Stretch your body and your mind as you learn and perform three short pieces in our Adult Choreography Intensive 2023! At the end of the weekend, you will be a stronger and more versatile dancer.

During the intensive, you’ll work with three different choreographers of three separate genres. ArVejon Jones will guide you on a journey through jazz. He has a fierce passion for the style and an encyclopedic knowledge. Katie Roy will share her process for creating contemporary movement, understanding your organic impulse, and tapping into your innate creativity. And Victor Talledos will open your world to contemporary ballet, demonstrating how traditional movement can be broadened to make fresh, new artistic statements.

Our Adult Choreography Intensive 2023 culminates in an in-person showing in one of our studios, a great opportunity to perform for friends, family, and peers.

BFA Program 2023 Senior Projects

Join us for the second weekend of the BFA 2023 Senior Projects! This annual performance features choreography created by the LINES Ballet BFA Program at Dominican University of California Class of 2023 students. Celebrate the culmination of 4 years of creative exploration through these highly original and personal works by seniors Simone Carcer, Sharif Claxton, Emma Debski, Haley Schmitt, Pakela Newalu-Gomes, Nyah Malone, and Arpege Wallace.

Photography: Alonzo King LINES Ballet | BFA at Dominican | Steve Disenhof

BFA Program 2023 Senior Projects

Join us for the first weekend of the LINES Ballet BFA Program at Dominican University of California’s 2023 Senior Projects! This annual performance features student choreography created by the Class of 2023. Celebrate the culmination of 4 years of creative exploration through these highly original and personal projects by seniors Leilana Majri, Madeline Sager, Adison Sampson, Eva Silverton, Alyssa Viray, Angel Warden-Palmer, and Hannah Woolfenden.

Photography: Alonzo King LINES Ballet | BFA at Dominican | Steve Disenhof

In this workshop, Devon Chen PT, DPT, OCS, and Nol Simonse will lead dancers in a fun, engaging process designed to deepen our awareness of our bodies and artistic capabilities.

Nol will teach material from his piece “clown cage,” created and performed with Miche Wong in a residency at Deborah Slater’s Studio 210. This material is challenging, and designed to increase memory, stamina, and performative qualities. The workshop is open to dancers at any level, but the phrases being taught are geared towards intermediate dancers.

Devon will guide dancers in an exploration of movement to gain a better understanding of the anatomy and bio-mechanics of dance. Each class will focus on a different topic that will enable dancers to break down barriers that have been holding them back. 

Approach your body and dancing from different points of view—grow and stretch your knowledge and capabilities with these two wonderful teachers!

Photography: LINES Dance Center | Chris Hardy

Joshua Francique creates a welcoming space that honors individuality with the freedom to explore unique movement qualities. Inspired by a fusion of Horton, Graham, and Jazz; this class allows dancers to groove, using specific modern techniques as a pathway for creative movement/thinking and body conditioning. Drawing focus to human connection, musicality, and an over all feel good experience sure to develop your mind, movement language, and soul.

Photo Credit: Michelle Reid

This beginning modern class is designed for those with little to no experience with modern dance techniques. We will dive deeper into the vocabulary of modern dance classes, using Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff fundamentals as a guiding point to explore release techniques through an embodied practice. Dancers will explore exercises that utilize weight-shifts, floor-work, rhythm, transitions, level changes, and direction changes, with a focus on personal strength and safety for the individual dancer.

Countertechnique® is a contemporary dance technique class. It stretches, coordinates, and strengthens the body, making the dancer sweat, build stamina, and really move. The class starts with a recurring set of exercises, allowing dancers to investigate the Countertechnique principles in detail. The second half of the class consists of changing components, working towards luscious movement combinations and jumping at the end. As a result, dancers will use less energy, lose their fear of taking risks, and gain speed in changing directions.

Photo Credit: Alonzo King LINES Ballet I Dance Center I Kim Doeleman

Alonzo King LINES Ballet

ADULT DANCE INTENSIVE (In-Person and Online)

Geared for the professional and non-professional dancer alike, this intensive for adults offers you an immersive training opportunity. You will develop personal artistry and improve your technique in intimate contact renowned faculty and the philosophy and approach of Alonzo King.

Discover your own artistry, change your perspective and experience LINES.
— Open to all levels of experience
— Daily classes in ballet technique plus Contemporary, Jazz, Somatics, Global Dance, LINES Repertory, and more, with our former LINES Ballet company dancers and our renowned faculty
— Explore the creative process with Alonzo King

ADULT DANCE INTENSIVE TEACHERS AND SCHEDULE
Drop-ins welcome for all classes at $30 per class. Drop-in for class with Alonzo King is $75.

