Kansas City Ballet Association

"kansas city ballet school dance academy 1,812 people served. Providing excellence in dance training since 1981, kansas city ballet school has two campuses, downtown and in johnson county, serving the needs of pre-professional and recreational dance students, both children and adults. The academy offers classes for children ages 2-19 varying from creative movement, ballet, pointe, modern, jazz, contemporary, variations, conditioning, flamenco & more. We offer an adaptive dance program for children with mixed cognitive abities as well as a daytime program for students who are looking to further their dance education even more. Students in the academy program have the opportunity to audition for company productions such as the nutcracker, and also participate in a spring school performance. Our pre-professional students also are eligible to participate in kansas city youth ballet (the performing ensemble of the school) and in competitions such as youth america grand prix and universal ballet competition. Each year kcbs offers a five-week summer intensive program, which attracts students from all over the country. Kansas city ballet's second company serves as an emerging professionals program for extraordinarily talented young dancers. Our studio program offers drop-in classes for teens and adults of any level in various styles of dance and fitness. There are classes specifically for our silver community as well as those recovering from a brain injury. We offer classes in ballet, tap, jazz, flamenco, progressing ballet technique (pbt), pilates, yoga, dancefix, bemoved, ballet bod, barre fitness, baby bundle and more."

"kansas city ballet partnership and reach out and dance (road) programs. Youth and adults were impacted through a variety of programs offered by kansas city ballet's partnership and road departments. Several pre-performance programs were offered through the belger footnotes programs in the theater. Kcb dancer chats, a free online education series featured kc ballet dance artists and various community members as guest moderators. Kcb dance speaks, offered again in person, served a variety of guests and audience members different panels with kc ballet guest choreographers, stagers, and kc ballet artistic staff. 4,611 grade school students attending 3 student matinee performances of 'the nutcracker'. In fy24 a total of 84 new reach out and dance (""r.o.a.d."") scholarship students were selected to come and study dance at kc ballet. 44 r.o.a.d. Scholar families attended two parent/guardian orientations. 225 people attended the r.o.a.d. Scholarship showcase performed by the r.o.a.d. Scholars for their families and teachers with a r.o.a.d. Scholar reception held with 47 r.o.a.d. Scholars in attendance. Kcb's 12 to 24 - week dance residency program in community schools taught by kansas city ballet teaching artist to live piano accompaniment served 733 third and fourth grade students from 14 elementary schools throughout missouri and kansas. Fall and spring r.o.a.d. Rallies were conducted in person with a total of 1,564 people in attendance.