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LINES Ballet, an international touring company based in San Francisco, performs unique contemporary ballets created by Alonzo King. Established 26 years ago, LINES Ballet continues to receive acclaim for Alonzo King’s visionary choreography, and for the extraordinary quality of its dancers. When not on tour—performing in venues from the Venice Biennale to the Movimentos Festival in Germany to Montpellier Danse—the Company also appears onstage during spring and fall home seasons in San Francisco.
Collaborating with noted composers, musicians, and visual artists, Alonzo King creates works that draw on a diverse set of deeply rooted cultural traditions and imbue classical ballet with new expressive potential. Alonzo King’s choreography is renowned for its ability to connect audiences to a profound sense of shared humanity—of vulnerability and tenderness, but also of furious abandon and exhilarating freedom.
Last year, the newly formed United States Artists organization recognized 50 outstanding living artists in America: Alonzo King was awarded one of the four Fellowships in Dance nationwide, and the only one in California. The USA Fellowship is the second major award given to Alonzo King in the past three years, since he was also honored with the Bessie Award for Choreographer / Creator in 2005. He has also been the recipient of the NEA Choreographer's Fellowship, the Irvine Dance Fellowship, and five Isadora Duncan awards. This year also marks the Company’s fifth Princess Grace Award, given to LINES dancer Meredith Webster in Fall 2007.
Six years ago, the LINES Ballet School and Pre-Professional Program were established, in order to develop the potential of young dancers. LINES Ballet continues its commitment to dance education and community involvement through the San Francisco Dance Center, now one of the largest dance facilities on the West Coast. In Fall 2006, LINES Ballet embarked on a partnership with the Dominican University of California, inaugurating the Joint BFA Program in Dance; this is the only Joint BFA program in the country to be led by an active, world-renowned choreographer. This spring, the BFA
program’s performance was chosen out of 47 in the Southwest Regional Conference of the American College Dance Festival to represent the conference in New York at the national level, and a BFA student was named Best Performer at the Conference.
Click here to read our 2006/07 Annual Report
