Fall in Love with Dance is celebrating the launch of new nonprofit Inner Star Performing Arts, the Grand Opening of Gemini Ballroom and an Open House for Ballet Nevada.

New York Choreographic Institute Diamond Award-winner Caroline Beach is just 19, and her world premiere "Under the Sun" shows this is a young artist to watch. Beach transforms the dancers into a restless lot -- vampires or other extraordinary beings -- and they slash through space, propelled by a stormy John Adams score. She favors contrasts, particularly sharp angles that blur into soft embraces. Beach gives us a troubled realm but moments of connection also reveal lost innocence. The work could benefit from stronger editing, however, to sharpen its bite.

The Kansas City Star reported the ballet is renovating the dilapidated historic structure at Union Station Power House. The new Todd Bolender Center for Dance and Creativity is scheduled to be finished in 2011.

The center is scheduled to open around the same time as the new $405 million Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

Even more than her talent, it is Margot’s courage – the extraordinary capacity she possessed not to blow it, to get it right when it counted, on the night – that students at White Lodge (the Royal Ballet lower school) are trying to tap into when they touch hands with her famous statue (by Maurice Lambert, brother of the composer Constant), wearing away the bronze of Margot’s middle finger with the passing of the years.

They still think it would be worth it to be her, even though they know she led a relentlessly exhausting, romantically disappointing, politically idiotic, childless life, and had died in near poverty before they were born. Despite never having seen her dance, they are in thrall to her, just as I was in my native Australia, growing up in the 50s, 12,000 miles from Covent Garden.