Lines Ballet
Following a stunning premiere for the opening of the Monaco Dance Forum Festival in December 2009, LINES Ballet brings you Scheherazade—a timeless tale interpreted through Alonzo King’s uniquely artistic lens. With live music performed all season by tabla master, Zakir Hussain. Scheherazade is a re-envisioning of the ancient collection of Persian, Sanskrit, and Arabic stories of 1,001 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 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 Diaghilev’s spirit of cutting-edge artistic collaboration, immersing audiences in a luminescent and richly textured world.
Details:
Alonzo King's Lines Ballet presents "Scheherazade"
Thursday October 13th through Sunday, October 24th
Novellus Theater at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street
San Francisco CA 94103
(415) 978-2700
