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Kansas City Ballet's first love affair with Don Quixote is a striking and well-danced success.

Webre’s screwball ALICE (in Wonderland) for the Kansas City Ballet is colorful and packed with excellent performances.

Balanchine's Jewels for the Kansas City Ballet is a very pleasing way to end the season.

New Moves for Kansas City Ballet is a great way to spot new choreographic talent.

Devon Carney's Peter Pan is alluring and terrifically comic: tantrums, sulking, pranks and fun, all thrown into the mix.

Kansas City Ballet's The Nutcracker charms young and young at heart. 

Enthralling, intense and terrifying, yet compellingly watchable. It may send chills down the spine but it is quite brilliantly portrayed. 

Alexander Ekman's Cacti is the zany highlight of the evening! 

Devon Carney's Cinderella is fast-moving and busy, with the stepsisters cavorting across the stage as the epitome of pantomime dames

An engaging and emotionally authentic rendition of the 19th-century classic features Kaleena Burks in the title role.

Septime Webre's irrepressible reinvention of Dorothy, Kansas and Oz is back at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

Liang Fu impresses as a regal and macabre, majestic and creepy Dracula in Michael Pink's ballet.

Devon Carney’s wittily choreographed Nutcracker returns to charm the Kauffman stage. 

Serenades, Siberia and a little Celtic nostalgia as Kansas City Ballet returns to the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

Kaleena Burks impresses in her role as Odette/Odile in Kansas City Ballet's Swan Lake. 

Adam Hougland's premiere of Carmina Burana in Kansas City. 

Company and World Premieres to round out KC'S ballet season

The seven world premieres all bore a certain unity, lacking and joy or wit, although Gary Abbott's Parallel Lives stands out.  

Kansas City Ballet premieres Val Caniparoli and Robert de la Rose's Impressionistic ballet

Devon Carney's fantasy-forward take on the holiday classic. 

A triumphant world première of Septime Webre's Wizard of Oz in Kansas City.