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May Repertory Offers
Ballet For Music Lovers
The Kansas City Ballet 2004-05
season concludes with the Spring Performance May 5 through 8 at the
Lyric Theatre. This performance will particularly appeal to contemporary
classical music lovers as it features music by composers Bela Fleck
and Edgar Meyer, Maria del Mar Bonet, Lowell Liebermann and Toru Takemitsu.
Read more.
KCB Dancers Participate in Celebrity
Fingerpainting to Benefit AIDS Walk
Kansas
City Ballet company dancers fingerpainted with their famous feet (and
hands) to raise money for the 2005 AIDS WALK on March 9.
See their piece
of work throughout the month of April at the Celebrity Finger Painting
Gallery at Bar Natasha, 1911 Main Street, in downtown Kansas City.
Read more.
Happy Hour's Spring Wine Festival
Join
Happy Hour's Spring Wine Festival on Saturday, April 30, 2005, between
4-8 p.m. to taste premier wines and mingle with members of Kansas
City Ballet. Visitors will also receive an engraved wine tasting glass
for perfect for taste testing, enjoy appetizers, door prizes, and
special "case" discounts.
Since 2003, Happy Hour has hosted wine tastings for special Kansas
City Ballet benefactor events.
Read more.
Train
With Guest Master Teacher Gretchen Ward Warren
Kansas City Ballet is pleased to host Gretchen Ward Warren as
a guest master instructor for the Crested Butte Summer Intensive.
Currently a Professor of Dance in the
College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of South Florida
in Tampa, Warren’s experience in dance is diverse and rich.
In addition to a successful 11-year career as a former soloist with
the Pennsylvania Ballet and Ballet Mistress of American Ballet Theatre
II in New York where she worked closely with Richard Englund and Mikhail
Baryshnikov, she is an established choreographer of 16 ballets.
Read more.
KCB School Performs With The Philharmonia
of Greater Kansas City
On March
6, 2005, Kansas City Ballet School had the unique opportunity to perform
with The Philharmonia of Greater Kansas City in their “Celebrate
America” and “Dance” children’s concert at
the Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel on the Park University campus in
Parkville, MO.
Read more.
Announcing the 2004-05 ROAD T-shirt
Design & Winners
This
past March, 100 hopeful young Reach Out And Dance students submitted
their own t-shirt designs for the 2004-05 official ROAD shirt. Kansas
City Ballet company dancers and staff voted for their favorite design
from 10 semifinalists. It was a very close contest, but the winning
design (pictured) was created by a team of two young ROAD students
from Broken Arrow Elementary in Shawnee, Ashley Sanders and Michelle
Stuessi.
Read more.
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Last Performance Event for BARRE Members
Looking for a great way to meet new people, support the arts and HAVE
FUN? Come party with The Barre- the young professionals group of Kansas
City Ballet at our last performance event of the season! Held before
the Spring performance, the BARREFLY Opening Night Reception is Thursday,
May 5, at 5:30 p.m. at 12 Baltimore in the Hotel Phillips.
Read more.
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Special Young Friends Offer - Lily Tomlin: Unplugged
Rep Set, the young professionals
group at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, is extending a special offer
to members of other arts-centered young friends groups. This season,
Kansas City Repertory Theatre is bringing Lily Tomlin: Unplugged to
the Folly Theater on April 18 for its annual gala benefit. Regular
tickets start at $150 per person. However, Rep Set invites Barre members
to attend this fun night out for only $75 per person*. Ticket price
includes a pre-performance reception with lots of food and beverages
at the Folly Theater.
Read more.
Kansas City Ballet Ball 2005
The past, present and future
of the Kansas City Ballet was celebrated on Saturday, March 5th, when
Kansas City Ballet Guild presented the annual Ballet Ball at the Hyatt
Regency Crown Center Hotel. This year’s gala raised approximately
$300,000 for Kansas City Ballet.
Read more.
Spring Performance
Click
here to order tickets to see Kansas City Ballet's Spring Performance,
May 5-8, at the Lyric Theatre. Or call the box office at 816-931-2232
x375 to reserve the best seats!
Hotel and Mother's Day packages
available from KCB's hotel sponsor Hotel Phillips. Special $48/adult
and $28/children to see Kansas City Ballet and brunch at Hotel Phillips
on Mother's Day. Or stay overnight at Hotel Phillips and see the ballet
for $115 (includes luxurious Hotel Phillips guest room and two orchestra
center seats at any Kansas City Ballet spring performance). Call 816-931-2232
x375 for details.
REMINDER
Season subscribers must renew their subscriptions by Friday, April
15, to secure their seats for the 2005-2006 season.
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