Culture through Ballroom Dance

                2010 BALLROOM DANCE FESTIVAL!

Tuesday May 11th, 7 pm, the KCMO School District's 40 th annual Performing Arts Festival presented the 5 annual ballroom dance performance at Southwest Early College Campus, 6512 Wornall Road, Kansas City, MO 64113.   The dancers all did a fabulous job.  In addition, for the 2010 show also included a special wheelchair dancing presentation.  For video, see our "Pictures and Video" page.

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2009 / 2010 Particpating Schools

Participation this school year started with Attucks Elementary, Border Star, Foreign Language Academy, and Gladstone Academy from the Kansas City, Missouri School District.  Funding was in short supply to start with, but thanks to an incoming grant, a significant donation and help from LINC, we were later able to add classes in Ladd, Pinkerton, and Swinney elementary schools.  In addition, Southwest Early College Campus joined in late in the semester with Latin dance lessons and participated in the Ballroom Dance Festival for the 1st time.

All of the 6th graders at Center School District Middle School also took ballroom dancing this school year and gave a fabulous performance to show off there new skills. 

Area school districts have been severly hit by budget cuts so we would ask any possible sponsors to check out our "How You Can Help" page.

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PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS 2008/2009 school year

Schools participating in the Kansas City Missouri School district for the 2008/2009 school year were Attucks, Border Star, Foreign Language Academy, Gladstone Academy, Ladd, Pinkerton and Swinney and Wheatley, as well as private high schools, Cristo Rey and DeLasalle.  Working with "Kansas City Young Audiences" we also had teachers in the Center School District and several schools in the Olathe School District.  

Dancers in all three school districts put on fantastic year end performance!

BALLROOM DANCE FESTIVAL 2008

The Kansas City MO School District's 3rd Annual Ballroom Dance Festival was held on the evening of May 15th to rave reviews!   Schools participating were Border Star, Fairmount, Foreign Language Academy, Gladstone Academy, Phillps, Pinkerton and Swinney.  The dances performed were Merengue, Salsa, Swing, Cha Cha, Tango, Fox Trot, the Electric Slide and both the Cha Cha Line Dance and the Saturday Night Fever Line Dance.  The student dancers were all dressed up in their finest clothes and put on a spectacular show!  Click on the following link for video. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S80rnBgXKI0

For Video of the 2009 Ballroom Dance Festival see our pictures and video page.

Additions to the show May 15th 2009 were the Musical Merengue contest and the Michael Jackson Thriller Line Dane as the grand finale! 

Summer School Dance Classes and Performance

Participating schools in 2009 Summer school dance classes were Attucks, Gladstone Academy and Holliday Montessori.  

Other performances

Our dancers also perform for other events throughout the year.  For inquiries about our dancers performing for your organization, contact Dr. Will Adams at todance@swbell.net  or call 816-781-6514.   

Culture through Ballroom Dance was honored by the Kansas City Royals Baseball Club, Sept 18th!   Dr. Will Adams was awarded the Buck O'Neil legacy seats for that night's game in honor of his founding of "Culture through Ballroom Dance" and his community service teaching children etiquette and self esteem through the art of ballroom dancing. 

 Educating children was near and dear to the heart of the late baseball legend, Buck O'Neil, who was a Royals season ticket holder. For each game, his former seats are awarded to someone who most exemplifies his qualities of community service. 

Congratulations to Dr. Adams!   (Click on the link below for video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a7PCHTVYnk