When DanceAspen first reached out to Christel Stiver, wine director at the Hotel Jerome, about pairing wine with dance, she said she wasn’t sure what to think.
“Aspen is a place where big things are possible,” an uplifting statement made in the video reel shown at DanceAspen’s gala on July 14 at the Hotel Jerome.
This spring saw a flurry of food and wine experiences, dance performances, art and architecture lectures, shorts film screenings, and more. Catching up on several such occasions this week, I’ll start with the Women in.
DanceAspen, the company founded by former Aspen Santa Fe Ballet artists in 2021, will perform Friday and Saturday at the Wheeler Opera House. Seven months after the nonprofit’s founding, the company appears to have been fully embraced by Aspen’s ballet fans.