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Audrey Lynn, a member of Kansas City Ballet’s second company, attended summer intensives at American Ballet Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Kaatsbaan Ballet Intensive, the School of American Ballet, and the Harid Conservatory before starting her professional career. Being from North Carolina and traveling to these programs by plane, she became proficient in packing for up […]

Kansas City Ballet’s Kelsey Hellebuyck cringes when she thinks back to her first few months in pointe shoes. “I started out wearing no padding,” she remembers. “I had all these open blisters, so then I tried paper towels.” But the towels would shred, and her blisters just got worse. After a lot of trial and […]