2015 VIDF Patron Packet

Patron Packet

Support the Festival We are forever grateful to have donors who share our commitment and passion for the performing arts!

Your contribution and your generosity allow us to provide the highest level of cultural, educational, and entertainment opportunities to our community and guests. Your support helps us maintain and expand the quality programming of the Vail International Dance Festival.

Season Presenters

$50,000

Our Season Presenters represent the highest level of involvement associated with the Vail International Dance Festival, as well as the most exclusive. Members will be front and center for the entire festival, interacting with dancers and companies backstage and te, while enjoying the best seats in the house and reserved tables at special events.

• Listing in the Festival Program* and/or nightly inserts • Opportunity to observe closed rehearsals • Twenty-two (22) VIP reserved seats for any performance(s) (excluding UpClose: Apollo) • Invitation to post performance Champagne-on-stage receptions • Preferred ticket ordering & VIP ticket service • Borgen Family Patron Plaza Access • Six (6) Invitations to the Festival Gala • Four (4) invitations to the Patron/Dancer Brunch • Invitation to La Tour Luncheon • VIDF Parking Pass (GRFA only) • Four (4) tickets to the White Party • Champagne at your reserved seats • Meet-&-greets backstage & photo with the artists • Post-performance dinner with dancers • Underwriting recognition from stage • Bio in the Festival Program • Host recognition of the Festival Gala, reserved table pre and post performance

Underwriters Circle

$25,000

• Listing in the Festival Program* and/or nightly inserts • Opportunity to observe closed rehearsals • Sixteen (16) VIP reserved seats (Sec. 2&3) for any performance(s) (excluding UpClose: Apollo) • Invitation to post performance Champagne-on-stage receptions • Preferred ticket ordering & VIP ticket service • Borgen Family Patron Plaza Access • Four (4) Invitations to the Festival Gala • Two (2) invitations to the Patron/Dancer Brunch • Invitation to La Tour Luncheon • VIDF Parking Pass (GRFA only) • Two (2) tickets to the White Party • Champagne at your reserved seats • Meet-&-greets backstage & photo with the artists • Post-Performance dinner with dancers • Underwriting opportunities • Underwriting recognition from stage • Bio in the Festival Program

July 27 - August 10, 2015

$10,000

Diamond Dress Circle

• Listing in the Festival Program* and/or nightly inserts • Opportunity to observe closed rehearsals • Twelve (12) VIP reserved seats (Sec. 2&3) for any performance(s) (excluding UpClose: Apollo) • Invitation to post performance Champagne-on-stage receptions • Preferred ticket ordering & VIP ticket service • Borgen Family Patron Plaza Access • Four (4) invitations to the Festival Gala • Two (2) invitations to the Patron/Dancer Brunch • Invitation to La Tour Luncheon • VIDF Parking Pass (GRFA only) • Two (2) tickets to the White Party • Champagne at your reserved seats • Meet-&-greet backstage & photo with the artists • Post-performance dinner with dancers • Underwriting opportunities

$5,000

Platinum Dress Circle

• Listing in the Festival Program* and/or nightly inserts • Opportunity to observe a closed rehearsal • Eight (8) VIP reserved seats (Sec. 2&3) for any performance(s) (excluding UpClose: Apollo) • Invitation to post performance Champagne-on-stage receptions • Preferred ticket ordering & VIP ticket service • Borgen Family Patron Plaza Access • Four (4) invitations to the Festival Gala • Two (2) invitations to the Patron/Dancer Brunch • Invitation to La Tour Luncheon

Gold Dress Circle

$2,500

• Listing in the Festival program* and/or nightly inserts • Opportunity to observe a closed rehearsal • Six (6) reserved Seats for any performance(s) (excluding UpClose: Apollo) • Invitation to post performance champagne-on-stage receptions • Preferred ticket ordering & VIP ticket service • Borgen Family Patron Plaza Access • Two (2) invitations to the Festival Gala

Silver Dress Circle

$1,250

• Listing in the Festival Program* and/or nightly inserts • Opportunity to observe a closed rehearsal • Four (4) reserved seats (Sec. 1&4) to any performance(s) (excluding UpClose: Apollo) • Invitation to post performance champagne-on-stage receptions • Preferred ticket ordering & VIP ticket service *Opportunity to upgrade tickets, based on availability.

