Vail Dance Festival 2023
Vail Valley Foundation
July 28 - August 7, 2023
Photo by Chris Duggan
Artistic Director: Damian Woetzel
New Works Choreographers: Kyle Abraham, Lil Buck, Adji Cissoko, Larry Keigwin, Matthew Neenan, Justin Peck, Tiler Peck, Jamar Roberts, Melissa Toogood, Caili Quan
Staging Associates: Patricia Delgado & Melissa Toogood
Head of Artistic Planning & Rehearsal Director: Russell Kaiser
Music Director: Shelbie Rassler
Teacher and Repetiteur: Margaret Tracey
Creative Associate: Heather Watts
Assistant to the Artistic Director: Michael Sheridan
Senior Director of Operations: Peggy Wolfe
Senior Manager Operations: Lisa Babb
Festival & Operations Senior Manager: Cameron Morgan
Festival & Operations Manager: Harper Addison
Directors of Production: Kyle Grant & Tricia Tolliver
Technical Director: Alberto Ruiz
Resident Lighting Designer: Brandon Sterling Baker
Guest Lighting Designer & Lighting Director: Roya Abab
Costume Director: Marlene Hamm
Wardrobe Assistants: Ash Ditaranto, Sarah Newman
Audio 1: Chris Sannino
Production Audio: Joe Samala
Production Stage Manager: Betsy Ayer
Stage Manager: Nicole Mitchell Mommen
Assistant Stage Managers: Kirk Baltzell, Angelina Pellinni, Heather Olcott
Rehearsal & Venue Managers: Alexis Hinman & Ashley Pennington
Crew Chief: Elizabeth Nguyen
Stage Operations Crew: Shayla French
Electricians: Anna Brevetti, Mar1 Gonzalez, Becky Nussbaum, Heather Pyne, Miranda Trembley
Festival Videographer: Nel Shelby
Festival Photographer: Chris Duggan
Festival Interns: Maddie Brown, Chloe Westhoff, Carissa Campbell, Micaelina Carter, Lucy Dantz, Libby Dusek, Paige Kaiser, Devin Lyon, Ryan Norman, Marley Poku-Kankam, Sierra Riley, Emmie Urquhart
Individual Dancers: Olivia Bell, Isabella Boylston, India Bradley, Lil Buck, Chun Wai Chan, Jeffrey Cirio, Adji Cissoko, Patricia Delgado, Denys Drozdyuk, Phillip Duclos, Robbie Fairchild, Catherine Hurlin, Kyle Ikuma, Spencer Lenain, Lauren Lovette, Sara Mearns, Roman Mejia, Miriam Miller, Mayfield Myers, Mira Nadon, Dario Natarelli, Tiler Peck, Unity Phelan, Caili Quan, Calvin Royal III, Ben Rudisin, Antonia Skobina, Cory Stearns, KJ Takahashi, Stephanie Terasaki, Devon Teuscher, Melissa Toogood, James Whiteside
Musicians:
Composers: Caroline Shaw, David K. Isreal, Gabriel Kahane, Shelbie Rassler, Tyshawn Sorey
Brooklyn Rider Quartet: Johnny Gandelsman, Colin Jacobsen, Nicholas Cords, Michael Nicolas
Individual Musicians: Youba Cissokho, Cameron Grant, Shelbie Rassler, Michael Scales, Davóne Tines, Joel Wenhardt, Tony Siqi Yun
Festival Companies & Artists:
BalletX:
Artistic & Executive Director: Christine Cox
Associate Artistic Director: Tara Keating
Dancers: Eli Alford, Shawn Cusseaux, Francesca Forcella, Savannah Green, Jared Kelly, Annika Kuo, Skyler Lubin, Jonathan Montepara, Jerard Palazo, Ben Schwartz, Ashley Simpson, Andrea Yorita
Dance Aspen:
Founder & Executive Director: Laurel Jenny Winton
Company Manager: Kaya Wolsey
Dancers: Sammy Altenau, Matthew Gilmore, Blake Krapels, Madeleine Scott, Kaya Wolsey
L.A. Dance Project:
Artistic Director & Co-Founder: Benjamin Millepied
Lucinda Lent: Executive Director
Dancers: Lorrin Brubaker, Jeremy Coachman, Courtney Conovan, Daphne Fernberger, David Adrian Freeland Jr., Mario Gonzalez, Oliver Greene-Cramer, Daisy Jacobson, Payton Johnson, Shu Kinouchi, Nayomi Van Brunt
Martha Graham Dance Company:
Artistic Director: Janet Eilber
Executive Director: LaRue Allen
Dancers: So Young An, James Anthony, Alessio Crognale, Laurel Dalley Smith, Lloyd Knight, Jacob Larsen, Marzia Memoli, Lorenzo Pagano, Anne Sounder, Richard Villaverde, Leslie Andrew Williams, Xin Ying
Music From The Sole:
Artistic Directors: Leonardo Sandoval & Gregory Richardson
Company: Josh Davis, Naomi Funaki, Orlando Hernández, Noé Kains, Roxanne King, Gerson LanzaJosé Carlos, Cruzata Revé, Gregory Richardson, Leonardo Sandoval, Lucas Santana, Gisele Silva, Ana Tomioshi, Jennifer Vincent