Vilar PAC - STARS: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet

Vilar PAC – STARS: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet

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12:30pm

Vilar Performing Arts Center || Beaver Creek, CO

The STARS (Support The Arts Reaching Students) series of performances is offered to promote artistic, educational and cultural enrichment to local students with daytime shows at the theatre. Each year, the Vail Valley Foundation and Vilar Performing Arts Center provide free tickets to more than 6,000 Eagle County students to bring them the thrill of live performing arts.

Click here for more information on the STARS program.

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s bold vision – top global choreographers, distinctive groundbreaking repertoire, and virtuoso dancers – has fostered a jewel of a dance company in the American West.

ASFB’s informative and engaging lecture/demonstrations take students on a journey behind the scenes of a professional ballet company. Narrated by Executive Director Jean-Philippe Malaty, the curtain opens to reveal a company ballet class in progress. Students watch as the dancers move through regimented exercises, from the barre to the center, all the while learning about how dancers train, dancing in pointe shoes, and how to partner. Brave volunteers from the audience are even welcomed on stage to try their hand at partnering the ballerinas! The students are then treated to a performance of a work in the company’s repertoire, followed by a Q&A session with the dancers. ASFB’s hour-long lecture/demonstration is an exciting, educational activity that’s sure to leave students eager to learn more.