Additional fees will apply.

Vail Valley Member

$500

• Listing in the Festival program* and/or nightly inserts • Opportunity to observe a closed rehearsal • Two (2) reserved seats (Sec. 1&4) to any performance(s) (excluding UpClose: Apollo) • Invitation to post performance Champagne-on-stage Reception *Opportunity to upgrade tickets, based on availability.

Additional fees will apply.

Patrons have the best seats in the house!

There’s no better time to support the Vail International Dance Festival!

For more information, please call the Vail Valley Foundation at (970) 777-2015

* Deadline to be included in the Festival Magazine is May 22, 2015

July 27 - August 10, 2015

2015 Underwriting Underwrite a complete evening of dance

$25,000/performance

SAVION GLOVER & THE OTHERZ July 27 at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater The Tony Award-winning legend of tap, Savion Glover returns to Vail to kick off the Festival with an electrifying performance, accompanied by his jazz quartet, The Otherz.

“Virtuosity [is] his vehicle — extreme virtuosity.” –The New York Times DANCE HOUSE: BALLROOM/DANCE TV REMIX July 28 at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater A new take on Vail favorites, Dance TV and Ballroom Spectacular. Featuring a star-filled stage presentation, followed by special performances throughout the amphitheater. With artists including World Champion Rhythm dancers Liana Churilova and Emmanuel Pierre-Antoine, ballerina Tiler Peck, Chicago “Footwork” trailblazer King Charles, and Memphis Jookin star Ron "Prime Tyme" Myles.

SUNSET o639 HOURS with BALLETX August 1 at the Vilar Performing Arts Center With live musical accompaniment, the Festival’s first full-length evening ballet takes the stage at the Vilar Center. Sunset, o639 Hours is inspired by a true story, and in this acclaimed ballet we discover a world described by The New York Times as “…beautifully elegiac, taking us into the hearts of people who lived decades ago…”

BALLET BLAST National Ballet of Mexico, Colorado Ballet, BalletX, BalletCollective and American Ballet Stars August 2 at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater The Vail International Dance Festival welcomes the National Ballet of Mexico for the first time, joined by Colorado Ballet, BalletX, a selection of international ballet stars, and another Festival newcomer, New York’s nascent BalletCollective – all brought together for a diverse evening of ballet, from classic to contemporary, with music by the cutting edge string quartet, Brooklyn Rider.

NOW: PREMIERES August 4 at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater NOW: Premieres features world premieres by a group of today’s most dynamic choreographers, including John Heginbotham, Pam Tanowitz, Silas Riener and Rashaun Mitchell, Matthew Neenan, and Lil Buck, with dancers from Dance Heginbotham, BalletX, artists from New York City Ballet, and several of the choreographers themselves.

“A Whirl of Premieres, From Jookin to Jetés.” –The New York Times UPCLOSE: APOLLO August 5 at the Vilar Performing Arts Center The UpClose series of rehearsal-style performances continues for 2015, this year focusing on George Balanchine’s seminal masterpiece Apollo* to the music of Igor Stravinsky. This landmark ballet premiered as Apollon Musagète in 1928 as part of Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes season, and over the course of his lifetime, Balanchine made changes to the ballet, adjusting and cutting décor, simplifying costumes, and ultimately eliminating the opening scene depicting Apollo’s birth with his 1979 revival. Guided by Festival Artistic Director Damian Woetzel, this UpClose performance will examine the ballet from its original incarnation to what Balanchine last staged before his death in 1983. Featuring Festival stars including Carla Körbes, Tiler Peck, Herman Cornejo, and Chase Finlay.

