Mark Jaffe
Mark Jaffe has been a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Bloomberg News and The Denver Post. He was also previously a Paris correspondent for Businessweek.
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It’s almost time for “The Nutcracker.” Here’s where to get your ballet on along the Front Range in 2017.
From mid-November through December, six Denver-area productions of "The Nutcracker" will be putting more than 400 children on the boards.

Jaffe: Boulder wanted its own electric utility. Does it still?
Boulder’s struggle to create its own electric utility will appear on the ballot for the third time in six years. Despite past support, this may be a ballot measure too...

This 83 year old danced in the choruses of the biggest Broadway musicals. And he’s still tapping and teaching
GeBauer is one of six people being honored Sunday as "Legends of Dance in Colorado" by the University of Denver Carson Brierly Giffin Dance Library.

He danced in Broadway’s biggest musicals. At 83, he’s still tapping and teaching in Colorado.
GeBauer's final show on Broadway was "Sugar" in 1973, a musical based on the movie "Some Like it Hot," in which he got to dance with Steve Condos, one of...

A sci-fi ballet? With “Celestial Navigation,” Wonderbound marries the two
"Celestial Navigation" is the story of a young woman using her hot-air balloon to travel the universe to rescue her husband, a theoretical physicist, who has been kidnapped by space...

After a ruptured Achilles, a lead in “Dracula” resurrects his ballet career from the dead
When Yosvani Ramos steps onto the stage on the opening night of the Colorado Balletap production of “Dracula,” he won’t be rising from the dead. But in coming back from...

After a ruptured Achilles, a lead in “Dracula” resurrects his ballet career from the dead
"At the beginning, I couldn't even go up and down stairs, and you wonder, 'How am I ever going to dance?' "

Next month, Colorado hosts the future of the oldest dance company in America
"We have a body of classics," said artistic director Janet Eilber. "But going into the 21st century, we needed to figure out the future."

Jaffe: Total eclipse of the sun will also blot out solar panels
The eclipse will cast a 70-mile-wide shadow across the country knocking out photovoltaic solar arrays, briefly turning off as much as 9,000 megawatts of generation.

A new twist: 2017 Vail Dance Festival mixes hip-hop, classical ballet in “melting pot” of movement
The two-week festival, which begins July 29, has spilled out from the stage into dancing in the street, pop-up performances, free dance bills in the park, workshops for children.