American dance is highlighted in the conclusion of Kansas City Ballet’s season on May 5-8 at the Lyric Theatre!

The performance opens with the Kansas City premiere of Jerome Robbins’ Moves. Danced without musical accompaniment, Moves features the stark clarity of the body as an expressive instrument, placing the focus on precise and changing choreographic patterns. Jennifer Dunning of The New York Times called Moves, “An extraordinarily powerful experience as theater and dance. Mr. Robbins achieves so much in the
simplest terms.”

Also on the program:

Mercy of the Elements
World Premiere by William Whitener
Music: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
“A Kansas City Ballet world premiere with “representation of stark realism in the theater; the movement must speak for itself, and the rhythms of the dance are enacted by the dancers.”
- Choreographer William Whitener

The Catherine Wheel Suite
Choreography: Twyla Tharp
Music: David Byrne
The New Yorker calls The Catherine Wheel Suite, “A multi-level poetic fantasy with a twist of scalawag comedy.”

PHOTO CREDITS
Dancer Michael Eaton. Sara Forrest Photography.