I was surprised to read (thought the links section) that the company had scheduled 22 performances of Sleeping Beauty. Is that a typical run for Colorado Ballet? Most companies I know of about that size do considerably fewer performances of any one program, except Nut.

(Just occurred to me -- does that include dedicated school shows?)

There was an article in The Denver Post yesterday about that discussed the number of Colorado Ballet's Sleeping Beauty performances. Here's the Link:

Colorado Ballet Article

The above article posted by Amy's Mom states,



The tally for the rest of the season is:

Nutcracker: 30 performances
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake: 8 performances over one week in February
Cinderella: 13 performances over 5 weekends
Choreographer's Showcase 7 performances over 5 weekends

That's a very strange schedule.

Five weekends?!

Golly -- who else uses that theater? Up here in Seattle, the ballet used to share with the opera and the symphony, and everyone clawed for more time (in a well-bred manner, of course). Now that the symphony has its own hall, the ballet and the opera still have to contend with other users. I can't imagine a situation where they would have five (I'm assuming consecutive) weekends for anything other than Nutcracker.

I imagine that the Choreographer Showcase (above) shares time with some other event, considering the math, but still...

Golly.

The Colorado Ballet shares a venue with Opera Colorado. It looks like Opera Colorado got the better dates this year. The Choreographer Showcase does share time with some other event: Cinderella. It will be interesting to see how they split up the principal dancers between the 2 programs.

It also means that there is no April-May ballet, which is really unfortunate. On warm Spring evenings, the audience-watching can be almost as much fun as the performance.