Canyon Concert Ballet

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1940s Prom Gala

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We are deeply saddened to announce that due to COVID-19 precautions, we are canceling our 1940s Prom Gala.

If you have already purchased tickets, please consider donating the ticket cost to CCB. If you would like a refund, please message us and we will process that for you right away.

If you were planning on purchasing tickets, please consider donating that amount to CCB instead.

Even though we are not able to be together in person, we will still have our silent auction available online and our voting for Prom King and Queen available online as well. The page is now live, and the items/voting will be added starting Tuesday, March 24. Bidding will be open until 5pm on Saturday, March 28. You can visit the bidding and voting pages here:  https://qtego.net/qlink/ccballet

The Prom Gala is our largest fundraiser of the year, so we appreciate any support you can give at this time.

Thank you, and please be safe.

~Jenna Riedi

Where:
Online: https://qtego.net/qlink/ccballet

When:
Starting at noon on Tuesday, March 24 you can bid on auction items and vote for Prom King and Queen. Bidding and voting will close at 5pm on Saturday, March 28

Supporting:
The 2020 Prom Gala supports CCB’s Outreach Programs. As a nonprofit, CCB does not believe that financial limitations should be an obstacle to dance, so we provide several outreach opportunities: Scholarship Program, Free Voucher Program, and Free Community Events. We also strongly believe in collaboration in the local arts community, fusing dance with other art forms in Fort Collins to bring dance to more people and make dance more accessible.

Here are just a couple of the things we did this past season:

– Given away over 400 tickets at the 2018 The Nutcracker to students and seniors
– Have scholarships available to under-served families, giving out around $800 in free tuition each month
– Presented 3 free school shows of Little Mermaid to over 600 elementary and middle school students
– Gave away over 300 tickets for The Little Mermaid to students and seniors
– Partnered with Larimer Chorale for our fall performance, Ballet & Beer
– Partnered with the Fort Collins Symphony for The Nutcracker and Musical Zoo’s Peter and the Wolf

Tax Time Creates a New Season of Giving to Support Our Work

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A new program allows you to use your state income tax return to make a big difference in your community.

If you’re due a state income tax refund, this state program gives you the opportunity to use some or all of it to directly support a local nonprofit that matters to you like Canyon Concert Ballet.

The new program, promoted through the ReFUND CO awareness initiative, lets you choose where your donation goes. All you have to do is:

  • Decide how much of your state income tax refund to donate (all or a portion of it).
  • Enter “Canyon Concert Ballet” and our registration number “20093007180 “ in the Donate to a Colorado Nonprofit Fund line on your state tax return or tax software – or give just give this info to your tax preparer when you share your tax documents.

You can learn more details about the program at RefundWhatMatters.org.

Last year, Colorado returned more than $1 billion in refunds to 1.9 million state taxpayers. Imagine how much this could support local community causes like us!

Because our important work is never done, we’re always in need of new funds to revitalize our organization and recharge our work.  ReFUND CO shows you how you can support our mission at a critical time of the year!

Randy Wray Endowment

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Canyon Concert Ballet is looking to establish our first ever official endowment at the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado in honor of our 40th Anniversary Season!

We are using the remaining funds from the original Randy Wray Choreographic Fund to help start this permanent endowment at the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado. However, a minimum of $10,000 is needed to establish the endowment at the Community Foundation. A generous donor is matching all donations up to $5000 to this endowment in Randy Wray’s memory. Help us raise the funds needed to set up a permanent endowment for Canyon Concert Ballet, named after the amazing and loved Randy Wray.

Donate today to support the memory of Randy Wray and to help Canyon Concert Ballet secure the funding for a permanent endowment, ensuring our success for the next 40 years and beyond!

