VIRTUAL (ON)LINES SUMMER PROGRAM AUDITION
Eligible dancers ages 11–25 are invited to audition virtually for our 2025 Summer Program during the (ON)LINES Audition, led by two of our exceptional LINES faculty. It is the next best thing to auditioning in person!
Summer Program
Our Summer Program is designed for aspiring artists ages 11–25 and offers a unified approach to training. Rooted in the philosophy of Alonzo King, our programs guide students on a collaborative journey that values risk-taking, creative power, and independent thinking.
Required Materials for LINES Summer Program Auditioners
Please upload these items to the audition registration account in ACTIVE.
- Headshot | No larger than 5 MB
- Dance Resume | Training, School, Performance History
- Letter of Intent | Describing your artistic goals
- Video Link for all dancers* | 1–2 minutes of contemporary or improvisational movement
*Make sure all videos are set to public so we can view them.
Photography: Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Training Program; Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Summer Program | © Karah Abiog
LifeLINES WINTER INTENSIVE
LifeLINES | Winter Intensive 2024
An experience designed for the dedicated dancer
Dancers ages 14+ are invited to enliven their holiday season, and submerge into our transformative approach to training during this two-day winter intensive. They’ll work directly with LINES’ master teachers and guest artists through deep dives into movement exploration and dialogue. Tailored for both pre-professional and professional dancers ages 14+, our winter intensive will inspire and challenge.
Students applying for our renowned 2025 Summer Program or LINES Ballet’s BFA Program at Dominican University of California may also use LifeLINES Winter Intensive as their audition. It is included in their experience!
Curriculum
Ballet, LINES Ballet Repertoire, Movement Exploration, GYROKINESIS®, Contemporary, and Guest Artist Workshop
Bonus
For those attending Saturday, a free ticket to the Training Program Performance that night is included in your tuition. We strongly recommend you experience this evening of inspiring work and talented dancers!
Dress Code
There is no dress code, nor are there restrictions of color or style. However, one must wear tasteful, form-fitting dance or athletic wear and appropriate footwear (socks, ballet slippers) should be used for classes accordingly.
Required Materials for LINES Summer Program Auditioners
Please upload these items to the audition registration account in ACTIVE. Submit required materials for BFA separately to your Acceptd account.
- Headshot | No larger than 5 MB
- Dance Resume | Training, School, Performance History
- Letter of Intent | Describing your artistic goals
- Video Link for all dancers* | 1–2 minutes of contemporary or improvisational movement
*Make sure all videos are set to public so we can view them.
Application Process | BFA at Dominican
The BFA at Dominican application has two separate, mandatory parts to fulfill-the dance audition portion and academic portion. All requirements for the BFA can be found on the APPLY page.
Note: The academic application are open and accepted on a rolling basis. The artistic application deadline is April 1, 2025. Please submit required materials for BFA separately to your Acceptd account, and indicate if you are a BFA applicant on your registration for LifeLINES through Active.
Photography: Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Training Program
SAN FRANCISCO LINES DAY
LINES Day is a one-day workshop designed to expand the technical and artistic excellence of intermediate to pre-professional students ages 11–35. Get a sneak peek into the experience and process that makes Alonzo King LINES Ballet and education programs so transformative. Students will work directly with our LINES faculty, which includes former and current company members, and will be placed in appropriate groups for the classes according to age and/or level.
Students applying for our renowned 2025 Summer Program or LINES Ballet’s BFA Program at Dominican University of California may also use LINES Day as their audition. It is included in their experience!
Curriculum
Ballet, LINES Ballet Repertoire, Movement Exploration, and Contemporary
Dress Code
There is no dress code, nor are there restrictions of color or style. However, one must wear tasteful, form-fitting dance, or athletic wear and appropriate footwear (socks, ballet slippers) should be used for classes accordingly.
Required Materials for LINES Summer Program Auditioners
Please upload these items to the audition registration account in ACTIVE. Submit required materials for BFA separately to your Acceptd account.
