Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Fall Season 2024
| Ticket Information Regular Price: $42 - $124 Group of 10+: 10% Discount Students: 10% Discount in Terrace Family Experience: $32 Ticket prices include all box office fees and facility fees. Run Time: 1 Hour, 20 Minutes (with 20 min intermission) Saturday, September 28 includes a post-performance Q&A with Alonzo King. |
This season, Alonzo King LINES Ballet honors legendary spiritual leader, composer, pianist, and harpist Alice Coltrane and the imaginative storytelling of composer Maurice Ravel through Alonzo King’s choreography.
King has been mesmerized by Coltrane’s music since he was a child—he choreographed one of his very first pieces to her work. He now returns to her body of work to create a ballet as part of “The Year of Alice,” a nationwide tribute to her legacy that includes performances and exhibits by LINES Ballet, Impulse! Records, Detroit Jazz Festival, Hammer Museum, and the New-York Historical Society. “Her musical and spiritual journey helped define and shape a life and an entire musical genre,” says Grammy-nominated harpist and composer Brandee Younger. Coltrane’s iconic works include Journey In Satchidananda (one of Rolling Stone’s 500 greatest albums), A Monastic Trio, Universal Consciousness, and Ptah, the El Daoud.
The Fall 2024 Season will also feature Alonzo King’s recent collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony. Here the LINES Ballet dancers delve into the enchanting world of Ravel’s 1912 suite Ma mère l’Oye (Mother Goose), infusing the music with a new interpretation. “I’m not trying to recreate Mother Goose fairy tales,” says King. “My intention is to unearth the deeper allegorical meanings beneath the fairy tales and illustrate those with dance.”
LINES Ballet is grateful to our Season Presenting Sponsor, BMO.
King has been mesmerized by Coltrane’s music since he was a child—he choreographed one of his very first pieces to her work. He now returns to her body of work to create a ballet as part of “The Year of Alice,” a nationwide tribute to her legacy that includes performances and exhibits by LINES Ballet, Impulse! Records, Detroit Jazz Festival, Hammer Museum, and the New-York Historical Society. “Her musical and spiritual journey helped define and shape a life and an entire musical genre,” says Grammy-nominated harpist and composer Brandee Younger. Coltrane’s iconic works include Journey In Satchidananda (one of Rolling Stone’s 500 greatest albums), A Monastic Trio, Universal Consciousness, and Ptah, the El Daoud.
The Fall 2024 Season will also feature Alonzo King’s recent collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony. Here the LINES Ballet dancers delve into the enchanting world of Ravel’s 1912 suite Ma mère l’Oye (Mother Goose), infusing the music with a new interpretation. “I’m not trying to recreate Mother Goose fairy tales,” says King. “My intention is to unearth the deeper allegorical meanings beneath the fairy tales and illustrate those with dance.”
LINES Ballet is grateful to our Season Presenting Sponsor, BMO.
“King’s choreography for Ma mère l’Oye (Mother Goose) is as colorful and eye-popping as the music is ear-filling.” —San Francisco Classical Voice
About Alonzo King LINES Ballet:
Alonzo King LINES Ballet is a celebrated contemporary ballet company that has been guided since 1982 by the artistic vision of acclaimed choreographer Alonzo King. Collaborating with extraordinary composers, musicians, writers, and visual artists from around the world, King draws on a diverse set of deeply rooted cultural traditions, imbuing classical ballet with new expressive potential. He has been heralded as a visionary and thought leader, receiving numerous accolades such as a San Francisco Arts Medallion, an induction into the California Hall of Fame, and a 2020 Dance Magazine Award. The company brings new works of illuminating beauty to Bay Area audiences in bi-annual home seasons, and LINES Ballet’s national and international tours allow the company to share its vision of transformative, revelatory dance through performances worldwide.
LINES Ballet is also dedicated to training the next generation of artists through its pre-professional Summer Program, Training Program, and Bachelor of Fine Arts Program with Dominican University of California. LINES makes dance accessible to Bay Area adults and youth as well through world-class, affordable ballet classes open to the community and free, in-school education programs.
LINES Ballet is also dedicated to training the next generation of artists through its pre-professional Summer Program, Training Program, and Bachelor of Fine Arts Program with Dominican University of California. LINES makes dance accessible to Bay Area adults and youth as well through world-class, affordable ballet classes open to the community and free, in-school education programs.
For more information, visit linesballet.org/fall-2024
Photography: Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Marusya Madubuko & Babatunji | © RJ Muna
  Photography: Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Shuaib Elhassan & Adji Cissoko | © RJ Muna Photography: Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Maël Amatoul | © RJ Muna |
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