Hailing from Staunton, Virginia, James Jordan began his formal dance training at the Richmond Ballet during his freshmen year at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Theatre Department. Three years later, he was recruited by Mr. Bolender at North Carolina School for the Arts for his first company of dancers in Kansas City. During and after those next seven years with Kansas City Ballet, Mr. Jordan also performed in Santa Fe and in the New York area. His career then led him to press relations for public television, prior to his return to Kansas City in 1991 as ballet master. In 2000, he received his B.F.A. in dance from the UMKC Conservatory of Dance. Mr. Jordan works with students in the Kansas City Ballet School and stages the ballets of Todd Bolender and Antony Tudor in Kansas City and across the nation.
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After a four year hiatus, Karen P. Brown returned to KCB in 2008. A native of Newark, Ohio, she danced with National Ballet of Washington D.C., Pennsylvania Ballet and as a principal dancer and later ballet mistress with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. Prior to joining KCB as ballet mistress and school director in 1998, she was ballet mistress of BalletMet in Columbus, Ohio. Since 2004, Ms. Brown served as interim school director for the Washington (D.C.) School of Ballet, participated on the jury for the Youth America Grand Prix ballet competition, and been a faculty member of Gulfshore Ballet in Fort Myers, Florida. Ms. Brown participates on guest faculties of many summer programs and continues to work with many
choreographers, stage ballets and teach master classes around the world.
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