KM & Friends is a ballet community for dancers of all ages and aspirations. We provide high-quality ballet education, online and in-person, and create spaces where dancers are valued for who they are as people above their level of proficiency — where the joy of focusing on the process more than the product is intentionally kept front and center.
June is the last month for our livestream classes, and we will have seven classes with varying instructors over the course of the month! Starting in July we will be a fully on-demand platform.
Over 100 classes of varying styles for all different levels, with more classes added every month. You'll find full-length classes, 30 minute cardio barres, variation workshops, and conditioning.
Our final in-person event EVER is happening this fall! Join us for a 3 day mini-Retreat October 17-19th at the beautiful Mark Morris Dance Center in New York City. Tickets available NOW!
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Our On-Demand membership offers unlimited access to our FULL on demand library, including live class recordings, and exclusive access to our Building A Foundation course and our Ballet Glossary videos.
Founded in 2020 by respected ballerina, educator, judge, and influencer Kathryn Morgan, KM & Friends is a ballet community for dancers of all ages and aspirations. It was born out of a desire to strip ballet of its more harmful practices, and build a space where dancers are valued for who they are as people above their level of proficiency — where the joy of focusing on the process more than the product is intentionally kept front and center.
KM & Friends currently offers livestream and on-demand online classes, as well as digital and in-person workshops at multiple locations across the country.
While many of KM & Friends’ students have professional aspirations, we encourages all dancers to explore what’s possible when you take away the idea of “making it” as a ballerina, and to continually revisit what initially made them fall in love with ballet.
The friendly, encouraging and welcoming atmosphere from both Kathryn and the event attendees was wonderful! It is something special and rare to be able to learn from a professional dancer if you're not on the professional track yourself.
- Adult Retreat Attendee
I FINALLY signed up as a member, and it’s such a great value for everything the membership entails. I’m so grateful for the extra instruction. I live in a small community, and while the ballet instruction I receive is excellent, I don’t have a lot of ballet class opportunities.
- KM & Friends Member
This retreat was life changing for me. I realized I am stronger than I thought I was, and am passionately looking forward improving my skills in the upcoming year. It was inspirational to see adult dancers of all ages, nationalities and ethnicities giving it their all. Kathryn has such a calming presence.
- Adult Retreat Attendee
I'm a "senior" with a lot of really good prior training just getting back after 20+ years. Kathryn's classes are great - I love her warmth. As someone with a PT and kinesiology background who has taught Kinesiology for dancers, I'm impressed with her explanations of technique and focus on good form.
- KM & Friends Member
Kathryn Morgan is a modern-day ballerina, blazing a career path for herself outside of the confines of company life. In addition to being a popular performer, teacher, judge, and influencer, Kathryn is the founder of Kathryn Morgan & Friends, a community focused on the joy that ballet can bring to dancers when they are valued for who they are above their level of proficiency.
Kathryn began her professional career in 2006 as an apprentice with New York City Ballet, and was promoted to soloist in 2009. She left the company in 2012 while battling an auto-immune illness, and made an awe-inspiring return to the stage seven years later as a soloist with Miami City Ballet.
She danced with MCB for a year before making a decision to step away from company life in 2020 to pursue dancing on her own terms.
As a performer, Kathryn is known for her feminine, artistic quality and musicality; some of her more notable performances include Aurora in Peter Martins’ Sleeping Beauty, Juliet in Peter Martins’ Romeo & Juliet, and the Striptease girl in George Balanchine’s Slaughter on Tenth Avenue.
Maria Montanez is a marketing strategist who comes to KM & Friends with over 10 years experience working at Gaynor Minden, ultimately as their Marketing Director. She’s also worked as a consultant for Cloud & Victory, for lululemon, and in 2020 she co-founded Other Space Innovation, a consulting firm offering discovery and strategy services for the dance product industry.
Currently, in addition to running KM & Friends, she is a certified Level 1 GYROTONIC® instructor, and trains privately in Philadelphia.
As far as ballet goes, Maria trained pre-professionally in Columbia, SC before receiving her BFA in dance with a concentration in business administration from Florida State University, and dancing with The Tallahassee Ballet.
Carrie Stein comes to KM & Friends after having been a chemistry professor for over a decade at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA. She brings her teaching background to help plan curriculum and organize events, as well as assist Kathryn with longer-term projects.
In terms of ballet, Carrie trained pre-professionally in the Monterey County area before attending Westmont College for her undergraduate degrees in chemistry and dance. She still dances regularly, and has taught adult classes locally.
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