A New Permanent Home
In summer 2011, Kansas City Ballet will successfully complete renovations on the Todd Bolender Center for Dance & Creativity, formerly the Union Station Power House. Our new home offers increased space, an excellent location and more amenities for our dancers, students and the public. With seven studios, including a 180-seat Studio Theater for informal student performances to new choreographic showings, the Ballet will have more space to rehearse, create, teach and learn. And because the theater’s design allows for a wide range of performances, the Studio Theater will also be a performance venue available for other performing arts organizations throughout the Kansas City community.

The Bolender Center also houses Kansas City Ballet School — offering a multitude of dance classes for children and adults, including ballet, yoga, Pilates, jazz, and salsa. Through our Community School, adults can take advantage of some of the
best movement and conditioning classes in the city. Children will have access to an Academy that trains them for a dance career, to the Community School that provides the best dance education available for those students not on a professional track— all taught by professionally trained faculty.

Learn more about our new home.

A Magnificent New Stage
In fall 2011, Kansas City Ballet makes its debut as the resident ballet company of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. The Muriel Kauffman Theater is destined to be known as one of the great stages for dance in the world. With only 1,800 seats – all designed for patron comfort - the distance from stage to the last row in the balcony is less than 120 feet. The
remarkable acoustics and the state of the art production and lighting equipment will insure a perfect experience.

And the Kauffman Center experience starts well before the curtain goes up. Well-lit and convenient parking, a beautiful Grand Lobby, patron reception areas, multiple elevators to all levels, concierge customer service stations — all designed to make live performance what it should be….convenient, comfortable, exciting, adventurous, breathtaking, heart stopping, unique, and life altering.

Kansas City Ballet season ticket patrons and contributors will receive top priority seating in this new world-class theater. Subscribe today to be sure to secure your place!