Your virtual fun planner: Dancing with Kansas City Ballet and Friends of Alvin Ailey
The Kansas City Ballet is helping to fill the dancing void caused by the COVID-19 crisis with KCBallet@Home.
The ballet company, which postponed or canceled productions, classes and all other events through the end of its season May 17, has launched the online project with on-demand performances, dance workouts, classes and more. The highlights include limited video runs of performances from past seasons and the Official KC Ballet Workout with ballet master Kristi Capps.
In the podcast series “Music Moves,” KC Ballet musical director Ramona Pansegrau discusses her favorite ballets. Also, the site will offer a live Facebook event of Company Class at 2 p.m. every Tuesday through May 12.
Check kcballet.org/kc-ballet-at-home for all these virtual offerings.
Here are 10 more online ways you and your family can spend your coronavirus-induced stay-at-home time:
▪ Buttonwood Art Space will present “Kansas City 2020,” a benefit exhibition for Kansas City Parks and Recreation with works featuring Kansas City’s icons, monuments, cityscapes and more, April 30-June 26 at buttonwoodartspace.com.
▪ Five works from filmmaking students at the Kansas City Art Institute, May 1-3 at vimeo.com/kcaifilm and at 3 p.m. May 3 (followed by Q&A) at screenlandonline.com.
▪ Local singer/songwriter Una Walkenhorst will perform as part of #DoStuffAtHome, 4 p.m. May 1 at do816.com.
▪ Preview performance of the Lawrence Arts Center’s “The Silent One, A Digital Street Opera” with seven chapters in seven days, 7 p.m. May 1-7 at lawrenceartscenter.org.
▪ The Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey virtual gala ($100) will include presentations, prizes and dance performances by Ailey II and KCFAA students, 6 p.m. May 2 at kcfaa.org/2020gala.
▪ ArtsKC and KC Crew present Friday Night Arts, with six artists or musicians from their home studios, 6 p.m. Fridays ($10) at kccrew.com/events/friday-night-arts.
▪ The Youth Symphony of Kansas City presents video from an earlier concert at the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts. Watch at 3 p.m. May 3 on the Youth Symphony’s Facebook page.
▪ Kansas City Public Theatre’s Online 10-Minute Play Project, 7:30 p.m. May 4 and 5 at facebook.com/kcpublictheatre.
▪ Wonderscope Children’s Museum provides educational and fun resources through livestreaming and videos at youtube.com.
▪ Fine Arts Theatres has begun virtual screenings of movies at fineartsgroup.com/#virtual.
