Aspen Dance Fest
If you have the opportunity to visit Aspen during July and August, you absolutely must use the opportunity to see many of the performances that are part of the Aspen Dance Fest. The Aspen Dance Fest features critically acclaimed contemporary dance companies from around the United States.
The Aspen Dance fest runs for five consecutive weeks each summer. The Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Company hosts and performs in the Aspen Dance Fest. The company is made up of eleven dancers who were all classically trained. The school was founded in 1995 by Bebe Schweppe. The company’s debut was in 1996 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
All performances for The Aspen Dance Fest are held at the Aspen District Theater, which is located inside the Aspen Elementary School on Maroon Creek Road. For a wonderful evening of entertainment and culture, be sure to catch at least one performance during the Aspen Dance Fest – even if you have to make a special summer trip to Aspen to do it. You may also catch performances by the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Company closer to home when they go on tour each year.
Taste Festival
Winter time isn’t the only time to visit Aspen. There is a great deal going on each summer, and one of the highlights each June is the Taste Festival. This is also called the Food & Wine Magazine Classic, and people from all over the world arrive in droves for this three day event.
Cookbook authors, wine experts, restaurateurs, and famous chefs can all be found here. Wolfgang Puck, Jacques Pepin, and Andrea Immer have all attended the Taste Fest in Aspen – because if food is your life, this is the place to be! Each year, there are over eighty cooking and food demonstrations, and visitors can get a taste of it all.
There are many seminars and wine tasting sessions held throughout Aspen during these three days as well. If you want to attend this incredible mouth watering event, make your reservations months in advance – or you will miss out! If you don’t make your reservations early, try to find a hotel with space available in a nearby town, and drive back and forth to the event – check the local camp grounds as well. Just make sure you don’t miss this event!
