Kansas City Ballet: New Moves

Kansas City Ballet: New Moves at Frost Studio Theater At The Bolender Center

Watch seven choreographers claim the same stage and reshape what ballet can say. New Moves brings emerging voices to the Frost Studio Theater at the Bolender Center, where Kansas City Ballet trades the grand proscenium for a 180-seat studio setting for a program centered on new choreography.

The discovery is the attraction. Instead of returning to a story you know by heart, you can meet several choreographic voices through the company’s dancers. Devon Carney, Angelin Carrant, Caroline Dahm, Olivia Emert, Amira Hogan, Elliott Rogers and Morgan Sicklick each contribute original work, and that collision of sensibilities is the draw. For audiences curious about contemporary ballet, the pleasure is finding which artist’s approach catches your interest, and enjoying the contrast within one program. You won't get a single aesthetic; you'll get seven distinct arguments about what contemporary ballet holds.

New choreography carries a different charge than repertory. These works haven't been polished by a hundred performances or softened by consensus. They arrive with sharp edges, born from individual obsessions and shaped by the dancers who premiere them. Kansas City Ballet's program gathers all that restless creative energy in one evening, offering a snapshot of where the art form is headed when it's still being invented.

Secure tickets for New Moves and see what happens when studio scale meets ambitious new voices.