LINES Ballet’s Spring Season features choreographer Alonzo King’s first-ever collaboration with American jazz trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire, who will perform live with the company, as well as King’s timeless work Scheherazade, which returns in full to the stage after over a decade.

Akinmusire has proved himself as one of the most vital and deft trumpeters of his generation. His music overflows with both beauty and rigor, profound personal feeling, and fiery virtuoso playing. Throughout his work, one hears an artist plumbing the depths of himself and the world around him. According to The New York Times, “…even in its simplicity, Akinmusire’s trumpet can feel almost dangerously tender.”

King’s Scheherazade re-envisions the ancient collection of Persian, Sanskrit, and Arabic stories of One Thousand and One Nights. The exquisite LINES dancers present the transformative potential these stories possess. The score, created by longtime LINES collaborator, the late Grammy Award-winning tabla master Zakir Hussain, reinterprets the original music by Rimsky-Korsakov, incorporating traditional Persian as well as Western instruments. Commissioned by the Monaco Dance Forum to inaugurate the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo’s Centenary, King’s Scheherazade immerses audiences in a luminescent and richly textured world.

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