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Feb. 13, 2008/FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: productionpr@ncarts.edu, Kathryn Pugh, 336-734-2924 NCSA features Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet in upcoming Winter Dance Feb. 21-24 at the Stevens Center
Winston Salem – NCSA will present Winter Dance featuring guest artist Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet in a one-weekend run beginning Feb. 21. Winter Dance will be performed at 8 p.m. Feb. 21-23 and at 2 p.m. Feb. 24 at the Stevens Center of North Carolina School of the Arts, 405 West Fourth St., Winston-Salem. Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for students and seniors. For more information or to order tickets, call the NCSA Box Office at (336) 721-1945 or visit www.ncarts.edu/performances. Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, an international touring company based in San Francisco, is the guest artist for this year’s Winter Dance. LINES company members will present an original work entitled “Rasa,” choreographed by King and premiered in the fall of 2007, and NCSA dancers will perform a new work created for them by King during his residency. The performance also includes George Balanchine’s “Rubies,” staged by Jerri Kumery, and a new work by NCSA contemporary dance faculty member Sean Sullivan.	LINES Ballet LINES Ballet
Alonzo King has created works that have entered the repertories of companies throughout the world, including the Royal Swedish Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet, Dance Theater of Harlem and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. He is recipient of numerous awards including the NEA Choreographer's Fellowship, the Irvine Fellowship in Dance, five Isadora Duncan Awards, the 2005 Bessie Award and being named a Master of African-American Choreography by the Kennedy Center in 2005. King founded Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet in 1982. George Balanchine’s “Rubies” premiered on April 13, 1967 as one act in his three act ballet “Jewels.” “Rubies”, set to Igor Stravinsky’s Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra, evokes America’s jazz age and uses “flexed feet, jutting hips, angular shapes, and non-stop movement.” Jerri Kumery, a Repetiteur for The George Balanchine Trust, danced with New York City Ballet from 1977 - 1987, under the direction of George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Peter Martins. Sean Sullivan performed as a soloist with the José Limón Dance Company from 1991-1996, and taught at the Limón Institute from 1993-1995. He was also a visiting lecturer at the University of Illinois from 1996-1998 teaching Modern Technique, Kinesiology, Composition and Limon/Humphrey Repertory. Sullivan joined NCSA’s contemporary dance faculty in 1998. The North Carolina School of the Arts was the first state-supported, residential performing arts school in the nation. Today, it is a leading conservatory of international renown, offering professional training for careers in the performing, visual, and moving image arts. ###
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Feb. 13, 2008/FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: productionpr@ncarts.edu, Kathryn Pugh, 336-734-2924

NCSA features Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet
in upcoming Winter Dance
Feb. 21-24 at the Stevens Center

Winston Salem – NCSA will present Winter Dance featuring guest artist Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet in a one-weekend run beginning Feb. 21.

Winter Dance will be performed at 8 p.m. Feb. 21-23 and at 2 p.m. Feb. 24 at the Stevens Center of North Carolina School of the Arts, 405 West Fourth St., Winston-Salem. Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for students and seniors. For more information or to order tickets, call the NCSA Box Office at (336) 721-1945 or visit www.ncarts.edu/performances.

Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, an international touring company based in San Francisco, is the guest artist for this year’s Winter Dance. LINES company members will present an original work entitled “Rasa,” choreographed by King and premiered in the fall of 2007, and NCSA dancers will perform a new work created for them by King during his residency. The performance also includes George Balanchine’s “Rubies,” staged by Jerri Kumery, and a new work by NCSA contemporary dance faculty member Sean Sullivan.

LINES Ballet

Alonzo King has created works that have entered the repertories of companies throughout the world, including the Royal Swedish Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet, Dance Theater of Harlem and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. He is recipient of numerous awards including the NEA Choreographer's Fellowship, the Irvine Fellowship in Dance, five Isadora Duncan Awards, the 2005 Bessie Award and being named a Master of African-American Choreography by the Kennedy Center in 2005. King founded Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet in 1982.

George Balanchine’s “Rubies” premiered on April 13, 1967 as one act in his three act ballet “Jewels.” “Rubies”, set to Igor Stravinsky’s Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra, evokes America’s jazz age and uses “flexed feet, jutting hips, angular shapes, and non-stop movement.” Jerri Kumery, a Repetiteur for The George Balanchine Trust, danced with New York City Ballet from 1977 - 1987, under the direction of George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Peter Martins.

Sean Sullivan performed as a soloist with the José Limón Dance Company from 1991-1996, and taught at the Limón Institute from 1993-1995. He was also a visiting lecturer at the University of Illinois from 1996-1998 teaching Modern Technique, Kinesiology, Composition and Limon/Humphrey Repertory. Sullivan joined NCSA’s contemporary dance faculty in 1998.

The North Carolina School of the Arts was the first state-supported, residential performing arts school in the nation. Today, it is a leading conservatory of international renown, offering professional training for careers in the performing, visual, and moving image arts.

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