Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Spring 2025
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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.
World Premiere with Ambrose Akinmusire
Akinmusire has proved himself one of the most vital and deft trumpeters of his generation.
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, coming to understand the workings of his own mind and the mysteries of nature. Both of those terrains are boundless, and Akinmusire is determined to follow them as far afield as they lead.
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.
—The New York Times
This is subtly profound music, full of meditative focused beauty.
—Uncut
Scheherazade
The Paris-founded Les Ballets Russes’ 20-year blaze across Europe spawned masterpieces, caused riots, and set the future for Western theatrical dance. The modus operandi for this groundbreaking company was collaboration, They engaged the brightest luminaries redirecting 20th century art.
In 2009, Alonzo King was commissioned by the Monaco Dance Forum to create a modern version of the ballet Scheherazade to inaugurate the centenary of Les Ballets Russes.
For King’s version, Rimsky-Korsakov's thrilling score has been updated and reinterpreted by Grammy Award-winning musician/composer Zakir Hussain to include both Western and Eastern instruments—in addition to the violin, harp, and cello, the score incorporates traditional 5000-year-old instruments such as the rubab and nay, the Uzbek doira, and the Indian tabla.
World Premiere with Ambrose Akinmusire
Akinmusire has proved himself one of the most vital and deft trumpeters of his generation.
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, coming to understand the workings of his own mind and the mysteries of nature. Both of those terrains are boundless, and Akinmusire is determined to follow them as far afield as they lead.
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.
—The New York Times
This is subtly profound music, full of meditative focused beauty.
—Uncut
Scheherazade
The Paris-founded Les Ballets Russes’ 20-year blaze across Europe spawned masterpieces, caused riots, and set the future for Western theatrical dance. The modus operandi for this groundbreaking company was collaboration, They engaged the brightest luminaries redirecting 20th century art.
In 2009, Alonzo King was commissioned by the Monaco Dance Forum to create a modern version of the ballet Scheherazade to inaugurate the centenary of Les Ballets Russes.
For King’s version, Rimsky-Korsakov's thrilling score has been updated and reinterpreted by Grammy Award-winning musician/composer Zakir Hussain to include both Western and Eastern instruments—in addition to the violin, harp, and cello, the score incorporates traditional 5000-year-old instruments such as the rubab and nay, the Uzbek doira, and the Indian tabla.
About Alonzo King LINES Ballet:
Alonzo King LINES Ballet is a celebrated contemporary dance company that has been guided since 1982 by the unique artistic vision of Alonzo King. LINES Ballet has collaborated with noted composers, musicians and visual artists from around the world to create performances that alter the way we look at ballet today.
Forty-three years of outstanding, multi-disciplinary collaborations for the stage place the LINES Ballet company at the forefront of artistic innovation in ballet. With each collaboration, LINES Ballet investigates deeply rooted affinities between Western and Eastern classical forms, elemental materials, the natural world, and the human spirit. At LINES Ballet, the artistic investigation is infinite and essential for it leads to what unites us as human beings: empathy, joy, and the ability to transcend. LINES Ballet’s spring and fall home seasons and global tours share this vision of transformative, revelatory dance with 50,000+ audience members worldwide every year. The Company has been featured at venues such as the Venice Biennale, Monaco Dance Forum, Maison de la Dance de Lyon, the Edinburgh International Festival, Montpellier Danse, the Wolfsburg Festival, the Holland Dance Festival, and the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris.
Forty-three years of outstanding, multi-disciplinary collaborations for the stage place the LINES Ballet company at the forefront of artistic innovation in ballet. With each collaboration, LINES Ballet investigates deeply rooted affinities between Western and Eastern classical forms, elemental materials, the natural world, and the human spirit. At LINES Ballet, the artistic investigation is infinite and essential for it leads to what unites us as human beings: empathy, joy, and the ability to transcend. LINES Ballet’s spring and fall home seasons and global tours share this vision of transformative, revelatory dance with 50,000+ audience members worldwide every year. The Company has been featured at venues such as the Venice Biennale, Monaco Dance Forum, Maison de la Dance de Lyon, the Edinburgh International Festival, Montpellier Danse, the Wolfsburg Festival, the Holland Dance Festival, and the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris.
For more information, visit linesballet.org/lines-ballet-company/spring-2025/
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