THURSDAY, MAY 26 CLASSES

Grounding and Groundwork with Samuel Malecio-Zambrano
Thursday, May 26 | 6:15 – 7:30pm

FRIDAY, MAY 27 CLASSES

Mat Pilates with Christina Briggs
10:00 – 11:00am

Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Kara Wilkes
11:15am – 12:45pm

Improv with Daiane Lopes da Silva
2:00 – 3:15pm

Horton Choreography with Victor Talledos
3:30 – 4:45pm

Contemporary Jazz with Lynn Brilhante
5:00 – 6:15pm

SATURDAY, MAY 28 CLASSES

Yoga with Rondy Isaac
10:00 – 11:00am

Afro-Contemporary with ArVejon Jones
11:15am – 12:45pm

Heart with LINES Pedagogy with Mary Carbonara
2:00 – 3:15pm

Master Class and Conversation with Alonzo King (Drop-Ins Welcome for $75)
3:30 – 4:45pm

SUNDAY, MAY 29 CLASSES

Contemporary with Erik Wagner
10:00 – 11:00am

Making Dance Film with Smartphones with The San Francisco Dance Film Festival
11:15am – 12:45pm

Choreographic Process with Gregory Dawson
2:00 – 3:15pm

Bridging in Practice: Ballet and Hip Hop with Kathy Mata and Jamie Carter
3:30 – 4:45pm

Schedule and classes subject to change.
All classes are hybrid, except Improv with Daiane Lopes da Silva.

Join Alonzo King LINES Ballet on tour in Echirolles, France performing King’s Common Ground and Handel at La Rampe.

Common Ground
With Common Ground, Alonzo King joined the famous Kronos Quartet to create an ode to the city of San Francisco. Two of the most influential cultural ambassadors of this artistic capital, King and Kronos created a visionary collaboration. The musicians explored the string quartet in a permanent conversation with the dancers. Together they invented before our eyes the vocabulary of a new classical dance… one of fluidity, technicality and grace. Experience King and Kronos Quartet’s masterpiece on tour with stunning recorded music and live dance.

Handel
In 1741, Händel said of his last composition: “Whether I was in my body or outside of it when I wrote it, I do not know …”. By exploring his work in Handel, Alonzo King is in turn touched by grace: a messenger of the celestial harmony of bodies, he restores the dramatic elegance of baroque expression in an evocative choreography that resonates deeply with the nobility of the music. The pure lines of the dancers miraculously reflect Händel’s vision of a new balance between thematic richness and simplicity.

Photo Credit: Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Dancers: Ashley Mayeux and James Gowan | © Chris Hardy

ALONZO KING LINES BALLET

SPRING SEASON 2019

TICKETS ON SALE

Join us for a season of experimentation as Alonzo King LINES Ballet partners with Emmy Award-winning Vietnamese musician and composer, Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ.
Tickets

PERFORMANCES
Friday, April 12 | 7:30 PM	Thursday, April 18 | 7:30 PM*
Saturday, April 13 | 7:00 PM***	Friday, April 19 | 7:30 PM
Sunday, April 14 | 5:00 PM	Saturday, April 20 | 2:00** & 7:30 PM
Wednesday, April 17 | 7:30 PM*	Sunday, April 21 | 5:00 PM
* Post-Performance Q&A ** Pre-Performance Family Experience Purchase together with your April 20 matinee tickets to receive a special family discount *** LINES Ballet Spring 2019 Gala

Witness the masterful melding of old and new as King and Võ investigate characteristics shared across communities, cultures and global traditions.

 

As artists, Alonzo King and Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ are kindred spirits — sharing a mastery of their traditional forms as well as a drive to continually experiment.

A master of the dan tranh zither, Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ is celebrated for her deep knowledge of traditional Vietnamese instruments and musical styles. At the same time, she is one of the only artists in the world fusing these traditions with entirely new sounds and musical ideas. The tones of her instrumentation mimic the vocal vibrations of voices both past and present — breathing new life into the rich culture and legacy of Vietnamese folk music.

Likewise, King creates works that draw on a diverse set of deeply rooted cultural traditions and extend the possibilities of creative expression in dance. Channeling the understanding that ballet is part art, part science, and part primal intuition, King’s choreography showcases art’s ability to connect us to each other and the world around us.

Both King and Võ are excited to explore notions of the homegrown, identity, modes of storytelling and cultural traditions — and how they shape us as both individuals and societies.

This performance will also feature a revival of Art Songs (2016), reimagined en pointe — set to soaring musical arias recorded by mezzo-soprano, Maya Lahyani.

 

This World Premiere with Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ is made possible by:
LSP Family Foundation
Grants For The Arts
The Bernard Osher Foundation

PROUD HOME SEASON SPONSOR:

Alonzo King LINES Ballet benefits from the support of Bank of the West / BNP Paribas Foundation for the development of its projects.

MEDIA SPONSOR:

 
Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Dancer: Madeline DeVries | Alex Farnum