Vail Dance Festival: International Evenings of Dance I

The International Evenings of Dance, which, since 1993, have brought a succession of extraordinary artists to the Vail stage, continue the tradition this summer, with dancers making their Festival debuts including American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Chloe Misseldine and Royal Danish Ballet principal dancer Ryan Tomash. Returning dance stars will include Broadway and ballet star Robbie Fairchild, American Ballet Theatre’s Aran Bell, Isabella Boylston, Catherine Hurlin, Calvin Royal III, and James Whiteside, New York City Ballet’s Chun Wai Chan, Joseph Gordon, Sara Mearns, Roman Mejia, Mira Nadon, Tiler Peck, and Unity Phelan, tap dance icon Michelle Dorrance, modern dance force Melissa Toogood, and street dance pioneer Lil Buck. These dance stars will be joined by rising artists including Dominika Afanasenkov, Olivia Bell, Gilbert Bolden III, India Bradley, Naomi Corti, and KJ Takahashi from New York City Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet’s Philip Duclos, ABT’s Takumi Miyake, Philadelphia Ballet’s Mayfield Myers, independent dancers Stephanie Terasaki, Rachel Lockhart (MJ: The Musical), Zack Gonder and Daisy Kate Jacobson (Twyla Tharp’s Diamond Jubilee national tour), and Spencer Lenain, Kayla Mak, and Emiko Nakagawa who are all former Vail Dance Festival Scholars-in-Residence and are now emerging young artists in the professional dance world. See some of the brightest stars in dance today in role debuts, classic repertoire, and contemporary styles and genres.