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Wrestling as performance art?

While usually considered a form of sport, professional wrestling can also be viewed as performance art, being both visual and dramatic, with its own vernacular and creative strategies.

Artist to Watch: Destiny Mermagen

KPR’s new music director has made her mark as a radio host, performer, recording artist and concert organizer.

‘Anselm Kiefer: Becoming the Sea’

The Saint Louis Art Museum marks the German master’s 80th birthday with a powerful retrospective.

Reviews

Articles

New Year, “New Moves“ at Kansas City Ballet

As many of us resolve to do after the indulgences of the holiday season, KC Ballet begins each new year with a lean, clean approach.

Performing

“Kimberly Akimbo” Is All Heart, Bolstered by Surprising Depth

Ann Morrison leads the Broadway touring company of "Kimberly Akimbo" as a New Jersey teen with a chromosomal disorder that makes her age at approximately four to five times the normal rate.

Visual

“Earth Symphony: Rita Blitt,” Leedy-Voulkos Art Center

When I first read the title of Rita Blitt’s exhibition, “Earth Symphony,” visions of Wassily Kandinsky’s symphonic improvisations and compositions wandered through my mind.

Honors: Vanessa Aricco

The Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Fellow pairs poetry, sound and pop culture with hula hoops and other unexpected props.

Concert to Come: Lyric Opera of Kansas City presents ‘Porgy and Bess’

The production, part of 250th anniversary celebrations of the Declaration of Independence, marks the Lyric's first presentation of the iconic opera.

Arts News: Atlas9 immersive art experience in KCK

“Enter the Reel World. Suspend Disbelief. Look for Anomalies.”

Arts Consortium

Performing

MTC Hosts Winterlude Jazz Festival

Kansas City’s best artists welcome Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra to the Midwest Trust Center for a weekend of unforgettable jazz music March 7-8.

Performing

Störling Dance Theater: 30 Years of Creativity, Beauty and Impactful Storytelling

Jeremiah and Mona Enna, founders of Störling Dance Theater and The Culture House (photo by Isaac Alongi) They say a picture is worth a thousand..

Performing

As Easy as a Star

Joyce DiDonato and Time for Three will perform “No Prisoner Be,” Kevin Puts’ musical setting of Emily Dickinson’s crystalline poetry, Feb. 14 at the Folly Theater.