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Join KCPT and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art May 4 at 6pm for a special premiere of the new KCPT documentary “Putting Down Roots: Roxy Paine’s Ferment,” about the creation of the brilliant sculpture. After the film, curators and the film’s producer Randy Mason will host a discussion about the newest addition to the Kansas City Sculpture Park.

The event is FREE. but tickets are required for admission. Reserve your seat on the Nelson-Atkins’ events page.

Burn The Floor is the international dance sensation that takes ballroom dancing to a new height. Burn The Floor is comprised of the top ballroom dancers from all over the world, each of whom has spent a lifetime training to compete against other dance couples.

Call 1-888-203-1747, become a member and receive tickets to the May 18, 2012 performance at The Kauffman Center.

Handel’s opera Rodelinda stars soprano Renee Fleming in the title role of Rodelinda, with German countertenor Andreas Scholl as Bertarido and mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe as his sister, Eduige. Harry Bicket conducts.

Watch Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 2pm.

Watch GP at the Met: Rodelinda on PBS. See more from Great Performances.

Artists Ai Weiwei, El Anatsui and Catherine Opie bear witness, through their work, to transformation — cultural, material, and aesthetic — and actively engage communities as collaborators and subjects.

ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, the only primetime national television series to focus exclusively on contemporary art and artists, returns to PBS for a sixth season. Through in-depth profiles and interviews, the series reveals the inspiration, vision and techniques behind the creative works of some of the most accomplished contemporary artists.

Watch Friday, April 13, 2012 at 9pm.

Watch Trailer: Season 6, Art in the Twenty-First Century on PBS. See more from ART:21.

Mary Harris Francis collected toys. Barbara Hall Marshall fancied fine miniatures. These two women’s distinctly different collections are the backbone of Kansas City’s Toy & Miniature Museum at 52nd & Oak. All year round, its 33,000 square feet of displays lure the young and young at heart. Sometimes the museum, as it will this weekend with its Nettie Wells dollhouse, finds special ways to celebrate a child’s imagination and the spirit of play.

Nettie Wells, as portrayed by Maycee Steele, will share stories of her dollhouse at the Toy & Miniature Museum this Saturday with another performance later this summer.

Pictured: Nettie Wells' daughter Jane and actress Maycee Steele

Six months after the opening of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, one of its most potent acoustic features has yet to be fully appreciated. That is until now.

We begin this week by introducing you to the newly installed musical centerpiece inside Helzberg Hall. A pipe organ considered one of the finest concert instruments in the country.

Crafted in the French romantic tradition, it features close to 6,000 pipes, 79 stops and 102 ranks.

It was built by Casavant, the 125 year old French-Canadian Firm, a company renowned for quality organs that have stood the test of time.

With a concert coming up at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts on May 12th and a new CD on the way this summer, the Kansas City Chorale continues to be a vital part of our city’s cultural life with 30 years of music-making that has been honored with Grammy Awards and international acclaim. This week, in conjunction with KC Studio Magazine, our PerformArts series zooms in on the Chorale.

The Kansas City Chorale, with guests from the Phoenix Chorale, will perform masterworks by Russian composers in Helzberg Hall on Saturday, May 12.

“The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater” brings to life the words and music of the American Yiddish theater. The story’s lead characters — Bessie and Boris Thomashefky — are the grandparents of San Francisco Symphony music director Michael Tilson Thomas. Bessie and Boris immigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe in the 1880s, and while still in their teens, they began to play major roles in the development of New York City’s Yiddish theater. For Jewish immigrants who settled on the lower East Side of Manhattan, the Yiddish the