New York City Ballet principal Lauren Lovette will be this year’s artist-in-residence at the Vail Dance Festival, heading a female-centric lineup of choreographers and a boldface list of star dancers, the festival announced Thursday. Lovette will dance, choreograph and teach at the festival, which runs July 26 to Aug. 10.

Damian Woetzel, who has directed the festival since 2007, said he believed in nurturing talent over multiple seasons. “Having Lauren Lovette as our artist in residence, will build on her years at the festival dancing new roles, breaking new choreographic ground and experiencing new challenges,” he said in an email.

Referring to “the historic inequality of opportunity for female choreographers,” Woetzel, who is also president of the Juilliard School, said he had been “working at this issue for many years in Vail, and in my other work as well.”

Woetzel also continues to commission work. This year’s new pieces include dances by contemporary choreographer Hope Boykin to a score by Caroline Shaw, the festival’s Leonard Bernstein composer-in-residence, and will feature Lovette; a piece by Alonzo King set to a score by jazz musician Jason Moran; a work by Pam Tanowitz, also set to music by Shaw; and works from jookin’ artist Lil Buck, tap choreographer Michelle Dorrance, City Ballet principal Tiler Peck, and Lovette.

Tanowitz’s work gets another outing with the Martha Graham Dance Company, which will perform a piece created for it in the spring. Other troupes appearing at the festival include Ballet Hispanico, American Ballet Theater, Alonzo King LINES Ballet and Ballet X, which will perform Annabel Lopez-Ochoa’s full-length “The Little Prince.”

The Malpaso Dance Company, from Cuba, will make its Vail debut, with new works from Ronald K. Brown and Sonya Tayeh. And Alexei Ratmansky will rework a solo, “Fandango,” for City Ballet dancer Roman Mejia, which was originally created at the Vail festival for Wendy Whelan.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.