Alonzo King's LINES Ballet
By Ferda Mehmet, student intern of CHASS College Computing
 On
Friday April 11th, 2003, the UCR Cultural Events
and the Gluck
Fellows Program of the Arts presented the Alonzo
King’s LINES Ballet performance from 8-10pm
at the University Theatre. Choreographer Alonzo
King is a major presence in contemporary dance and
creates work for various Ballet performances such
as Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Ballet Frankfurt,
and the Joffrey Ballet. LINES Contemporary Ballet,
King’s own outstanding company, features dance
performers who are among the finest ballet has to
offer today. In collaboration with LINES’
extraordinary dancers, King has developed a personalized
dance language that is characterized by a vocabulary
based in classical ballet and is influenced by modern
and ethnic forms. The dancers are precise, expressive,
and charismatic. They are distinguished by their
technical brilliance, as well as their daringness
and generosity as performers.
In conjunction with UCR Cultural Events’ presentation of Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, the Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts sponsored an event called Conversation with the Choreographer on April 10th, one day prior to the actual performance, at the UCR California Museum of Photography at 7:30PM. This pre-performance talk was open to the public and designed to give the audience some background about the choreographer and the dances they were about to see. Moderator of the pre-performance talk Roxanne Fenton said, “The goal was to help the audience get more out of the performance and to make the process of attending the concert dance more familiar and comfortable.” |