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Cleo Parker Robinson — Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble
Tourism Star Award Recipient — 2003
As a young girl in Denver, Cleo suffered from medical difficulties and was told by doctors that she would remain bedridden her entire life. Cleo refused to believe that. To overcome the pain of her body, she threw herself into dance and by the age of 15 she was teaching dance at the University of Colorado.
Today, she is the artistic director and choreographer of one of America’s most respected and well-known dance groups – the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble – a group she created in 1970. The mission of this ensemble is to foster appreciation and develop new audiences for dance. In the process of doing that, Cleo has also developed Denver’s reputation in the arts on both a national and international scale.
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