANO SONGS
Music: Ellis Island, Paris, and Folkdance by Meredith Monk By arrangement with Boosey and Hawkes, Inc., publisher and copyright owner
Choreography by Tiler Peck
Lighting by Brandon Stirling Baker

ARAN BELL

Piano: DEREK WANG & JOEL WENHARDT

Generously underwritten by Donna & Donald Baumgartner, co-commissioned by New York City Center Fall for Dance Festival.

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