Dance fest struggles to meet expenses

BOULDER — Low ticket sales and a lack of contributions have resulted in layoffs for the Colorado Dance Festival.

Michelle Hefner-Hayes, the festival’s artistic director, is all that’s left of the festival’s three-person full-time staff. She was hoping to bring in $25,000 in corporate contributions for the arts non-profit but only got $11,000.

But it’s not for lack of effort, says Jan Bauman, president of Kingsbury Communication Design and one of the board members for the Colorado Dance Festival (CDF).

Contributions have come from Storage Technology Corp.,…