Kansas City Ballet
Three works open the Kansas City Ballet s season at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in October, including Celts. Dancers Taryn Mejia and Cameron Thomas are pictured here.
The Kansas City Ballet on Friday announced the company’s 2021-2022 season – including a return this fall to the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.
The Kansas City Ballet is planning to emerge from the pandemic with a line-up of popular performances selected partly out of gratitude.
Artistic director Devon Carney said the Kansas City community provided a lifeline to the company after COVID-19 restrictions forced it to cancel performances at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in 2020 and again this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Julie Denesha
Originally published on December 30, 2020 8:36 am
Artist Kwanza Humphrey s studio at the InterUrban ArtHouse in Overland Park is surrounded by the colorful, large-scale portraits he paints. He likes to swathe his subjects in African textiles.
“Black Americans have been uprooted from Africa,” Humphrey says. “I ll have models come in and sit for me and I ll take photos and I say wear whatever you want. It doesn t matter because I m probably going to change it and wrap you in these beautiful patterns from Africa. For me, it s a way of reconnecting with that culture that is lost and to see that richness.”