INTERNATIONAL EVENINGS OF DANCE I & II August 7 & 8 at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater A magnificent cast of stellar dance artists from around the world takes the stage in these signature Festival performances. “…new partnerships and debuts that would please the hearts of fans thousands of miles away.” –The New York Times

BALANCHINE BLAST August 9 at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater Celebrating George Balanchine, one the 20th century’s greatest artists and founder of New York City Ballet, this perforAmerican Ballet Theatre superstar Herman Cornejo in Balanchine’s seminal masterpiece, Apollo.

DANCE $20.15 August 10 at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater For closing night of Festival 2015, an evening for everyone with specially priced tickets for every seat in the house. Dance for $20.15 features Colorado Ballet and guest artists from the 2015 Festival.

Underwrite a NOW: Premieres Choreographer

$10,000/choreographer

August 4 - NOW: Premieres “A Whirl of Premieres, From Jookin to Jétes.” -The New York Times John Heginbotham “…a strong choreographic personality – a refreshing mixture of casualness and discipline, lunacy and sincerity…” - The New Yorker Pam Tanowitz

- The New York Times

Silas Riener & Rashaun Mitchell continually shown new facets of them.” – The New York Times Matthew Neenan “[Matthew Neenan is] one of today’s foremost dance poets.” - The New York Times Lil Buck “Lil Buck’s range of expression, always bringing qualities in the music to the surface, was extraordinary.” -The New York Times

BalletX dancers perform Matthew Neenan’s Switch Phase from the NOW: Premieres program of the 2012 Vail International Dance Fesival.

Photo: Erin Baiano

Underwrite an Artist-In-Residence $15,000 Carla Körbes was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and began her ballet training at age 1996, Peter Boal danced with her as a guest artist of the school and encouraged her to come to New York to study at the School of American Ballet. For the academic year 1997–1998, her tuition was paid by Alexandra Danilova so she could continue studying at the School of American Ballet. apprentice with New York City Ballet. She joined the company as a member of the corps de ballet in 2000 and was the Janice Levin Dancer Honoree for 2001–2002.

Ballet as a soloist. Ms. Körbes was promoted to principal dancer in 2006.

In 2002, Ms. Körbes performed Richard Tanner's Ancient Airs and Dances for the nationally televised PBS Live from Lincoln Center broadcast, "New York City Ballet's Diamond Project: Ten Years of New Choreography."

Ballet, Ms. Körbes has performed with Peter Boal and Company. In 2007, she performed in the worldwide company debut performance of Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company at the Vail International Dance Festival. She has also performed as a guest artist at the Dance Open gala in St. Petersburg, Russia in April 2010.

Andrea Selby, Festival Illustrator

Carla Körbes, 2015 Artist-In-Residence Photo: Patrick Fraser

$10,000

Ms. Selby considers her art a visual documentation of the process of developing a dance performance, from the initial idea to the opening night. She has been sketching dance rehearsals and shows since she was a child, when she performed in various productions with the New York City Ballet.

Her dance teacher, Madame Alexandra Danillova, encouraged her to use her drawing skills to capture the movement of dance, as Degas did. As an adult, she spent many years working as a professional artist and illustrator. Through her friendship with Wendy Whelan, she observed many contemporary choreographers such as Christopher Wheeldon create ballets with her and realized the importance of documenting dance creation through art. Ideally, she tries to begin with the choreographer's ideas and show, through sketches, the development of a ballet into a polished performance. The world of dance is her artistic inspiration and passion.

She believes that her artwork, which is often combined with written quotes heard Sketch by Artist-In-Residence, Andrea Selby

photography cannot.

Underwrite the Scholar-In-Residence

$10,000

Scholar to be announced at a later date.

2014 marked the inaugural year of the Vail International Dance Festival’s Scholar-In-Residence program. The program was a professional dancer. Mentored by the Festival artistic director and Festival artists, the program allows the Scholar-InResidence to participate in the artistic and cultural life of one of the most unique and renowned dance festivals in the world.

