Cleo Parker Robinson Dance’s winter season is looking up in more ways than one.

In addition to previewing a $25 million addition to its headquarters in mid-January, the nonprofit company is celebrating its 55th anniversary and, as of this week, debuting its first-ever costume exhibit at Denver International Airport.

The Denver company has traveled globally and hosted thousands at its classes and shows at its converted church in the Five Points neighborhood. But the company, which focuses on Black American dance and African diaspora, has never mounted a costume retrospective — and certainly not one at a transit hub used by tens of millions of people each year.

“A lot of people see the dancers and choreography, but they don’t see the magic around it, which is everything from music to ligh

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