| Kansas City Ballet | |
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| General information | |
| Name | Kansas City Ballet |
| Year founded | 1957 |
| Founder | Tatiana Dokoudovska[1] |
| Principal venue | Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts Kansas City, Missouri |
| Website | kcballet |
| Senior staff | |
| Executive Director | David Gray |
| Artistic staff | |
| Artistic Director | Devon Carney |
| Other | |
| Official school | Kansas City Ballet School |
| Formation | Ensemble/unranked |
The Kansas City Ballet (KCB) is a professional ballet company based in Kansas City, Missouri. The company was founded in 1957 by Russian expatriate Tatiana Dokoudovska. The KCB presents five major performances each season to include an annual production of The Nutcracker. The KCB, its school, and its staff are all housed in, operate from, and rehearse at the Todd Bolender Center for Dance and Creativity, a renovated, seven-studio, office, and rehearsal facility in Kansas City, Missouri, that opened in August 2011. The company performs at and is the resident ballet company at the nearby Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, a performance venue in downtown Kansas City that opened in September 2011.
- ^ "Tatiana Dokoudovska". kcballet.org. Retrieved March 7, 2019.