Underwrite a festival musician Available August 2, 4, 7, 8 & 9

$10,000/performance

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Damian Woetzel has once again paired some of the best dancers in the world with some of the greatest musicians. Live music brings a richness to dance, it elevates the art form and the mutual interpretation of the piece allows the musicians respond to the dancer and the dancers to the musicians. Musicians that will be joining the Festival this summer include…

Brooklyn Rider has been hailed as “the future of chamber music” (Strings), the game-changing string quartet Brooklyn Rider presents eclectic repertoire in gripping performances that continue to draw rave reviews from classical, world, and rock critics alike. NPR credits Brooklyn Rider with “recreating the 300-year-old form of string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble”; the Los Angeles Times dubs the group “one of the wonders of contemporary music”; and Vice likens its members to “motocross daredevils who never screw up a stunt.” Equally at home in clubs and concert halls, the quartet has played venues as varied as Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, Le Poisson Rouge, Japan’s Todai-ji, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn’s Littlefield, the Library of Congress, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, and South by Southwest. Through visionary programming and global collaborations, Brooklyn Rider’s “down-to-earth demeanor… demystifies contemporary classical music and invites everyone into the tent” (Time Out New York).

Cameron Grant joined the New York City Ballet in 1984, became a Solo Pianist there 2 years later, and was appointed pianist of the NYCB Orchestra in 1998. He has performed all the major piano ballets of the company such as the Goldberg Variations, Dances at a Gathering, Davidsbundlertanze, and Waltz Project as well as virtually all the piano concerti of the repertory including those of Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Hindemith, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Mr. Grant has been the soloist in premieres of ballets by Richard Tanner, Robert La Fosse and Christopher Wheeldon, and toured as a featured performer with the company on trips to Paris, Edinburgh, Athens, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Italy, Russia and Denmark.

In 2004, he appeared in the Emmy Award-winning Live from Lincoln Center broadcast of New York City Ballet, as well as being invited (along with 3 other members of NYCB), to perform at the Kennedy Center Honors before the President.

Cristina Pato has already opened historical new paths for the gaita (the Galician bagpipes). In 1998, Ms. Pato became the first female gaita player to release a solo album, and since then she has collaborated with world music, jazz, classical and experimental artists including the Chicago Symphony, Yo-Yo Ma, The Chieftains, Arturo O'Farril, World Symphony Orchestra, and Paquito D'Rivera.

Gyan Riley was the first full-scholarship graduate guitar student at the San Francisco Conservatory. He has completed various compositional projects, including those commissioned by the Carnegie Hall Corporation, the American Composers Forum, and the New York Guitar Festival. Gyan's diverse work now focuses on his own compositions, improvisation, and contemporary classical repertoire. Recent performance highlights include Carnegie Hall, London’s Barbican Theatre, the All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival, the Big Ears Festival, Moogfest, and soloing with the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra at Kimmel Center. Over the years, Riley has performed throughout Europe, Canada, Latin America and the US, both as a soloist and in various ensembles.

Jon Batiste is considered by many to be one of the most exciting and progressive new crossover talents on the scene today. A “Movado Future Legend” award recipient, and a “Steinway Performing Artist”, Jon has performed in innumerable prestigious events and venues across the world. His modern take on the American songbook, through the channels of a virtuosic pedigree in jazz and classical music, is attracting critical acclaim as well as audiences across all demographics.

Together with his band Stay Human, Jon is creating a unique grassroots movement that encourages accessibility and appreciation in the art of the live performance. Apart from his natural focus, Jon is also a noted advocate for music education (Traveling Ambassador for Music Unites, Associate Artistic Director for the National Jazz Museum) and a regular figure in television and film (HBO’s Treme, Spike Lee’s “Red Hook Summer”).

