Kansas City Ballet: New Moves

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

Seven choreographers. Seven fresh takes on movement. New Moves brings emerging voices to Kansas City Ballet, each contributing original work for this contemporary program. When a company invites choreographers to create from scratch, you're watching invention unfold rather than polished standards—the kind of contemporary ballet that asks what movement can do when it hasn't been done before.

Devon Carney, Angelin Carrant, Caroline Dahm, Olivia Emert, Amira Hogan, Elliott Rogers and Morgan Sicklick each bring distinct sensibilities to the program. That range matters. You can arrive without a favorite fairy-tale character or a familiar score leading the way. The curiosity is which choreographic voice will catch your attention, and what the company’s dancers will make of a program devoted to discovery. For ballet followers, that is a specific reason to choose this engagement alongside the larger story productions. The variety keeps the evening unpredictable, and the dancers shift vocabularies with each new work, revealing different facets of their artistry across the night.

The Frost Studio Theater at the Bolender Center seats 180, a smaller canvas than the grand proscenium stages Kansas City Ballet typically occupies. That studio-theater setting gives this engagement a distinct identity within the company’s season. Choose it for new work and several creative voices sharing one program, rather than a single familiar narrative.

Grab tickets for New Moves and watch choreography take shape in real time.