Program areas at AKLB
Company - Alonzo King Lines Ballet is a san francisco based performing arts company consisting of 13 professional dancers from around the world. During fiscal year 2023, Lines Ballet performed 45 times in 21 cities and 3 countries. While on tour, in addition to performances, the company also provided workshops, demonstrations, and interviews. In april 2023, Lines Ballet premiered a new work, let not your heart be troubled, which featured vocals by lisa fischer and photography by richard misrach.
Dance center - for the sf/bay area, the Lines dance center, located at the corner of 7th and market street in san francisco, exists as a point of entre to experiencing the Alonzo King Lines Ballet community year-round. The Lines dance center provides space and is home to local choreographers, companies, and artists. The dance center provides over 55 high-caliber classes per week taught by the sf/bay area's best faculty. In the 2022-2023 fiscal year, the Lines dance center welcomed around 2600 students though its virtual, hybrid, and in-person classes, masterclasses, workshops, pop-up all you can dance days, and @Lines programs in various dance modalities.
Education -Alonzo King Lines Ballet offers training, performance opportunities, and scholarships for aspiring and pre-professional dancers. This includes the Lines bfa program; the Lines summer program, the Lines training program, with its sub-division Lines training ground, that has more flexibility; and Lines community programs. The Lines bfa program is a collaboration with the dominican university of ca and has a faculty composed of Alonzo King Lines Ballet company alumni and renowned guest artists. In the 2022-2023 academic year, the Lines bfa program enrolled 33 undergraduate students. In summer 2023, the Lines summer program for students ages 11-25 enrolled 204 students. The Lines training program, designed for pre-professional students aged 17-25 on the cusp of their careers, currently (continued on sch. O) serves 32 students. In the 22-23 academic year, Lines community programs provides arts programming, in collaboration with sf unified school district or sf parks and rec, served over 1250 students in grades pk-high school in over 18,000 contact hours, the majority in sf priority - equity neighborhoods.