Kansas City Ballet

Kansas City Ballet
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.org
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.