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 ...

View post: Chelsea Handler To Host Women's Heli Ski Trip Kathryn Wadsworth is dressed as a butterfly. More precisely, the Event Manager at Monarch Mountain Ski resort is in a monarch butterfly costume ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — 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 ...

Monarch Mountain and KHEN Community Radio teamed up to revive the once Olympic-level sport Ski ballet, also known as "acroski" was a two-time Winter Olympics demonstration sport that flourished in the ...

The freestyle discipline of ski ballet originated in the 1960s as an expression of creativity on the slopes, trading the thrills and spills of raing for elegant spins and acrobatic flips. With its ...

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 ...

Along with moguls and aerials, ballet fell under the umbrella of freestyle. The inaugural FIS Freestyle World Cup took place in 1980. For a while, ski ballet thrived, spreading round the world, ...

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 stitched together ...