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Damian Woetzel, Artistic Director of Vail Dance Festival, is a longtime supporter of both BalletX and Lil Buck, and helped to facilitate the collaboration.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Charles \u201cLil Buck\u201d Riley is a Los Angeles-based dancer and model from Memphis, Tennessee. He specializes in jookin\u2019 and often ventures into another style of street dance called popping, as well as ballet. Lil Buck has performed with Madonna at Super Bowl XLVI and on her 2012 MDNA World Tour, and he was a cast member of Cirque du Soleil&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael Jackson: One<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. His iconic<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> iPhone 7<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lexus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> commercials have established widespread recognition of his unique dance style, and his collaborations with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Benjamin Millepied, and Damian Woetzel have generated crossover appeal in the ballet world. In collaboration with Miami popping star Jon Boogz, he recently created and is touring the country in his first evening-length show, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Love Heals All Wounds<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 a work addressing police brutality, mass incarceration, gender and racial equality through dance and poetry. 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