The dance company's spring concert features two original works. One honors the participants in Wichita's 1958 Dockum Drug Store sit-in, a key moment in the Civil Rights Movement.
A national tour brought the multi-faceted performer to Kansas City's Uptown Theater, only a couple hours' drive from her hometown of Manhattan, Kansas.
The grassroots art capital of Kansas hosts an annual event 'by artists and for everyone.'
Life goes on, like a flash — in this poignant production, 85 years fly by. Performances continue through March 22.
A retrospective of works from 1975-2025 functions as a 'meditation on life itself — its tensions, transformations, and fragile beauty.'
'The game, in a way, is helping us to go forward in life. We have to pay attention and respond to such difficulties, but we also have to keep living.'
The Guild Hall Players present the Shakespearean tragedy as a Gilded Age mystery to unravel.
"If you mess something up, you can usually fix it, even if you have to change the size of what you're doing."
Though the 2011 sculpture barely came to be, its impact goes beyond stated references to aviation and Native American history.
