CDF creates opportunities for dialogue between artists and community, while providing experiences in which dance and the arts become a catalyst for personal inspiration and a means to revitalize community.
Dance has the power to energize, transform, and create community.
It can bring together people of different generations, races, ethnicities, and help people to focus on common understandings rather than disparate views. As an arts presenter, Colorado Dance Festival brings the joy and wonder of dance and is committed to making dance and the arts available and accessible to diverse people within our community. Organizational Background Now entering it's nineteenth season, Colorado Dance Festival prides itself on being a year round arts organization known for its commitment to development of emerging and culturally diverse, as well as fostering a program that utilizes that arts as a vehicle for positive social change. Founded in 1982 by Marda Kirn, CDF is nationally respected for its program excellence and for the depth and integrity of its work in the community. Considered on of the top three dance festivals in the nation, CDF provides participants and audiences with opportunities to experience, study and interact with astounding performers and teachers from throughout the world.