STUDIO PRODUCTION FROM THE KERNER STUDIOS, SAN FRANCISCO, 2011
ALONZO KING LINES BALLET

Idea and Choreographies by
ALONZO KING

The choreographer Alonzo King, acclaimed as „one of the few, true Ballet Masters of our times“ by world-famous William Forsythe, works with his company The Alonzo King LINES Ballet in San Francisco. Before founding LINES Ballet in 1982 King has been working for companies around the world, including the Frankfurt Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet, the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, the Washington Ballet and the Hong Kong Ballet. With its global perspective on dance the LINES Ballet attracts worldwide attention combining modern dance and classical ballet. Alonzo King
gives his dancers the chance to get involved into the creative process of the choreography. Critics often comment on the „new language“ or „re-invention of form“ arising in King‘s choreographies.

TRIANGLE OF THE SQUINCHES
Music by Mickey Hart // Visual Design by Christoper Haas

DUST AND LIGHT
Music by Arcangelo Corelli and Francis Poulenc

SCHEHERAZADE
Music by Zakir Hussain after Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov // Visual Design by Robert Rosenwasser

„Alonzo King is one of the few, true Ballet Masters of our times. His intimacy with Ballet‘s multiple histories has made his choreography rich with the complex refractions that demonstrate a full command of the art‘s intricacies...“ William Forsythe

„The most sophisticated modernism in classical dance. The number of ballet choreographers who live – and create – solely in the present are so few that one of his distinction must be accounted the artistic equivalent of a shooting star.“ Los Angeles Times