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Kansas City Ballet in Swan Lake: good girl vs bad girl

Kansas City Ballet in Devon Carney's Swan Lake
© Brett Pruitt & East Market Studios
Naomi Tanioka, Aiden Duffy and Maura Moody in Devon Carney's Swan Lake
© Brett Pruitt & East Market Studios
Kansas City Ballet in Devon Carney's Swan Lake
© Brett Pruitt & East Market Studios
Kaleena Burks as Odette and Andrew Vecseri as Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake
© Brett Pruitt & East Market Studios
Kansas City Ballet in Devon Carney's Swan Lake
© Brett Pruitt & East Market Studios
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“projecting from her first appearance both reticence and eagerness, fragility and strength”
Reviewed at Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts: Muriel Kauffman Theatre, Kansas City on 17 October 2025
Swan Lake (Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov, Devon Carney)
Kansas City Ballet
Peter Cazalet, Set Designer
Trad Burns, Lighting Designer
Kansas City Symphony
Kaleena Burks, Dancer
Andrew Vecseri, Dancer
Aiden Duffy, Dancer
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