Kansas City Ballet

Founded in 1957, the Kansas City Ballet is a 30-member professional ballet company under the direction of Artistic Director Devon Carney and Executive Director Jeffrey J. Bentley. This well recognized arts organization performs at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. Additionally, it is housed in the 7 studio, state of the art, rehearsal facility, known as the Todd Bolender Center for Dance and Creativity. The professional company as well as the Kansas City Ballet Second Company (Comprising KCB II and Trainees) and the Kansas City Ballet School all operate on a day-to-day basis within this rehearsal - performance complex.

2017 marks Kansas City Ballet's 60th Anniversary, the "Diamond Jubilee Season".

Kansas City Ballet has a four performance season per year as well as the annual production The Nutcracker. The company also reaches over 20,000 Kansas City Ballet students and adults each year through its student matinees, community education programs and fitness and dance classes. They reach annually approximately 600 school age students through their ROAD - Reach Out And Dance program. This 12 to 24-week in-school dance residency program is geared for elementary schools, and taught by professional teaching artists to encourage and engage a deeper understanding and connection to dance. The Kansas City Ballet School offers a full range of dance education to students of all ages with a comprehensive training program which enables students to learn the joy and finer details of the art form of dance. The Kansas City Ballet is directly linked with the dance training offered to pre-professional dance students through the Kansas City Ballet School.

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