The original Randy Wray Choreographic Fund was created as a memorial fund for Randy Wray, the Artistic Director of Canyon Concert Ballet from 1990-1996. Randy grew the performance company of CCB from a small group of local enthusiasts to a semi-professional company performing four full-evening length shows per year. Under Randy’s leadership CCB produced the classics of The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, and The Nutcracker, in addition to many of his own choreographed works. Randy’s productions were emotionally evocative and never failed to make the audience both laugh and cry. Randy died of AIDS related illness in July, 1996.

With this endowment, Randy’s legacy promoting the joy of dance will live through many future generations.

Colorado Gives Day 2019!

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Donate Today Here!

This year marks Canyon Concert Ballet’s 40th Anniversary (our Ruby Anniversary!) as a nonprofit organization serving the Northern Colorado community.  For forty years, we have been bringing dance experiences to tens of thousands of people of all ages.  It has been an honor, and we are so excited for the next forty years as Northern Colorado’s nonprofit dance school and ballet company! 

Our School teaches almost 400 dancers of all ages and abilities every month the joy of dance.  Our Company puts on stellar performances with gorgeous choreography, including our annual The Nutcracker with the Fort Collins Symphony.  And our Youth Ensemble teaches teamwork, while providing invaluable performance experience. 

We invite you to support Canyon Concert Ballet this year with a donation in honor of our 40th Anniversary!  We remain incredibly grateful to you, our supporter, who allows us to continue providing dance to the Northern Colorado community.  It is thanks to generous people like you that we are able to provide dazzling performances for the community and a vibrant dance school for all ages and abilities who wish to learn dance. 

Please make an investment today, and help us reach our goal of $4,000 for our 40th Anniversary, for both the future dancers of the world, and to help us continue providing professional performances!

From all of us at Canyon Concert Ballet, we would  like to wish you a wonderful holiday season full of family, friends, and, of course, dance!

Thank you – You keep us dancing!

~Jenna Riedi, Executive Director

Donate Today Here!

Support CCB Dancers in Puerto Rico!

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Canyon Concert Ballet has been invited to send three of our dancers/faculty to Puerto Rico to participate in the Danza en el Tablao event. This event for our dancers will run from January 29 – February 3, 2020 and we are looking to raise $1200 to support their trip!

You can make a donation for this amazing opportunity here – thank you!

It is with great pleasure that two CCB dancers and our school director will be a part of such a special event: Jenna Smith, Emma Kimbal, and Analia Weber. During their stay, our school director, Analia Weber, will also be offering a free master class to dance students on the island. This is a great opportunity to foster future artistic collaborations and dance education opportunities for our dancers, and a true honor for us to be invited to participate! Your donation will support the three dancers by helping with travel costs (flights, shuttles, food). If more money is raised than is spent for this opportunity, additional funds will be saved for future dance education opportunities for our dancers and faculty.

Danza en el Tablao/ Floorboard Dances

This event was started in 2008 by the renowned dancer and choreographer Paulette Beauchamp in the historic building of Cuartel de Ballaja. Located in front of El Castillo del San Felipe el Morro, the Cuartel de Ballaja was built from 1854 to 1864 in order to house the Spanish and Puerto Rican regiments in Old San Juan. Nowadays, the Cuartel de Ballaja houses the following: a dance school, a music school, the Museo de las Americas, the Puerto Rico Academy of Spanish Language, and the State Office of Historic Conservation. Inspired by the beauty and history of the building, Paulette Beauchamp created the Floorboard Dances. The performances happen two Fridays a month and the event is the host of many important dance figures on the island.

This year, Paulette has wanted to reach out to those that have left the island as a way to continue to grow its roots to the mainland. Paulette Beauchamp is a graduate of State University of New York at Purchase. She has danced classical repertory with Ballet Concierto of Puerto Rico and modern repertoire with Sarah Stackhouse and Kevin Wynn from the José Limón Dance Company. In her personal choreographic search, Paulette finds rhythmic richness, gesture and color in influences as varied as her own Afro-Caribbean culture, classical ballet, contemporary dance, the contrasting drama of ancient Japanese tradition, and other styles of theater that include illusions and masks.

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