A New American Dance Company
From the creative minds at Ballet Nouveau Colorado
Upcoming Performances
Summer Community Events
Dance Mixology
May 22-June 15 – Unleash your pent-up inventiveness. Spend your Wednesday nights and Saturday mornings at Wonderbound, and participate in an adults only, free-wheeling choreographic workshop. $25 each.
Dance Fest
June 27, 2013 at 7:30pm – Witness five of Colorado’s top dance companies as they join their creative talents to produce an evening of exceptional dance. 7dancers , Fiesta Colorado, Hannah Kahn Dance Company, Kim Robards Dance and Wonderbound (BNC) will each showcase their individual styles and join together in a finale collaboration to round out the evening’s entertainment.
Untitled #28 at the Denver Art Museum with Nick Cave
June 28, 2013 from 6-10pm – Take a look at how the west was worn as DAM staff pair paintings with period artifacts. Nick Cave’s Soundsuits along with the Wonderbound Hares will invade the museum throughout the night with musical and dance performances.
Photo courtesy of Mark Sink and Redline
Perpetual Beauty
Special Encore Performance – July 19 at 7:30pm
Wonderbound’s acclaimed dancers will once again share the stage with a handpicked ensemble of The Colorado Symphony’s distinguished musicians in the irresistible evening of new dance by Artistic Director Garrett Ammon. Featuring “From Darkness to Light” by acclaimed Israeli-American composer Ofer Ben-Amots and Tchaikovsky’s intoxicating “Serenade for Strings,” Perpetual Beauty promises to be an uncommon celebration of the human spirit.
A Season of Wonder
Wonderbound’s 2013-2014 Season
Featuring the renowned choreography of Artistic Director, Garrett Ammon, the season kicks off with a Halloween inspired performance bringing illusionist Professor Phelyx, and Jesse Manley together with the Wonderbound Hares. From there, Wonderbound brings audiences a little romance at the Valentines day performance featuring Confluence String Quartet and a world premiere ballet by Wonderbound Artist, Sarah Tallman. The season concludes bringing music, dance and the written word together in a collaborative journey featuring Ian Cooke and Michael J. Henry of the Lighthouse Writers Workshop. The 2013-2014 season promises to be like nothing experienced before, and with the special additional performance of the Nutcracker with the Colorado Conservatory of Dance in December, it is not to be missed. Season subscriptions on sale now.
Latest Press
Over the course of five years, the artistic vision of Garrett Ammon and Dawn Fay has helped to define Ballet Nouveau Colorado (BNC) as a creative leader in the state of Colorado.
To continue to move this vision forward and free it to blossom into its full potential, the structures supporting this innovative work and the brand that captures its essence must be built anew.
By collaborating with artists across a spectrum of mediums, they have created transformative experiences that upended notions about how dance can be created and shared in the community.
It’s honestly hard to describe… their style, their flavor, what to expect when you see them perform. I would have to say that they extend beyond dancers; they are flat out artists. They are incredible when performing a pas de deux in pairs, or as a company in perfect precision. They come in all shapes and sizes and there are no rankings amongst the dancers. They are disgustingly perfect and somehow both ethereal and absolutely raw.
…a heart-wrenching, lean and graceful plunge into the deep end of truth.
Artist Statement
If I had to distill my creative approach to a single phrase, it would be “a shared journey of discovery and possibility.” This has led me to work with an ever-growing list of collaborating artists and organizations. These undertakings have produced artistic creations that erase boundaries between mediums, and engage artists and audiences in candid explorations of the human experience.
I cherish these intimate journeys and the relationships that have grown out of them. They have changed me at my core and drive me to ask more of myself each day. They have opened worlds to me and left me dumbfounded, unable to fathom my own great fortune in knowing such remarkable human beings.
I see these projects as metaphors for our capacity to create change in our world. To truly understand one another, we must move beyond conversation and actively engage in the creation of something new. Only then can we appreciate the expansive beauty of our shared humanity.
We live in a remarkable age. Humanity continues its journey of astonishing intellectual discovery. The boundless strength of the human spirit is persistently illuminated in ways big and small. But at our core, we are still primal creatures, children of our forebears, wrestling with fears and failings, and driven by instincts hard-wired across the ages.
These collisions of capacity, courage and compulsion are what define us. We must revel in our complexity, we must embrace it, celebrate it, and be bound to it. We must reach far into our past and strive relentlessly toward our future. We must be forthright about our frailties and lay bare our souls.
We must dream, we must work, we must be rigorous. Only then might we glimpse the true possibility that resides within all of us.
This is the essence of WONDERBOUND.
– Garrett Ammon
The Vision
By the close of this decade, WONDERBOUND will be celebrated as a treasure in the international dance community and will be a crown jewel in Denver’s artistic landscape. It will be a leader in a burgeoning creative renaissance that will define Denver as a cultural capital in the world. It will help to obliterate boundaries between mediums to uncover new possibilities in artistic expression. And, WONDERBOUND will help re-imagine how the performing arts are created, supported and shared in a rapidly evolving world.
Photography by Mark Sink, Kristen Hatgi & Garrett Ammon.
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