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Review: KANSAS CITY BALLET: THE NUTCRACKER at Kennedy Center
by Roger Catlin - Nov 26, 2022

A PIANO CHOREOGRAPHY With Stavroula Thoma Comes to Markideio Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 15, 2022

The classical music concert series 'Technopolis 20 Classics' continue the new season, with a piano solo concert at Markideio Theatre, on Friday, 21st of October 2022, at 8pm.

BWW Review: PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET'S “SWAN LAKE” RETURNS TO THE STAGE at McCaw Hall
by Sondra Forsyth - May 13, 2022

Kent Stowell’s “Swan Lake” was back on stage from April 15th to 24th 2022 as part of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s post-pandemic return to live performances at Macaw Hall in Seattle.

Kansas City Ballet Announces Spring 2021 DANCE SPEAKS: NEW VOICES, NEW MOVES
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 23, 2021

Kansas City Ballet has announced Spring 2021 Dance Speaks: New Voices, New Moves featuring choreographers and cinematographers in a Facebook panel discussion, May 5 at 6:00 p.m..

Kansas City Ballet Announces Live Performances at Starlight Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 5, 2021

Kansas City Ballet will welcome audiences to Starlight Theatre for a 70-minute performance uniquely designed to tantalize your sense of adventure. All ballets on the Kansas City Ballet at Starlight program are brand new works by extraordinarily gifted choreographers.

KC Ballet Announces New Moves: The Broadcast Series
by Stephi Wild - Feb 15, 2021

Kansas City Ballet's Artistic Director Devon Carney today announced the launch of a new seven-week online series of free world premiere ballet episodes, New Moves: The Broadcast Series.

Kansas City Ballet Dancers Launch the BALLET STREET PROJECT
by Stephi Wild - Oct 3, 2020

Ballet dancers in Kansas City have launched the Ballet Street Project, taking performances outside and into the streets.

Kansas City Ballet to Present NEW MOVES
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 9, 2020

Artistic Director Devon Carney today announced the choreographers chosen for New Moves, a unique performance event designed to search out, develop and showcase emerging choreographers, both from the national dance scene as well as locally within Kansas City Ballet. New provides time and space for choreographers to create world premiere works with accomplished professional dancers. New Moves features the works of choreographers Melissa Gelfin, Rasta Thomas, Melody Mennite, KCB Company Ballet Master Parrish Maynard and Dancers Christopher Costantini, Emily Mistretta, Courtney Nitting and James Kirby Rogers.

BWW Review: SWAN LAKE at KC Ballet
by Kelly Luck - Feb 15, 2020

Carney returns SWAN LAKE with a few new touches of his own.

BWW Review: NEW MOVES 2019 at Kansas City Ballet
by Kelly Luck - Mar 30, 2019

The 2019 New Moves show of the Kansas City Ballet once again brings us an impressive display of works by new and emerging choreographers.

KC Ballet Presents NEW MOVES
by Stephi Wild - Mar 6, 2019

Artistic Director Devon Carney today announced the choreographers chosen for New Moves, a unique performance event designed to search out, develop and showcase emerging choreographers, both from the national dance scene as well as locally within Kansas City Ballet. New Moves is presented to provide time and space for choreographers to create world premiere works with accomplished professional dancers. New Moves features the works of choreographers Gary Abbott, associate professor of modern dance at the UMKC Conservatory of Dance and Music; Haley Kostas, Kansas City local dancer, choreographer and dance educator; Price Suddarth, Pacific Northwest Ballet soloist; KCB Company Dancers James Kirby Rogers, Emily Mistretta, and Courtney Nitting; and a work for Kansas City Ballet's Second Company created by Ryan Jolicoeur-Nye.

Photo Flash: THE NUTCRACKER Dances Into Kauffman Center
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 8, 2017

Following its Kennedy Center premiere in Washington, D.C., the acclaimed holiday production returns to its Kansas City home.

Photo Flash: NEW MOVES at Kansas City Ballet
by BWW News Desk - Feb 17, 2017

New Moves is a chance for audiences to see tomorrow's sought after choreographers today!

KC Ballet Welcomes New Company Members, Artistic Staff Addition
by BWW News Desk - Sep 7, 2016

Kansas City Ballet Artistic Director Devon Carney today announced the appointment of six new members, Kelsey Hellebuyck, Emily Mistretta, Gustavo Ribeiro, Amaya Rodriguez, James Rogers, Kevin Wilson, and three new apprentices, Ivan Braatz, Sarah Joan Smith, and Katherine Sawicki to the Kansas City Ballet Company.