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Bring your bae a bouquet of ballet💐🩰 Get 20% off your tickets to our three dance works program — Stars Stripes, showing March 20-29 at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts!
“At the heart of everything we do is a belief in the power of art to bring people together," says Devon Carney, Artistic Director of Kansas City Ballet about the program✨ "Each of these works offers a glimpse into what America means to these artists. I am so thrilled that our dancers can bring these iconic works to life."
The best Valentine`s Day gift you can give your loved one is an experience they`ll never forget💗What better way to celebrate than at the ballet and supporting local performing artists!
🎟️ Use the promo code STRIPES20 at checkout to receive your 20% discount. Tickets only available at KCBALLET.ORG.
📸: Ballet West artists Jenna Rae Herrera and David Huffmire in Stars and Stripes. Choreography by George Balanchine, © The George Balanchine Trust. Photo by Beau Pearson.
Musicians Jordan Voth and Jacob Thomas are featured in @classicalkc`s latest article🎶 We`re so proud of these two!
“One of the big challenges about accompaniment for dance,” 💬 says Devon Carney, Kansas City Ballet artistic director, “is that you have to understand dance as well as music and be sensitive to what the dancer is doing at that particular moment, and be aware of them. You can`t just put your nose into the score and play.”
🔗Read more from Libby Hanssen at the #linkinbio.
📸: Kansas City Ballet Dancer Joseph Boswell and Pianist Jacob Thomas. Photography by Beeh Moynagh.
This kingdom isn’t big enough for TWO fair ladies…. 🏰🪞 Watch Snow White and the Evil Queen in Kansas City Ballet’s production of Snow White!
🍎Kansas City Ballet Second Company presents Bruce Wells’ Snow White at the historic Folly Theater. This magical, narrated ballet is especially designed for families and kids. With a 55-minute run time and no intermission, it’s the perfect introduction to theater and dance.
Bruce Wells’ Snow White | Showing Feb. 27-March 1 at the Folly Theater
Sponsored by Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts and the Neighborhood Tourism Development Fund.
🎟️ only available at KCBALLET.ORG.
🎥: Kansas City Ballet Dancers Brooke Noska and Olivia Pearsall. Video by Nicole Dolan.
Double your impact! Many employers offer matching gift programs that can double or triple your gift to Kansas City Ballet.🎁
🔗Explore our matching gift search tool to see if your company participates at the #linkinbio.
📸: Kansas City Ballet Dancers Gavin Abercrombie and Kelsey Ivana Hellebuyck. Photography by Brett Pruitt & East Market Studios.
#doublethedonation
Tickets to Kansas City Ballet`s biggest party go live on Friday, February 6!!🥂Let`s party like it`s the 1920`s at @barre.kc`s Gatsby-inspired Soirée👠🎷
🗓️SAVE THE DATE | April 18, 2026
⏰ 6:30 PM
📍Union Station
✨Inspired by Kansas City Ballet’s production of Septime Webre`s The Great Gatsby (Showing May 8-17 at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts👀), Soirée 2026 brings the Roaring 20s to life with nonstop dancing!
❣️All proceeds support Kansas City Ballet’s Reach Out And Dance (R.O.A.D.) program, bringing free dance education to nearly 1,000 third and fourth graders across Kansas City each year.
🎟️ Tickets will go live on FRIDAY, February 6! For more details check out the #linkinbio.
📸: Photos by Kate Sweeten.
👀Today is your last chance to see works from...
Duncan Cooper - @duncancooper70
Maria A. Konrad - @makonrad
Durante Verzola - @verzolaballet
Joseph Boswell - @balletboswell
Amira Hogan - @amiracamille
Cameron Thomas - @yourboycammyt
New Moves 🌀NOW SHOWING at the Bolender Center!
📸: Kansas City Ballet Company Dancers Paul Zusi and Maura Moody; Alessia Braggiato; Gavin Abercrombie and Naomi Tanioka; Cameron Thomas and Amira Hogan. Photography by Brett Pruitt & East Market Studios.
