Colorado Concert Ballet
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| General information | |
| Name | Colorado Ballet |
| Previous names | Colorado Concert Ballet |
| Year founded | 1961 |
| Founders | Freidann Parker and Lillian Covillo |
| Principal venue | Ellie Caulkins Opera House |
| Website | coloradoballet.org |
| Artistic staff | |
| Artistic Director | Gil Boggs |
| Ballet Mistress | Sandra Brown and Lorita Travaglia |
| Music Director | Adam Flatt |
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| Orchestra | Colorado Ballet Orchestra |
| Official school | Colorado Ballet Academy |
| Associated schools | Colorado Ballet Academy |
Colorado Ballet encompasses a 31-member professional performing ballet company, a studio company for advanced dance students, an Academy, and an education and outreach department. Based in downtown Denver, Colorado, Colorado Ballet serves more than 125,000 patrons each year.
The professional company performs primarily at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in the Denver Performing Arts Complex and one show each year at the Robert and Judi Newman Center for Performing Arts at the University of Denver. Colorado Ballet performs classical ballets and contemporary works. The Colorado Ballet Orchestra performs with the Company at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, either at three or four productions a year.
With an annual operating budget exceeding $7.8 million, the company employs more than 150 people on either a full-time or part-time basis during the year.
Colorado Ballet received the 2009 Colorado Masterpieces Award. As part of the award, Colorado Ballet toured Colorado in the 2009–2010 season as a part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius initiative, funded by the Colorado Council on the Arts.
Colorado Ballet has performed at the Vail International Dance Festival in 2011, 2015 and 2017.
In 2013, Colorado Ballet purchased a building in Denver's Art District on Santa Fe. The company moved to its new location in August 2014.
In 1961, Lillian Covillo and Freidann Parker established Colorado Concert Ballet to showcase talented students they had been teaching at their ballet school. Their first production, The Nutcracker, played to sold-out houses in Denver's Bonfils Theatre. By 1968, the Company hit the road for its first tour of the state. By 1976, Colorado Concert Ballet produced 33 performances of The Nutcracker and three other productions that season. By October of that year, Colorado Concert ballet achieved full professional status with a total roster of eight professional dancers. Two years later, the Board of Trustees changed the Company’s name to Colorado Ballet.
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