Category: Performing
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Artist to Watch: Leo Gayden
In recent months we have basked in the triumph of Misty Copeland, 33, the Kansas City native who in 2015 became the first African-American woman promoted to principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre. In April of last year Copeland was named one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World” by TIME magazine.
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Summer of Shakespeare in KC
In 1623, a couple of guys got together and self-published some work by a dead friend of theirs named William Shakespeare. Four hundred years later, this piece of “vanity publishing” is considered to be the crown jewel of our Western canon. Shakespeare’s First Folio, as it is now known, is one of the most influential and treasured books in history.