Performer: Kansas City Ballet

Kansas City Ballet celebrate the USA’s 250th anniversary with three American ballets. Balanchine's Stars and Stripes, de Mille's Rodeo and a new work by Caili Quan, A Home Away.

Swan Lake opens the season for Kansas City Ballet in a splendid looking production and with very pleasing interpretations.

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

With the Kauffmann Center approaching its tenth anniversary, we look at how the building has breathed life into the arts scene in a city that was formerly considered flyover country.