The Dairy is home to more than fifteen premier arts and community service organizations. These resident organizations are chosen on the basis of artistic quality, discipline community presence.
Contact:
303-938-8656
e-mail: info@3rd.org Visit 3rd Law online!
3rd Law Dance/Theater creates, presents and promotes original performances
drawing on theatrical, classical, modern, historical and traditional
dance. Third Law seeks to create provocative, entertaining performances
that engage the audience as well as the artist. The company believes
in the value of storytelling and the evening-length works favor narration
over abstraction.
Boulder
Ballet
Contact:
303.443.0028
email: info@boulderballet.org Visit Boulder Balletonline!
Founded in 1982, Boulder
Ballet is Boulder County's professional ballet theater company and
school. The company presents classical and contemporary works throughout
Boulder and the Denver metro area and collaborate with the Boulder
Philharmonic Orchestra. Boulder Ballet School provides excellent
ballet training for ages three-adult, in a uniquely artistic and
creative atmosphere. With superb technical and performance abilities,
many of their students have earned regional and national honors.
Boulder
County Arts Alliance
Contact:
303.447.2422
e-mail: info@bouldercountyarts.org Visit Boulder County Arts Alliance online! nl
Boulder
County Arts Alliance is a non-profit, 501(c)3, membership-based
organization. The Arts Alliance provides leadership, resources,
and advocacy for the arts, through grants, Business of Arts workshops,
exhibit opportunities, free event calendars, and more.ine!
The Boulder International Fringe Festival
Contact:720.563.9950 Fringe Fone
e-mail: info@boulderfringe.com Visit Boulder International Fringe Festival online!
The Fringe festival is an annual 12-day arts festival that includes theatre, dance, music, film, and visual art. Each year, the festival chooses between 70 and 100 artist groups through an open and public lottery. The unjuried nature of the Fringe Festival ensures a creative platform for the entire community. Fringe programs to date have explicitly featured seniors, kids, people with disabilities and culturally diverse artists as well as mainstream artists. The Fringe is accessible to all audiences and seeks to educate and engage the whole community.
BETC's mission is to present professional quality performances of
challenging or controversial plays. The four ensemble members guides
the artistic vision of the company in collaboration. In addition to
the ensemble members, BETC attracts accomplished guest artists from across the Front Range, as well as CU-Boulder and Naropa Universities.
Contact:
303.442.1415
e-mail: info@theupstartcrow.org Visit Boulder's Upstart Crow Theatre Company onl
The Upstart Crow is a classical ensemble theatre company. It produces
the world's greatest plays uncut, with a deep respect for the integrity
of the text, the playwright's intent, and the actor's art. ine!
Founded in 1999, this children’s
theatre company based in Louisville is led by Jeanie Balch and Amy
Austin and supported by dozens of volunteers. The productions, with
local children ages 6-18
in all the roles, receive enthusiastic reviews each time they are
presented. Parents of the actors overwhelmingly rave about the positive
atmosphere their children experience in this theatre company.
Download Audition Notice. Visit CenterStage Theatre Company online!
EcoArts
Contact: 303.449.2128
email: info.ecoarts@gmail.com Visit EcoArts online!
EcoArts is a unique collaboration of science, environmental, arts, and other organizations increasing understanding of climate change and the delights of living sustainably. Through an amazing array of performances, exhibits, talks, and tours, EcoArts offers innovative programs designed to inspire, educate, and empower us all through activities sparked by the arts.
Espress-oh at The Dairy
Contact: Julia Wrapp, 303.443.0350 Visit Espress-Oh! online!
Enjoy fresh made hot and cold sandwiches, homemade soups, freah baked goods from Boulder’s best bakeries, coffee, espresso drinks iced or hot, smoothies, bagels, cookies, juice and herbal tea iced and hot.
Catering available.
WiFi available in Dairy Lobby with cafe purchase.
Frequent
Flyers Productions, Inc (FFP)
Contact:
Nancy Smith, 303.245.8272
e-mail: nesmith@frequentflyers.org Visit Frequent Flyers Productions online!
Frequent Flyers Productions blends stunning aerial choreography
with technical modern dance. The work is lyrical, as movement flows
effortlessly from the aerial apparatus to the ground and vice versa,
extending the possibilities of both realms. Considered a pioneer
in aerial dance, the company's shows include site-specific and proscenium
pieces on a variety of apparatus: low-flying trapeze, bungee, ladders,
car parts, cargo nets, rope and harness, and invented apparatus.
