DENVER… Why we can’t get enough!
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Editors’ Picks
DENVER ART MUSEUM
• Located in Denver’s Golden Triangle Creative District, this headlining museum holds about 70,000 diverse works of art across centuries and countries. It is one of the largest art museums between the West Coast and Chicago. denverartmuseum.org
MEOW WOLF
• Ignite your senses with this creative overload. The immersive museum began as a maximalist artist collective in Santa Fe and is now shaking up the art scene in Denver. Playful instillations tug at realities’ threads inviting visitors to play in the pretend. meowwolf.com
DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE
• Travel back in time and stand face to face with life-size dinosaurs. Fly into the future at the Space Odyssey exhibit. Take a tour of wildlife habitats from Alaska to Argentina, Africa to Australia and all over. dmns.org
CLEO PARKER ROBINSON DANCE
• For a half-century, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance has used the universal language of dance to explore the human condition, honor the African Diaspora, champion justice and unite all people to celebrate the complexity of life through movement. cleoparkerdance.org
SANTA FE STREET
• Studios, galleries, artist cooperatives, theaters, museums, murals, ethnic food spots, breweries, coffee shops, outdoor films and more constitute Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe. The best time to visit is during First Friday Art Walks. denversartdistrict.org
Wonderbound
It’s mesmerizing ballet. It’s brow-raising modern dance. It’s provocative storytelling. And it’s the brainchild of husband-and-wife duo Garrett Ammon and Dawn Fay, choreographer/artistic director and president, respectively. The nonprofit dance company isn’t exactly new, but these days, Wonderbound is digging deep into genre-overlap for an electrifying exploration of unexpected ideas. The goal, says the pair, is to create performances as enthralling for a classical ballet aficionado as they are for a guest who has never set foot inside a theater.
For example, Wonderbound’s upcoming April show, Oh Me, Oh My! is inspired by spy thrillers, à la the 007 film franchise. “I love taking genres that have not been explored in the ballet world and saying, ‘Well, why don’t we?’” Ammon says. “What are the things we can learn and absorb from these other forms?”
While the pandemic plays out, Wonderbound is performing solely at its studio theater with reduced capacity instead of traveling to stages around town. Audiences are loving
