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Meet Supporters Craig Coen and Jeffrey Bellamy

What begins as a single night out can sometimes change everything. For Craig Coen, it was a fall 2024 performance of Alice in Wonderland that first sparked his curiosity about Kansas City Ballet. He soon convinced his spouse Jeffrey Bellamy to join him for Don Quixote — and tha…

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Live Jazz, Tap, and the Spoken Word: Inside Kansas City Ballet’s The Great Gatsby

When Artistic Director Devon Carney set out to bring The Great Gatsby to Kansas City Ballet, he had a clear vision: immerse audiences completely in the spirit of the Jazz Age — not just through dance, but through live music, song, and the spoken word. To make that happen, he tu…

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May is Leave a Legacy Month: What Will Yours Be?

Dance has a way of staying with us — in the music we can’t stop humming, the performances that moved us to tears, the young dancer we watched come into her own on stage. When you love something that deeply, you want it to last. May is Leave a Legacy Month, a time to consider

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