Kansas City Ballet

06/03/2026

Did you know the Kansas City Ballet School offers drop-in classes for teens and adults?🩰 We believe dance is for everyone, even if you have little or no dance experience!

🩰Ballet (Intro-Pointe)
💃Flamenco
✨Jazz Flow
🧘🏻‍♂️ Pilates

Our Open Division classes are flexible and designed for ages 12+ at all levels. 🔗Please register online to reserve your place in class: https://bit.ly/3A3EFhk

📸: Photography by Brett Pruitt & East Market Studios and Beeh Moynagh.

06/03/2026

So proud to have performed Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's "Tulips and lobster" on the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts stage in 2025. 👏🏻⭐️

"Dance is not only an art form but a bridge between people, as well as a bridge between the inner and outer worlds. I have witnessed how a gesture can resonate with audience members regardless of where they come from. A shared experience in a theater can dissolve the distance between us," 📝Ochoa writes.

🔗Read more from her article in Dance Magazine here:

I choreograph because it is the only language in which I feel completely uninhibited. I have been fortunate to learn to speak four languages over the course of my life, yet words remain fragile. They can be misinterpreted or fail to capture the depth of what we truly mean. Movement, however, transce...

05/29/2026

The secret life of a pointe shoe. 🩰💌 Numbered. Sliced. Trimmed. Every dancer has a ritual — and every ritual makes the magic possible.

But here's the math behind the magic: 1,200+ pairs per season. $130 each. Sometimes just one performance per pair. 😳

🎁Help us keep our dancers on pointe — make your gift today: https://give.kcballet.org/pointe

📸: Kansas City Ballet Dancers. Video by Kelly Leahy.

05/25/2026

Kansas City Ballet offices will be closed today in observance of Memorial Day🇺🇸

📆 We will reopen on Tuesday, May 26.

📸: Kansas City Ballet Dancers Taryn Pachciarz, Josh Kiesel, Naomi Tanioka, Paul Zusi and Kaleena Burks with Company Dancers in George Balanchine's Stars and Stripes © The George Balanchine Trust. Photography by Brett Pruitt & East Market Studios.

05/22/2026

📣 We're hiring!

Kansas City Ballet is looking for an Assistant Stage Manager to join our Production team. 🎭🩰

If you love the energy of live performance, thrive behind the scenes, and want to be part of a 30+ member professional ballet company at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts — we'd love to meet you.
✨ Full-time season position (up to 42 weeks)
✨ Mid-August start date
✨ Compensation commensurate with experience

📩 Send your cover letter and resume to Amy Taylor at [email protected]
Position open until filled. 🔗Apply here: https://bit.ly/44xrCkp

05/19/2026

💚💜 Treasured classics. Bold premieres. One season pass.💚💜

Whether it's the wonder of The Nutcracker, the heartbreak of Romeo & Juliet, or the brand-new world premieres in PULSE and New Moves — Kansas City Ballet's 2026-2027 Season has something to move every kind of audience.

🎟️ Subscribers enjoy priority seating, the best prices, and the privilege of saying "I was there." ✨: https://bit.ly/4ipHSfl

📸 Kansas City Ballet Dancers Mei McArtor, Gillian Yoder, Paul Zusi, Andrew Vecseri, Elliott Rogers, Sidney Haefs, Marisa DeEtte Whiteman, Cameron Thomas, Naomi Tanioka, Gavin Abercrombie, Olivia Jacobus and Aidan Duffy. All photography by Kenny Johnson.
🎨 Design by Savanna Daniels.

05/19/2026

Thank you The Kansas City Star for featuring Kansas City Ballet Dancer Naomi Tanioka in your latest article highlighting Japanese artists across the metro!⛲️🇯🇵

"Outside the studio, her connection to Kansas City’s Japanese community has developed gradually. Through performances and informal outreach, she has met residents who see in her a reflection of their own cultural background," 📝 J.M. Banks writes.

"'It feels good to be representing,' she said. That representation carries significance, particularly for younger audiences who may not often see themselves reflected on stage. Abercrombie approaches it with responsibility, while keeping her focus on the work itself."

🔗: Read more here: https://bit.ly/4nzDpKd

They’re blending different art forms, culture practices and more to create in KC.

05/19/2026

Ugh still reminiscing over those Happy Feet!✨👞👠

What a fantastic run of Septime Webre's The Great Gatsby. Thank you Kansas City for showing up and showing out for us🥂Here's to next season!

🎥: Kansas City Ballet Dancers. Video by Beeh Moynagh.

05/19/2026

Congratulations to the VanBrock winners from the final weekend of Gatsby performances!👏🏻✨

05/18/2026

Thank you S. Fairbanks for your review of our performance of Septime Webre's The Great Gatsby!🗞️

"I could have sworn that with the something-for-everybody ballet The Great Gatsby...The ballet equivalent of a symphony pops concert. But hey – it was alright. The bee’s knee’s, in fact.

I think this is probably a trend we’ll be seeing more of in the coming seasons. In fact, the KC Ballet has another Septime Webre concoction to serve up to the public in the upcoming 2026-2027 season – The Wizard of Oz – and I expect it will knock our socks off as did Alice and Gatsby. Calendars up!"

🔗Read more here: https://bit.ly/4uQFFin

Review of the Kansas City Ballet's marvelous production of Septime Webre's The Great Gatsby, starring Andrew Vecseri and Kaleena Burks