On March 6, 2026, Kansas City Ballet Artistic Director Devon Carney announced the company’s 2026-2027 season, which opens with a trip down the Yellow Brick Road in Septime Webre’s The Wizard of Oz, continues with Devon Carney’s masterpiece of love, tragedy, and dance, Romeo…
Miyesha McGriff on 25 Years of R.O.A.D. and What Comes Next
Miyesha McGriff, a Kansas City native, became Kansas City Ballet’s R.O.A.D. Program Administrator in 2024. She trained at Kansas City Ballet School, performed as Clara in Todd Bolender’s Nutcracker, and spent summers at The Ailey School in New York before earning a BFA in…
Picture a classically trained ballerina – someone who has performed on stages from St. Petersburg, Russia, to Lincoln Center in New York – standing in a rehearsal studio, consciously trying to forget everything she knows about how to move. No elegant port de bras. No …
