26 > 27 > 28 June, 8 p.m.

Teatro alle Tese – Arsenale

Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet (USA)

Irregular Pearl  [Italian premiere]

choreography Alonzo King

music Arcangelo Corelli, Georg Frederic Handel, Marin Marais, Augustin Dautrecort Sainte-Colombe, Domenico Scarlatti, Antonio Vivaldi  - execution Cynthia Roberts, Gonzalo Xavier Ruiz, Katherine Shao, Tanya Tomkins, Roy Whelden - costume designers Robert Rosenwasser, Colleen Quen

Rasa  [Italian premiere]

choreography Alonzo King

music and arrangement Zakir Hussain

execution Zakir Hussain, Kala Ramnath - sets and lighting Alain Lortie – costume designer Robert Rosenwasser – special thanks to Bernard Osher Foundation

cast Brett Conway, David Harvey, Ashley Jackson, Laurel Keen, Muriel Maffre, Caroline Rocher, Corey Scott-Gilbert, Meredith Webster, Keelan Whitmore, Ricardo Zayas – produced by Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet - in collaboration with Just in Time Art Management – special thanks to Fleishhacker Foundation

For over twenty years Afro-American choreographer Alonzo King has been committed to exploring the regeneration of the codes of academic and non-academic dancing with his company, Lines Ballet, founded with Robert Rosenwasser in 1982 in San Francisco, the heart of the Bay Area on the West coast of the United States, where it is still based. The coast that generated Isadora Duncan and Carolyn Carlson, both from California; Ruth Saint Denis and Ted Shawn, the pioneers of modern American dance, and Martha Graham’s teachers and choreographers for the silver screen; where Bella Lewitsky, who studied with Lester Horton, worked.

Trained at the School of American Ballet (NYCB) and the American Ballet Theatre School, Alonzo King danced in the Dance Theater of Harlem, in the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company, in the Harkness Youth Company, with Donald McKayle and with Lucas Hoving and Glen Tetley. Famous all over the world, many of Alonzo King’s works have become part of the repertory of the major international dance companies: Ballett Frankfurt, Joffrey Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Hong Kong Ballet, Dresden Ballet. The collaboration with artists and musicians from different cultures is an important element in the development of King and his company, who have worked with the legendary jazz musician Pharaoh Sanders, with the pride of Indian music Zakir Hussain – a member of John McLaughlin’s Shakti ensemble, with the Nubian oud master Hamza al Din, with celebrated Polish composer Pawel Szymanski and with electronic music composer Les Stuck, among others.