Five weekends?!
Golly -- who else uses that theater? Up here in Seattle, the ballet used to share with the opera and the symphony, and everyone clawed for more time (in a well-bred manner, of course). Now that the symphony has its own hall, the ballet and the opera still have to contend with other users. I can't imagine a situation where they would have five (I'm assuming consecutive) weekends for anything other than Nutcracker.
I imagine that the Choreographer Showcase (above) shares time with some other event, considering the math, but still...
Golly.
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The Colorado Ballet shares a venue with Opera Colorado. It looks like Opera Colorado got the better dates this year. The Choreographer Showcase does share time with some other event: Cinderella. It will be interesting to see how they split up the principal dancers between the 2 programs.
It also means that there is no April-May ballet, which is really unfortunate. On warm Spring evenings, the audience-watching can be almost as much fun as the performance.