- Headshot | No larger than 5 MB
- Dance Resume | Training, School, Performance History
- Letter of Intent | Describing your artistic goals
- Video Link for all dancers* | 1–2 minutes of contemporary or improvisational movement
*Make sure all videos are set to public so we can view them.
Application Process | BFA at Dominican
The BFA at Dominican application has two separate, mandatory parts to fulfill-the dance audition portion and academic portion. All requirements for the BFA can be found on the APPLY page.
Note: The academic application are open and accepted on a rolling basis. The artistic application deadline is April 1, 2025. Please submit required materials for BFA separately to your Acceptd account, and indicate if you are a BFA applicant on your registration for LifeLINES through Active.
Photography: Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Training Program
SAN FRANCISCO DANCE LAB FOR YOUTH AND TEENS
Dancers ages 11–17 are invited to come dance with us for the long holiday weekend during our Dance Lab for Youth and Teens. During this three-day intensive, students will experience the transformative approach that is an Alonzo King LINES Ballet education while working with former LINES Ballet company members and esteemed LINES faculty. Classes include ballet, LINES repertory, contemporary, floorwork, GYROKINESIS®, investigative improvisation, guided movement generation, and more.
Audition Opportunity
Dancers are invited to use this workshop intensive as an audition for our Summer Programs. It is included in their experience!
Required Materials for LINES Summer Program Auditioners
Please upload these items to the audition registration account in ACTIVE.
- Headshot | No larger than 5 MB
- Dance Resume | Training, School, Performance History
- Letter of Intent | Describing your artistic goals
- Video Link for all dancers* | 1–2 minutes of contemporary or improvisational movement
*Make sure all videos are set to public so we can view them.
Banner Photography: Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Discovery Project | © GoodLux Photography
SPRING SEASON PERFORMANCE
LINES Ballet’s 2025 Spring Season features choreographer Alonzo King’s first-ever collaboration with American jazz trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire—a spiritual seeker in the grand tradition of musical aspirationalists. Audiences will also have the opportunity to see King’s timeless work Scheherazade, which returns in full to the stage after over a decade.
Akinmusire has proved himself one of the most vital and deft trumpeters of his generation. “Every so often a trumpeter comes along who redraws the instrument’s role within jazz: Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Clifford Brown, Chet Baker, Wynton Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, etc. Ambrose Akinmusire has the potential to join that crowd,” wrote the All Music Guide. Akinmusire’s music overflows with both beauty and rigor, profound personal feeling, and fiery virtuoso playing. What one hears throughout his work is an artist plumbing the depths of himself and the world around him. According to The New York Times, “Ambrose Akinmusire has been making some of the most intimate spellbinding music of his career…even in its simplicity, Akinmusire’s trumpet can feel almost dangerously tender.”
Alonzo King’s Scheherazade is a re-envisioning of the ancient collection of Persian, Sanskrit, and Arabic stories of One Thousand and One Nights. The exquisite dancers of LINES Ballet present a vision of the intimate transformative potential these stories possess: the way that we are offered a chance to listen to a voice that can change our lives, the power of art to illuminate all the chambers of our hearts. The new score by Grammy Award-winning tabla master Zakir Hussain re-interprets the original music by Rimsky-Korsakov, incorporating traditional Persian as well as Western instruments. Commissioned by the Monaco Dance Forum to inaugurate the Centenary of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, Alonzo King LINES Ballet’s Scheherazade honors the company founder Serge Diaghilev’s spirit of cutting-edge artistic collaboration, immersing audiences in a luminescent and richly textured world.
To learn more, visit our Spring Season webpage.
Photography: Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Dancer: Adji Cissoko | © RJ Muna
SPRING SEASON PERFORMANCE
LINES Ballet’s 2025 Spring Season features choreographer Alonzo King’s first-ever collaboration with American jazz trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire—a spiritual seeker in the grand tradition of musical aspirationalists. Audiences will also have the opportunity to see King’s timeless work Scheherazade, which returns in full to the stage after over a decade.
