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Your support makes ballet thrive in Western Colorado.
Your generosity enables Colorado West Ballet (CWB) to inspire creativity, foster community, and engage more than 20,000 people each year through 37 professional performances for audiences of all ages.
Thank you for helping make this possible!
For over three years, CWB has created unparalleled opportunities for the art of ballet in Western Colorado. Through our performances and outreach education programs, CWB has become an integral part of the region’s arts landscape and a vital community resource for enrichment.
Because of your love and support for the Arts — and ballet in particular — these experiences are reaching families across rural Colorado. You are ensuring that young dancers and audiences in small communities are not forgotten, and you’re providing livelihoods for professional dancers and artists right here at home.
Your monthly gift today will:
Bring professional ballet productions to rural communities.
Give young, local dancers the opportunity to perform alongside professionals.
Put the shoes on our dancers’ feet and the costumes on their backs.
Provide meaningful employment for professional artists — dancers, choreographers, set designers, lighting designers, costumers, and more.
Help make Grand Junction a thriving regional center for the Arts.
Colorado West Ballet seeks to provide rural and enterprise zone communities on the Western Slope of Colorado with performing arts they may otherwise never experience. CWB is the only professional ballet company situated between metro Denver, Salt Lake City and Albuquerque communities that carries this purpose. In Western Colorado, 34 of 35 counties are designated rural and 19 of 35 counties are designated enterprise zones.
Theresa Kahl’s lifelong dedication to dance is the driving force behind the establishment of the Colorado West Ballet (CWB), the first and only professional ballet company on the Western Slope of Colorado. For more than 30 years, Theresa has been deeply embedded in the dance community, instructing, choreographing, and nurturing young dancers through her work at Absolute Dance. Her passion for dance, coupled with her entrepreneurial spirit, led her to create not only one of the region's most successful dance schools but also a professional ballet company that now serves as a cultural cornerstone for Western Colorado.
Theresa saw an unmet need for professional ballet in the region. While Denver is home to several professional companies, the Western Slope had none. Inspired by her love for dance and the growth of the local community, she knew it was time to fill that void. In 2021, Theresa founded CWB, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to bringing professional ballet to the region. Her goal was simple yet ambitious: to provide Western Colorado with high-quality, professional performances and to offer local dancers the opportunity to work alongside experienced mentors.
Theresa’s decision to form CWB was rooted in her belief that every dancer deserves a place to grow and succeed, regardless of where they live. She saw too many local dancers working hard but lacking access to professional performances and guidance. CWB fills this gap, offering performances and a space for aspiring dancers to learn from the professionals.
Community support is essential to CWB’s continued success. By attending performances and contributing to the company, the people of Western Colorado play a vital role in keeping professional ballet alive in the region.
Organization name
Colorado West Ballet
other names
Colorado West Performing Arts Company
2022
Tax id (EIN)
87-2651119
Category
Arts, Culture & Humanities
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
2460 Patterson Road, Suite #5Mesa County, CO, US
Montrose County, CO, US
Delta County, CO, US
Gunnison, CO, US, 81230
Garfield County, CO, US