February 18 – 27, 20212
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
Choreography by Michael Pink
Music by Philip Feeney
Live music performed by Kansas City Symphony and Chorus

Back by popular demand, the internationally renowned Dracula, based on Bram Stoker’s classic gothic horror story tantalizes as it terrifies. This lush theatrical work has it all…sensuous costumes, thrilling sets and special effects, and a gripping original score that will take your breath away.

Parental discretion is advised.

Single tickets will go on sale Aug. 30. https://kcballet.org/events/dracula/
To purchase a subscription, visit http://www.kcballet.org/performances-tickets/subscribe/

December 3 – 24, 2021
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
Choreography: Devon Carney
Music: Peter I. Tchaikovsky
Live music performed by Kansas City Symphony

Kansas City Ballet’s annual tradition, The Nutcracker continues to awe audiences year after year and is hailed as “positively oozing charm” by The Washington Post. The classic, Victorian-era story by E.T.A. Hoffman featuring Clara, the Nutcracker Prince, Dr. Drosselmeier and the Sugar Plum Fairy is a magical theatrical experience wrapped with exquisite costumes, grand sets, and captivating choreography. Let your wonder ignite and feel the glimmer once more as your childhood dreams return and inspire you to IMAGINE AGAIN.

Tickets currently available to subscribers only. Single tickets will go on sale Aug. 30. https://kcballet.org/events/the-nutcracker/

To purchase a subscription, visit http://www.kcballet.org/performances-tickets/subscribe/

Our sensory-friendly performance of The Nutcracker is Dec. 15, 2021 at 6 p.m. Call the Kansas City Ballet Box Office at 816.931.8993 to reserve tickets, limited seating available. 

Lila York debuted Celts at Boston Ballet – a year before Michael Flatley’s Riverdance became a sensation – and is a stunning fusion of Irish folk dance and ballet. Set to the music of The Chieftains and more, this celebration of Irish culture has brought audiences to their feet with its choreographically intense jig and captivating energy. Celts is the featured work in this “mixed rep” production. It opens with two short ballets, then followed by the, featured “headline” act.

Edwaard Liang’s Wunderland opens the show and is a gorgeous ballet washed in red and inspired by a giant snow globe.

George Balanchine’s Serenade is set in moonlight and is known as Balanchine’s most romantic ballet, an ode to the classic ballets Swan Lake and Giselle.

FEATURING

Celts
Choreography: Lila York
Music: The Chieftains, William J. Ruyle, Bill Whelen, Mason Daring

Serenade
Choreography: George Balanchine
Music: Peter I. Tchaikovsky
Performed by Kansas City Symphony

Wunderland
Choreography: Edwaard Liang
Music: Philip Glass

Single tickets will go on sale Aug. 30. https://kcballet.org/events/celts/
To purchase a subscription, visit http://www.kcballet.org/performances-tickets/subscribe/

Meighan Morrison was born in Chicago in 1966 and studied fine art at Boston University before transferring to Parsons School of Design in NYC, now The New School. She currently lives and maintains a studio in Bridgeport, CT.

She spent the last decade devolving from representational art into a simple abstract language. She works on the floor (which adds a physicality to her process) on oversized rolls of linen or paper. While dominant forms and basic composition are generally pre- determined she is relaxed with the brush, inviting the accident and then rerouting course to accommodate it.

Her interest in opposites, how they meet and determine each other – black/white, large/small, past/future – remains a constant in her work. The large scale of her stretched paintings amplify the relief found in simplification. The basic nature of the materials and a limited palette speak to the essential.

She hopes that her work might serve as a temporary panacea for the exponential convolution that is our modern lives and perhaps also as a small rebellion against it.

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Blue Gallery is thrilled to present Meighan Morrison’s solo exhibition, REMEMBER THE FUTURE?. Please stop by the gallery to see this stunning exhibition in person.

If you wish to set up an appointment to view the exhibition, either in the gallery or via FaceTime, please give us a call at #816.527.0823, or email kellyk@bluegalleryonline.com

Hope to see you soon!

Kelly + David

At the Threshold
KU Graduate Arts Association
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Group Exhibition
June 3 — August 14, 2021

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Featured Artists

Dora Agbas
Debbie Barrett-Jones
Mark ‘Fitz’ Fitzsimmons
Sadie Goll
Tiana Nanayo Kuuleialoha Honda
Allison Ice
Hannah Lindo
Tristan Lindo
Dillen Peace
Sarah Pickett
Sophia Reed
Kirsten Taylor
Jenny Welden

“Thresholds are dangerous places, neither here nor there, and walking across one is like stepping off the edge of a cliff in the naïve faith that you’ll sprout wings halfway down. You can’t hesitate or doubt. You can’t fear the in-between.”― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January