Community Engagement & Education
R.O.A.D. Scholarship Program
R.O.A.D. SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
In September 2017, Kansas City Ballet initiated a unique partnership with Kansas City Public Schools in Missouri and with Turner Unified Schools in Kansas to bring a free 12-week dance residency program, Reach Out and Dance (known as R.O.A.D.), to all third-grade students in 16 elementary schools. Each spring, up to 112 students from 16 R.O.A.D. Residency schools are invited to study dance on scholarships during the school day at the Todd Bolender Center for Dance & Creativity, home of Kansas City Ballet.
R.O.A.D. Scholars receive free dancewear and ballet slippers, two tuition-free classes per week for 12 consecutive weeks each spring and for eight weeks each summer, and complimentary tickets for themselves and a family member to attend a Kansas City Ballet performance.
Subsequently, each fall, 30 R.O.A.D. Scholars are invited to train in the Kansas City Ballet School for the next two years. As part of The Academy, R.O.A.D. Scholars are eligible to audition for Kansas City Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker.
Interested in learning more about our R.O.A.D Scholars program?
Contact April Berry.
“This Program has allowed my daughter’s dream to come true. She always wanted to dance and now gets a chance to do it!”
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R.O.A.D Sponsors
We wish to sincerely thank the following for their support of Kansas City Ballet’s Reach Out and Dance (R.O.A.D.) Program.
Kansas City Public School District, Missouri
Turner Unified School 202, Kansas
Hearst Foundation
R.O.A.D. Scholarship Program Uniform ProviderBARRE KC, Kansas City Ballet’s young professional’s group, for their annual fundraiser that benefits the R.O.A.D. Scholarship Program. The following are sponsors of that event: Boulevard Brewery Co., US Bank, and The Michael and Marlys Haverty Family Foundation.
Andrews Family Foundation
Anonymous
Belger Cartage Service, Inc.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City
BlueScope Steel
BNSF Railway Foundation
Curry Family Foundation
SS&C Technologies, Inc.
Hall Family Foundation
Henderson Engineers, Inc.
JE Dunn Construction Company
Kendra Scott
Louis & Elizabeth Nave Flarsheim Charitable Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee
Louis and Frances Swinken Supporting Foundation
Oppenstein Brothers Foundation
R and C Charitable Foundation
R.A. Long Foundation
Sprint Foundation
Unified Government-Hollywood Casino of Wyandotte County
US Bank Foundation
Wells Fargo Foundation
William Randolph Hearst Foundation