Vail Dance Festival

08/08/2025

Have you seen NOW: Premieres? It’s still streaming on YouTube - check out BalletX along with a slew of world class artists in an evening of new works!

NOW: Premieres is the Festival’s annual showcase of new commissioned dance works, all making their debut on one legendary night, performed by an extraordinar...

08/04/2025

📣Enjoy NOW: Premieres from anywhere! All new works by the greatest dance makers - be the first to see the fruits of their labor here in the mountains!
The performance will begin at 7:30pm MT/9:30pm ET TONIGHT, Monday, August 4.
Livestream made possible by Nel Shelby Productions

NOW: Premieres is the Festival’s annual showcase of new commissioned dance works, all making their debut on one legendary night, performed by an extraordinar...

07/30/2025

07/27/2025

✨The 2025 Festival is now underway! Take a peek at highlights from our Opening Night program, with gorgeous performances by Festival Artists from American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and the electric Alonzo King LINES Ballet to close the show!

Video by Nel Shelby Productions

07/25/2025

Tonight is Opening Night at the 2025 Vail Dance Festival! Festival Artists from American Ballet Theatre & New York City Ballet will take the stage alongside the unparalleled Alonzo King LINES Ballet!

limited tickets are available at bit.ly/VDF25_OpeningNight

🎥LINES dancers Adji Cissoko & Shuaib Elhassan rehearse "Feelin' Uneasy" from the ballet Suite Etta in preparation for Opening Night of the 2025 Festival.

07/21/2025

✨Merce Cunningham's work has become a fixture at the Fest, thanks to the brilliance of Melissa Toogood, longtime Festival Artist and our 2025 Artist-In-Residence!
2025 will deliver both Cunningham classics and a world premiere from Toogood herself!
Tix & info available at vaildance.org
Opening Night 2025: bit.ly/VDF25_OpeningNight
Open House with Melissa Toogood: bit.ly/VDF25_OpenHouseMT
NOW: Premieres (feat. a Toogood world premiere): bit.ly/VDF25_NOW

🎥 A Cunningham minEVENT, with choreography by Merce Cunningham, staged by Melissa Toogood, rehearsed at the 2024 Festival,
with Chun Wai Chan, Harrison Coll, Alessio Crognale-Roberts, Savannah Green, Daisy Kate Jacobson, Jules Mabie, Unity Phelan, Frances Lorraine Samson, Stephanie Terasaki, Melissa Toogood, James Whiteside, Damian Woetzel, and music by Kate Davis, Ryan Fogal, Alex Sopp, Caroline Shaw, and Joel Wenhardt.
Choreography ©The Merce Cunningham Trust

07/14/2025

✨MONDAY, August 4: New work is a hallmark of the Vail Dance Festival - don't miss 2025's NOW: Premieres program, when world premieres from today's greatest dance makers take the stage!
Tix & info: bit.ly/VDF25_NOW

🎥 Behind the scenes of Pam Tanowitz's 'secret story ballet,' a world premiere at the 2024 Vail Dance Festival.
Music by Composer-In-Residence Caroline Shaw (2024) & Franz Schubert (1824).
Dancers: Isabella Boylston, Spencer Lenain, Calvin Royal III, and Melissa Toogood.

07/07/2025

✨The 2025 Festival opens in just a few weeks!
Check out the full schedule of events at vaildance.org
Onstage and off, the Vail Dance Festival offers something for everyone! Don't miss:
💫World-class performances spanning the range of dance,
💫Masterclasses for advanced students to learn from today's stars,
💫Award-winning podcast Conversations on Dance with exclusive interviews from artists at the Fest,
💫Free and family-friendly events in Vail Village, Beaver Creek, and Avon.

🎥 Mira Nadon & Chun Wai Chan rehearse George Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream Divertissement Pas de Deux with pianist Alan Moverman at the 2024 Festival. Choreography © the George Balanchine Trust.

05/05/2025

🎉Huge congrats to Philip Duclos ( ), a former Scholar-In-Residence and now beloved Festival Artist — he is the recipient of Denmark’s Ballettens Venner Talent Prize this season!! As a member of the Royal Danish Ballet, Philip was recognized for his substantial achievements over his 3 seasons with the company by Princess Benedikte of Denmark. He has performed featured roles in works by Wayne MacGregor, George Balanchine, and Harold Lander, most notably making his debut this season as Prince Désiré in The Sleeping Beauty.

Reflecting on this significant moment, Philip shared his thoughts with us:
“I am so honored to have been awarded this talent prize. I am so grateful for the opportunities that I have been given so far this season, and how much I have been able to grow this year.”

Congratulations again to Philip — we look forward to all that’s to come!!

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1 - Philip Duclos rehearses Taglioni and Bournonville’s La Sylphide onstage at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater at the 2024 Festival. Photo by Chris Kendig.
2- HKH Princess Benedikte and Philip Duclos
3 - Philip Duclos rehearses George Balanchine’s Who Cares? at the 2021 Festival. Choreography © The George Balanchine Trust. Photo by Chris Kendig.