Helander
Dance Theater (HDT)
Contact:
Danelle Helander, 303.473.9438
e-mail: danelle@peakpeak.com Visit Helander Dance Theater online!
Boulder-based
Helander Dance Theater was founded by Danelle Helander, Artistic
Director and Choreographer. HDT has presented a new concert every
year since 1980, making it the longest, continuously producing dance
company in Boulder. HDT's mission is to make a vital contribution
to our community through dance as a vehicle for creating greater
understanding, sharing, and healing of our local and global communities.
Imagine! Core Innovations
Contact:
Jason Averitt , 303.440.0644 Visit Imagine! Core Innovations online!
e-mail: javeritt@imaginecolorado.org Our mission is to cultivate community, relationships, and education by utilizing the arts and community resources to emphasize quality of interaction and friendship between all participants.
Imagination
Makers Theater Company
Contact:
Rosey Waters, 720.565.1055,
e-mail:info@imaginationmakers.org Visit Imagination Makers Theater online!
Imagination Makers is a professional, adult theater company that
tours to schools in the Boulder/Denver area. The primary focus is
to perform original plays with high production standards for children
and teens. The company has toured successfully in Colorado for 23
years, giving about 2,500 performances and reaching over half a
million young people.
Institute
For African American Leadership
Contact:
Malaika Pettigrew
e-mail: iaal@mindspring.com Visit IAAL online!
The Institute for African American Leadership (IAAL) is a program
of United Black Women of Boulder Valley, a non-profit organization
that provides social, educational, spiritual and emotional support
for African American families who live in Boulder County. IAAL services
the unique needs of our African American youth between the ages
of 10 to 18 by providing leadership skills development, community
building skills, enhancement of personal growth and self esteem,
and encouragement of academic excellence. This is done through activities
like cultural field trips, educational workshops, community service,
exploration of the arts, and celebration of cultural traditions.
International
Tap Association
Contact:
Marda Kirn, 303.443.7989
e-mail: ITA@tapdance.org Visit International Tap online!
The International Tap Association's mission is "to promote
the understanding, preservation, and development of tap dance as
an art form." ITA currently has over 730 members in 27 countries
including tap performers, teachers, choreographers, students, historians,
writers, critics, producers, presenters, companies, studios, schools,
universities, libraries, and fans. ITA offers members a variety
of services including its magazine "On Tap." Founding
members included Charles "Honi" Coles, Honorary Chairman
and Gregory Hines, Honorary President.
Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet was founded by dancer and choreographer Robert Sher-Machherndl in 2004, its mission is to bring change and new possibilities to the field of dance and its audiences via the performance of unpredictable and unexpected works that take risk and go somewhere meaningful. In a short time, Lemon Sponge Cake has received wide critical-acclaim, noted for Robert Sher-Machherndl’s uncompromising artistic vision and signature choreographic style danced by highly skilled performers and quality collaborators. "Funny, dark and provocative, 'Trust' was a highlight of the program" The New York Times and " a choreographer to watch for" The New York Times
Committed to education, the Lemon Sponge Cake Ballet School offers a training ground for both young and adult dancers, it identifies and nurtures individual strengths for freedom of expression for professional use or as a life enriching skill. It hosts a fully comprehensive ballet program to students age 3 through 18 taught by expert teachers. We also offer open community classes to adults of all ages and abilities in a wide range of disciplines.
Lemon Sponge Cake builds community in numerous other ways, it enlivens schoolrooms with performances at no charge, donates theater tickets to at-risk families and under-served communities and through inclusive community projects.
The Parlando School for the Arts
Contact:
303.442.0006
email: labergemusic@gmail.com Visit Parlando School online!
Parlando School for the Arts is Boulder's Premier Music School.
Parlando has a faculty of 50 of the region's most talented instructors
providing music lessons to over 600 students of all instruments, ages
and abilities including musical theater. Parlando's unique "Broadway
in Boulder Studios" musical theater program routinely hosts
world-class guest artists (including the Director of Casting and
Talent Development for Disney Theatrical Productions) and is home to
nearly all of the leads in local high school and middle school musical
productions.
Theatre13
Visit Theatre13 online!
Theatre13 is a non-profit professional resident theater company located in Boulder, Colorado dedicated to performing regional and world premiers of unusual, distinctive, and inspiring works of the highest quality. Theatre13 also runs a truly revolutionary new theater training program, known as Studio13, which seeks to explore and integrate both traditional scripted performance skills and the newly revived and reinvigorated Physical Theater disciplines.
