Monarch Mountain is hosting its inaugural ski ballet competition this spring. While the discipline largely lost popularity after its appearance in the 1992 Winter Olympic games due to the rise of ...

Ski ballet isn’t dead, apparently. At Monarch Mountain, Colorado, costumed competitors will twist, turn, and pirouette down the Freeway trail on April 5, 2025. The event, fittingly billed as the Ski ...

The sun was breaking through the clouds one day last April as Lara Rosenbaum stood atop a slope at Colorado’s Monarch Mountain. She took in the scene around her: Costumed skiers twirling around, their ...

Ballet is Back! Kathryn Wadsworth is dressed as a butterfly. More precisely, the Event Manager at Monarch Mountain Ski resort is in a monarch butterfly costume, made of lift tower pads she says were ...

A Colorado ski area is bringing back ski ballet. Monarch Mountain is hosting its inaugural ski ballet competition this spring. While the discipline largely lost popularity after its appearance in the ...