Ruth Leon recommends…Scheherazade – Alonzo King and Lines Ballet

Ruth Leon recommends…Scheherazade – Alonzo King and Lines Ballet

Ruth Leon recommends

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February 08, 2022

Scheherazade – Alonzo King and Lines Ballet
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This rather beautiful modern ballet is from the choreographer Alonzo King. His Scheherazade is a re-envisioning of the ancient collection of Persian, Sanskrit, and Arabic stories of 1,001 Nights.

The dancers of LINES Ballet, Alonzo King’s company, present a vision of the intimate transformative potential these stories possess. No music credit but vaguely based on Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov and others, less identifiable.

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