New Moves continues today at the Bolender Center!🌀 We are so proud to present these brand new works in our home studio and we can’t wait to share them with all of you.
New Moves now showing thru Feb. 1✨
🎥: Kansas City Ballet Dancers in Durante Verzola’s “Meditations” Video by Nicole Dolan.
We have a double feature today! Come see Kansas City Ballet like you`ve never seen before 🩰
🌀NOW SHOWING thru Feb. 1 at the Bolender Center!
📸: Kansas City Ballet Company Dancers with Kelsey Ivana Hellebuyck and Keaton Linzau. Photography by Brett Pruitt & East Market Studios.
New Moves continues TONIGHT!👏
🌀NOW SHOWING thru Feb. 1 at the Bolender Center!
📸: Kansas City Ballet Dancers Cameron Thomas, Kelsey Ivana Hellebuyck and Keaton Linzau, Alladson Barreto with Company Dancers, Alessia Braggiato with Second Company Dancers. Photography by Brett Pruitt & East Market Studios.
Congratulations choreographers, artists and staff on a beautiful opening night of New Moves!💐
‼️Couldn`t make it tonight? We have very limited tickets left for this one weekend spectacular! Get yours ASAP only at KCBALLET.ORG.
📸: Kansas City Ballet Dancers in Amira Hogan`s "A Wish of Love Was What it Was". Photography by Brett Pruitt & East Market Studios.
🩰✨Kansas City Ballet is proud to announce the 2026 Kansas City Ballet Creative Aging Teaching Artist Cohort:
Brigitte Benyei
Kristi Capps
Kara Davis
Kramer Kreiling
Andrew Parker
Suzanne Ryanstrati
Kansas City Ballet was selected as a 2025-26 recipient of the Missouri Arts Council’s inaugural Arts & Health Pilot Program with a grant towards our creative aging dance classes throughout the community!
This includes training six Kansas City Ballet teaching artists in Dance for Parkinson’s and dementia through faculty from Dance for PD®, a registered program of Mark Morris Dance Group (NYC).
The cohort recently led a community class for individuals with Parkinson’s in partnership with John Knox Village’s Parkinson’s Connection.
📸: Photography by Beeh Moynagh.
New Moves opens TONIGHT!👏
🩰Support the future of dance | Showing Jan. 29-Feb. 1 at the Bolender Center!
🎟️ Tickets are only available at KCBALLET.ORG. Buy yours today!
📸: Kansas City Ballet Dancers Troy Monger-Levin and Sage Guillot in Maria A. Konrad`s "Sparks". Photography by Brett Pruitt & East Market Studios.
New Moves opens TONIGHT👀
Don’t miss Kansas City Ballet School alum Durante Verzola’s romantic, passionate, and electrifying new work in our home studio!
🌀New Moves OPENS TONIGHT and shows thru Feb. 1 at the Bolender Center
🎟️ Tickets are only available at KCBALLET.ORG. Buy yours today!
🎥: Kansas City Ballet Dancers Kaleena Burks, Taryn Pachciarz and Alladson Barreto with Choreographer Durante Verzola. Video by Nicole Dolan.
Our School
Under the direction of School Director Oliver Till, the School offers a complete, professional curriculum for our Academy students. With locations in downtown Kansas City and Johnson County, the School maintains a faculty of over 50 instructors. The School’s Open Division attracts teens and adults who wish to pursue recreational dance instruction in a supportive and encouraging setting.
A history of Excellence
A history of Excellence
Professional Ballet Company and School
Founded in 1957, Kansas City Ballet is a 30-member professional ballet company under the direction of Artistic Director Devon Carney and Executive Director David Gray.
Through its professional company, its second company (comprised of KCB II and Trainees), its ballet school, and its many community programs, Kansas City Ballet seeks to nurture and develop our artists, audiences, and students in the values inherent in the creativity, diversity, and joy of dance.
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