Underwrite International Evenings of Dance Artists Herman Cornejo, American Ballet Theatre

$15,000/artist

Tiler Peck, New York City Ballet Lil Buck, New Styles Krew Wendy Whelan, International Independent Artist

$10,000/artist

Isabella Boylston, American Ballet Theatre

Jared Angle, New York City Ballet

Misty Copeland, American Ballet Theatre

Zachary Catazaro, New York City Ballet

Elena Heiss, National Flamenco Artist, 2014 Scholar-In-Residence

, Boston Ballet

Misa Kuranaga, Boston Ballet

Antonio Douthit-Boyd, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Lauren Lovette, New York City Ballet

Chase Finlay, New York City Ballet

Sara Mearns, New York City Ballet

Joseph Gordon, New York City Ballet

Lisa Celeste Sims, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Ron “Prime Tyme” Myles, New Styles Krew

Underwrite the Celebrate the Beat Performance

$10,000

Each summer, the Vail International Dance Festival hosts a free Celebrate the Beat (CTB) Pop Hop camp for nearly 100 children. CTB uses dance and music to teach children to “learn how to learn” through dance classes accompanied by live music. This program has helps children discover their potential by motivating them to believe in themselves, value artistic expression and develop a personal standard for excellence. Their week of hard work is celebrated with a performance on the International Evenings of Dance performance on August 7.

Charles “Lil Buck” Riley performs onstage with Vail children of Celebrate the Beat during the 2014 Vail International Dance Festival’s International Evenings of Dance Photo: Erin Baiano

Underwrite a Company BalletCollective: recognition on August 2 in Ballet Blast - $10,000 BalletCollective brings together artists, poets, composers, choreographers, and designers to collaborate as equals, group—a collecttive—encouraged to think outside of what it is they usually do. In multiple combinations a composer collective work develops its own organic cross-pollination process as work goes forward on a piece, with each artist asked to contribute to the work of the others and physically and digitally share what they are doing as sketches, concepts, audiences. Each work’s creative life does not end at performance, but continues to be re-conceived as long as the work remains performed. BalletCollective was founded by choreographer Troy Schumacher in 2010.

BalletX: recognition on August 1 in Sunset o639 Hours, August 2 in Ballet Blast and August 4 NOW: Premieres - $20,000 BalletX, Philadelphia’s premier contemporary ballet, unites distinguished choreographers with an outstanding company of world-class dancers to forge new works of athleticism, emotion, and grace. Through the daring vision of its award-winning founders,Christine Cox and Matthew Neenan, BalletX challenges the boundaries of classical ballet by encouraging formal experimentation while preserving rigorous technique. The company is committed to producing new works of the highest quality and integrity that bring the combined visions of choreographers and dancers to life and cultivate in audiences a collective appetite for bold, new dance.

Colorado Ballet: recognition on August 2 in Ballet Blast and August 10 in Dance for $20.15 - $20,000 classical ballet and innovative contemporary dance. Colorado Ballet is a multi-faceted institution, encompassing a 30 member professional performing company, a studio company for advanced dance students who aspire to professional careers in dance, an Academy instructing the next generation of dancers, and an amazing education and outreach department that enables thousands to experience the magic of dance. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Gil Boggs and his artistic team, Colorado Ballet remains committed to producing the highest quality dance.

Dance Heginbotham: recognition on Aug. 8 in International Evenings of Dance and Aug. 10 in Dance for $20.15 - $20,000 structured, technically rigorous, and theatrical choreography, frequently set to the music of contemporary composers. The company had its world premiere in January of 2012 on the Millennium Stage at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and has since been presented by Barysnnikov Arts Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carolina

National Ballet of Mexico: recognition on August 2 in Ballet Blast - $10,000 For more than 50 years, the National Ballet of Mexico has been committed to the expression of classical ballet, the tradi-

Artists of Colorado Ballet in Concerto Barocco Photo: Sue Daniels

Artists of Dance Heginbotham Photo: Janelle Jones

Join us this summer!

July 27 - August 10, 2015