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Kansas City Ballet Guild 2024-2025 Relevé Members

 (Front row) Jeanie Murphy, Juliette Singer, Sunday Siragusa, Karen Yungmeyer, Ron Fredman, Jody Stephen, Nan Lippincott, Angela Walker, John Walker, Lynne Weilert, and Carl Weilert (second row) Angela Moore, Cindy Wurm, Bonnie Fredrick, Barbara Spilker, Melissa Cavanaugh, Shawn Conwell, Michele Hamlett-Weith, Kimberlee Ried, Barbara Storm, Suzanne Shank, Kathy Anderson, Jenny Manka, Jo Anne Dondlinger, Teresa McKinney, Denise Bennett, Peggy Younger, Lisa Sirridge, Vicki Baxter, and Lisa Hickok (third row) Barbara Nash, Vicki DuBois, Susan Sands, John Yungmeyer, Darlus Wolff, Christine Walton, Megan Bubb, Julia Kim Malter, Alison Wilde Jump, Grace Ingham, Stacy Brooks, Melinda Petet, Peggy Beal, Mary Beth Hershey, and Lucy Coulson (fourth row) Randee Krumwiede, Sarah Bent, Leslie Anderson, Vicki Dickerson, Robert Kadavy, Bobbie Mathes, Susan Bubb, Sharon Soetaert, Craig Sole, Carrie Kruse, Jennifer Pontier, and David Gray, Kansas City Ballet

Featured in the March 8, 2025 issue of The Independent
Photo credit: Mark McDonald

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