Kansas City Ballet is expanding its footprint with bigger studios and a more inclusive mission

Kansas City Ballet is expanding its South Campus, located in Prairie Village's Meadowbrook Shopping Center, at 95th Street and Nall Avenue. The reimagined building allows the school to offer a wider range of classes for children and adults.
Kansas City Ballet will reopen later this month its $2.1 million South Campus, at 95th Street and Nall Avenue in Prairie Village, Kansas.

The Ballet has operated a dance school at the location since 2002, but a $2.1 million expansion and renovation of the facility will double the number of studios and more than triple its square footage — from 3,400 square feet to almost 12,000 square feet.

Scaffolding still covered the building on July 12, when Chief Operations Officer Kevin Amey led staff on a tour of large studios, dressing rooms, and modern waiting and administrative areas, all designed by the Kansas City-founded architecture firm BNIM.