Alonzo King LINES Ballet
At Ted Shawn Theatre: Aug 3 - Aug 7
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About
This performance took place August 3—7, 2022. Scroll for more information.
Lauded as creating “the most sophisticated modernism in classical dance” (Los Angeles Times), choreographer Alonzo King is renowned for imbuing classical ballet with new expressive potential. He has been hailed as a visionary and is the recipient of the 2008 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award. LINES Ballet returns, with dancers that are “handsome, sleek, accomplished, and individual” (The New York Times).
Alonzo King LINES Ballet performed a stunning series of works set to music by composers including Gabriel Fauré, Edgar Meyer and Zakir Hussain, as well as AZOTH, inspired by the element mercury, set to music by venerable jazz musicians including saxophonist Charles Lloyd and pianist/composer Jason Moran. This bold work featured a light installation by renowned Bay Area artist Jim Campbell. When the program premiered in LINES’ native San Francisco, it was called “absolutely a triumph” (The Bay Area Reporter).
EXPLORE ALONZO KING LINES BALLET
Watch the Post-Show Talk
This Post-Show Talk features the Choreographer, Artistic Director & Co-Founder of LINES Ballet, Alonzo King, in conversation with Scholar-in-Residence Judy Tyrus.
Read The Program and PillowNotes
In the Press
“[Alonzo King] presents a program that illustrates, powerfully, his decades-long investigation into the flow between the physical and the metaphysical.” Read more from Janine Parker in The Boston Globe.
WATCH ALONZO KING LINES BALLET ON JACOB’S PILLOW DANCE INTERACTIVE:
