Frequent Flyers is Colorado's pre-eminent low-flying trapeze and aerial dance-theatre company. We venture indoors and out, blending aerial work seamlessly with dance. Vampires, a period Swing piece, computers, and even holiday travel serve to supplement all manner of flying apparatus, ensuring Frequent Flyers Productions' a vibrant place in your memory. We offer classes for every age and ability level, including a program for at risk youth. Our classes are designed to help you get the most out of your experience. For more information about our classes, Click here to visit our website.
Frequent Flyers produces the only international Aerial Dance Festival in the world each August. The Festival blends classes, workshops, community outreach activities and performances for two weeks each summer. Thanks for looking us up. We hope to see you at one of our classes, shows, and the Festival!
2007 SEASON
Our spring show, Wingding! will be performed at the Dairy Center for the Arts on April 20-22 and 27-29. The Aerial dance Festival will run from August 5-17th with performances on August 10-12. Theatres of the Vampires is back by popular demand! Performances will be on October 31st and November 1st at Macky Auditorium on the CU- Boulder Campus.
OUR HISTORY
Frequent Flyers Productions, Inc. (FFP) was founded in 1988 and incorporated as a non-profit in 1990 by artistic director Nancy Smith. Ms. Smith and her work with FFP have received top honors in Colorado: The Colorado Dance Alliance 2005 Cutting Edge Award; the 1997 Glenwood Springs Dance Festival's Choreographer's Project Award, the 1996 AHAB/Neodata Choreographer's Fellowship, the 1993 Pacesetter's Award for Arts & Entertainment and the 1990 Arts Innovation Award for Excellence in Dance, as well as numerous grants from corporations, foundations, and government agencies. FFP is one of only a dozen or so aerial dance companies in the US.
In June 2005, FFP performed for Cirque du Soleil hanging 60 feet on the side of their headquarters. The company received the readers' choice for "Best Dance Performance" from the Daily Camera in 1992 and 1997 for Theatre of the Vampires and participated in the first-ever aerial dance festival in Boston, April, 1992.
FFP is known for pushing boundaries through collaboration and site-specific works. Performances have been held in a park, a drive-in theatre, a church, galleries, and traditional theatre spaces. Collaborations have involved heavy equipment operators, snakes, composers, computer graphics, children, and visual artists, as well as a variety of environments such as a graveyard, a meat locker, a junk yard, a drive-in theatre, and abandoned greenhouses. FFP also explores the relationship of art and technology through computer animation, computer-generated choreography, video, and live performance.
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