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ALONZO KING LINES BALLET
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MAR 2013 NEWSLETTER
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Dear Friends,
Alonzo King LINES Ballet's 30th Anniversary Spring Season boasts a dream collaboration between visionary choreographer Alonzo King and venerated double bassist and composer Edgar Meyer. Hailed by The New Yorker as "...the most remarkable virtuoso in the relatively unchronicled history of his instrument," Meyer draws audiences from all music corners - including classical, bluegrass, newgrass and jazz, and was a 2013 Grammy Award recipient for Best Folk Album along with YoYo Ma.
Meyer and his musicians will perform live for every performance. So if you miss him at his sold-out SF Jazz performance this weekend, now is your chance to see him in person.
Alonzo King also welcomes Academy Award winner Jim Doyle, one of the world's leading creators of water feature designs. Doyle, along with lighting designer Axel Morgenthaler, will create a cascading wall of illuminated water to accompany King's work.
Capping off the anniversary program and 30 years of remarkable collaborations, LINES Ballet will perform a trilogy of excerpts from three decades of dance including the highly praised 1994 piece Ocean with recorded music by Pharoah Sanders and a commissioned score by El Hamideen.
Tickets are on sale now - and selling fast! To purchase: call, click, or run on down to the YBCA box office. Get your tickets now and be a part of an unforgettable 30th Anniversary Season.
Alonzo King LINES Ballet and Edgar Meyer's world premiere collaboration is made possible in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Bernard Osher Foundation, and the Lisa and John Pritzker Family Fund.
30th Anniversary Spring Season Sponsor:
Photo: RJ Muna. Dancers: Kara Wilkes & Yujin Kim.
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First Ever Facebook-Friend Friday
Opening Night, April 19
LINES Ballet extends a special invitation to our Facebook fans to join us on April 19, Opening Night of our 30th Anniversary Season, at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Purchase tickets to the performance; and then after watching the dancers on stage from afar, come meet them in person at an exclusive no-host party at B Restaurant & Bar, right next door to YBCA.
Friend us on Facebook (if you haven't already), and look for future postings on on this event. See you at the theater!
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Student Choreographers Showcase their Work
March 7 & 8
Join us for a remarkably captivating and diverse evening of work performed and choreographed by the artists of the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program. The evening will feature work by Bárbara Albequerque, Inês Carijó, Alex Carrington, Emily Cowling, Dominique McDougal, Marlys Norman, and Marissa Wong.
Student Choreography Showcase Performances:
Thursday, March 7, 7:30pm
KUNST-STOFF Arts
1 Grove Street
San Francisco
Friday, March 8, 6pm
Alonzo King LINES Dance Center
26 Seventh Street
Fifth floor, Studio 1
San Francisco
Tickets are $5 at the door. Don't miss it!
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Audition for the LINES Ballet Training Program
Auditions for 2013-14 LINES Ballet Training Program continue until May 1, 2013. Please contact Training Program Coordinator, Katie Wong, at (415) 863-3040 ext. 244 or email katie@linesballet.org to set up an appointed audition. Video auditions are also accepted. For more information, visit our website.
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30th Anniversary Gala Celebration
April 20, 2013
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Alonzo King, the LINES Ballet dancers and members of the LINES Ballet Board of Directors host a 30th Anniversary Gala Celebration, benefiting LINES Ballet's artistic and education programs.
Due to overwhelming response, tables at all levels are sold out. There are a limited number of $600 individual tickets available. Visit our Gala page for more information.
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LINES Ballet holds Company Audition in Chicago
Alonzo King LINES Ballet is looking for men of soloist and principal caliber with extensive partnering skills.
AUDITION:
MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2013
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Register at 12:30 PM
Registration fee $20
Hubbard Street Dance Center
1147 West Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60607
Please bring a headshot and resume.
Class will NOT be offered, so come prepared to dance.
Check our AUDITION page for more information.
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Spring Forward into a Studio for Rehearsal
$15 Fridays at the Dance Center
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We understand the financial pressures facing today's artists, and we want to provide support by offering artists a cost-effective way for them to keep creating. Beginning March 15, FRIDAY rehearsal space will be offered at the reduced rate of $15 per hour to all nonprofits and independent choreographers - all studios, all day, from our largest to our smallest!
Find out more about our studios, including the beautiful, newly crafted hardwood floor in Studio 6, on our website. Call (415) 863-3040 ext. 221 to book your rental.
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Jazz, Tap, or Bollywood-up your spring with one of these new workshops at the Dance Center:
Sundays, March 10 - April 28, 2013, 11am - 12pm
Saturdays, March 16 - May 4, 2013, 1:45 - 3 pm
Special Promotion: Refer a friend to one of the above workshops, and get a $10 credit towards future workshops and classes, if they enroll. See our website for a full list of workshops. As always, you can find our online schedule for open classes here. |
In Marin with the BFA Program
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On Valentine's Day, the BFA students paraded through downtown San Rafael as part of the global One Billion Rising movement to end violence against women and girls. Our junior class led Dominican University students and faculty in an energetic flash mob, a glimpse of which can be watched here. Our senior project performances are fast approaching! Last September our sixteen seniors were each tasked with choreographing an original work on their peers. They have been rehearsing for the past few months and have created quite a diverse collection of pieces. Join us for the premiere of the first round of senior projects on March 22 and 23 at Dominican University. The second round will be presented April 5 and 6. Please visit our website for details. Please join us in celebrating the Class of 2013 on Saturday, April 27, 2pm, at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, for their annual Senior Showcase. Tickets are available at ybca.org. $25 General Admission. $15 for students and individuals with Dominican ID (available through YBCA Box Office only).
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Summer Program Audition Tour Comes to a Close
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The Summer Program audition tour closed February with its largest audition ever in San Francisco, with 93 students in attendance. With February's auditions behind us, just one opportunity remains for those who are still looking to audition - on Saturday, March 16, in Philadelphia. This audition takes place at 5:30pm at Philadelphia Dance Theatre.
We would like to send a heartfelt thank you to all of the students who attended an audition on the road or sent a video audition for us to consider. We have witnessed an overwhelming amount of talent over the past two months, and look forward to the summer! As a reminder, audition results are sent within two weeks of the audition date; those who have not heard within three weeks should contact Program Administrator Emily Waenink. Accepted students can visit our Accepted Student Information page for up-to-date instructions and information about their summer at LINES Ballet.
Discovery Project in Atlanta
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The Discovery Project made a successful stop in Atlanta, GA, where we met about 90 young dancers over the course of the four-day workshop. We congratulate Matt Villanueva, age 15, on being awarded the full scholarship to attend Session One of the Summer Program! We look forward to working with him this summer.
March will be a busy month for the Discovery Project, as we host workshops in two new cities! Summer Program Director Tammy Cheney and faculty members Prince Credell and Carmen Rozestraten will be in Tucson, AZ from March 7-10, sharing LINES Ballet training philosophy at our host site Dancing in the Streets. The following week, faculty members Kara Davis, Arturo Fernandez, and Carmen Rozestraten will bring this workshop to Philadelphia, PA from March 14-17, hosted by Philadelphia Dance Theatre. Please visit our Current Discovery Projects page for more information!
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Alonzo King LINES Ballet
Celebrating 30 Years
26 Seventh Street
San Francisco, California 94103
P: 415.863.3040 F: 415.863.1180
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