Akinmusire has proved himself one of the most vital and deft trumpeters of his generation. “Every so often a trumpeter comes along who redraws the instrument’s role within jazz: Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Clifford Brown, Chet Baker, Wynton Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, etc. Ambrose Akinmusire has the potential to join that crowd,” wrote the All Music Guide. Akinmusire’s music overflows with both beauty and rigor, profound personal feeling, and fiery virtuoso playing. What one hears throughout his work is an artist plumbing the depths of himself and the world around him. According to The New York Times, “Ambrose Akinmusire has been making some of the most intimate spellbinding music of his career…even in its simplicity, Akinmusire’s trumpet can feel almost dangerously tender.”
Alonzo King’s Scheherazade is a re-envisioning of the ancient collection of Persian, Sanskrit, and Arabic stories of One Thousand and One Nights. The exquisite dancers of LINES Ballet present a vision of the intimate transformative potential these stories possess: the way that we are offered a chance to listen to a voice that can change our lives, the power of art to illuminate all the chambers of our hearts. The new score by Grammy Award-winning tabla master Zakir Hussain re-interprets the original music by Rimsky-Korsakov, incorporating traditional Persian as well as Western instruments. Commissioned by the Monaco Dance Forum to inaugurate the Centenary of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, Alonzo King LINES Ballet’s Scheherazade honors the company founder Serge Diaghilev’s spirit of cutting-edge artistic collaboration, immersing audiences in a luminescent and richly textured world.
To learn more, visit our Spring Season webpage.
Photography: Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Dancer: Amanda Smith | © RJ Muna
SPRING SEASON PERFORMANCE
LINES Ballet’s 2025 Spring Season features choreographer Alonzo King’s first-ever collaboration with American jazz trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire—a spiritual seeker in the grand tradition of musical aspirationalists. Audiences will also have the opportunity to see King’s timeless work Scheherazade, which returns in full to the stage after over a decade.
Akinmusire has proved himself one of the most vital and deft trumpeters of his generation. “Every so often a trumpeter comes along who redraws the instrument’s role within jazz: Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Clifford Brown, Chet Baker, Wynton Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, etc. Ambrose Akinmusire has the potential to join that crowd,” wrote the All Music Guide. Akinmusire’s music overflows with both beauty and rigor, profound personal feeling, and fiery virtuoso playing. What one hears throughout his work is an artist plumbing the depths of himself and the world around him. According to The New York Times, “Ambrose Akinmusire has been making some of the most intimate spellbinding music of his career…even in its simplicity, Akinmusire’s trumpet can feel almost dangerously tender.”
Alonzo King’s Scheherazade is a re-envisioning of the ancient collection of Persian, Sanskrit, and Arabic stories of One Thousand and One Nights. The exquisite dancers of LINES Ballet present a vision of the intimate transformative potential these stories possess: the way that we are offered a chance to listen to a voice that can change our lives, the power of art to illuminate all the chambers of our hearts. The new score by Grammy Award-winning tabla master Zakir Hussain re-interprets the original music by Rimsky-Korsakov, incorporating traditional Persian as well as Western instruments. Commissioned by the Monaco Dance Forum to inaugurate the Centenary of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, Alonzo King LINES Ballet’s Scheherazade honors the company founder Serge Diaghilev’s spirit of cutting-edge artistic collaboration, immersing audiences in a luminescent and richly textured world.
To learn more, visit our Spring Season webpage.
Photography: Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Dancer: Maël Amatoul | © RJ Muna
SPRING SEASON PERFORMANCE
LINES Ballet’s 2025 Spring Season features choreographer Alonzo King’s first-ever collaboration with American jazz trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire—a spiritual seeker in the grand tradition of musical aspirationalists. Audiences will also have the opportunity to see King’s timeless work Scheherazade, which returns in full to the stage after over a decade.
Akinmusire has proved himself one of the most vital and deft trumpeters of his generation. “Every so often a trumpeter comes along who redraws the instrument’s role within jazz: Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Clifford Brown, Chet Baker, Wynton Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, etc. Ambrose Akinmusire has the potential to join that crowd,” wrote the All Music Guide. Akinmusire’s music overflows with both beauty and rigor, profound personal feeling, and fiery virtuoso playing. What one hears throughout his work is an artist plumbing the depths of himself and the world around him. According to The New York Times, “Ambrose Akinmusire has been making some of the most intimate spellbinding music of his career…even in its simplicity, Akinmusire’s trumpet can feel almost dangerously tender.”
