This year’s Gala performance features the internationally acclaimed Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for the first time in six years. A dinner celebration at Loews Kansas City Hotel and the best dance party will follow.

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey; Making dance accessible to all people by presenting the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Ailey II, teaching young people critical life skills through dance, and modeling interracial and multi-cultural community partnerships.