Alonzo King’s Scheherazade is a re-envisioning of the ancient collection of Persian, Sanskrit, and Arabic stories of One Thousand and One Nights. The exquisite dancers of LINES Ballet present a vision of the intimate transformative potential these stories possess: the way that we are offered a chance to listen to a voice that can change our lives, the power of art to illuminate all the chambers of our hearts. The new score by Grammy Award-winning tabla master Zakir Hussain re-interprets the original music by Rimsky-Korsakov, incorporating traditional Persian as well as Western instruments. Commissioned by the Monaco Dance Forum to inaugurate the Centenary of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, Alonzo King LINES Ballet’s Scheherazade honors the company founder Serge Diaghilev’s spirit of cutting-edge artistic collaboration, immersing audiences in a luminescent and richly textured world.
To learn more, visit our Spring Season webpage.
Photography: Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Dancer: Adji Cissoko | © RJ Muna
SPRING SEASON PERFORMANCE
LINES Ballet’s 2025 Spring Season features choreographer Alonzo King’s first-ever collaboration with American jazz trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire—a spiritual seeker in the grand tradition of musical aspirationalists. Audiences will also have the opportunity to see King’s timeless work Scheherazade, which returns in full to the stage after over a decade.
Akinmusire has proved himself one of the most vital and deft trumpeters of his generation. “Every so often a trumpeter comes along who redraws the instrument’s role within jazz: Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Clifford Brown, Chet Baker, Wynton Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, etc. Ambrose Akinmusire has the potential to join that crowd,” wrote the All Music Guide. Akinmusire’s music overflows with both beauty and rigor, profound personal feeling, and fiery virtuoso playing. What one hears throughout his work is an artist plumbing the depths of himself and the world around him. According to The New York Times, “Ambrose Akinmusire has been making some of the most intimate spellbinding music of his career…even in its simplicity, Akinmusire’s trumpet can feel almost dangerously tender.”
Alonzo King’s Scheherazade is a re-envisioning of the ancient collection of Persian, Sanskrit, and Arabic stories of One Thousand and One Nights. The exquisite dancers of LINES Ballet present a vision of the intimate transformative potential these stories possess: the way that we are offered a chance to listen to a voice that can change our lives, the power of art to illuminate all the chambers of our hearts. The new score by Grammy Award-winning tabla master Zakir Hussain re-interprets the original music by Rimsky-Korsakov, incorporating traditional Persian as well as Western instruments. Commissioned by the Monaco Dance Forum to inaugurate the Centenary of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, Alonzo King LINES Ballet’s Scheherazade honors the company founder Serge Diaghilev’s spirit of cutting-edge artistic collaboration, immersing audiences in a luminescent and richly textured world.
To learn more, visit our Spring Season webpage.
Photography: Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Dancer: Theo Duff-Grant | © RJ Muna
LINES BALLET GALA
Please join us for the LINES Ballet 2025 Gala!
Save the date for an exquisite evening brimming with dance, beauty, and enduring friendship. Enjoy a world premiere with American jazz trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire along with Alonzo King’s iconic ballet honoring the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Scheherazade—featuring music reinterpreted by Zakir Hussain.
Dinner Sponsorships
Multiple ticket and sponsorship packages are available. To reserve a Dinner Sponsorship, please contact Jonathan Neumann, Director of Development.
Terrace ticket purchases do not include the Gala Dinner. Instead, terrace ticket holders will enjoy a festive toast following the performance.
Proceeds from the 2025 Gala allow LINES Ballet to expand its impact with local and global audiences through the creation of new work, and support LINES Ballet’s transformative educational programs.
Photography: Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Dancer: Josh Francique and Ilaria Guerra | @ RJ Muna; Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Dancer: Caroline Rocher | © RJ Muna