2012 · Dance – stage work
Constellation
Alonzo King · Alonzo King LINES Ballet
An evening-length ballet by Alonzo King, set within an LED light installation by artist Jim Campbell, with a live mezzo-soprano singing Baroque and Romantic repertoire alongside an original electronic score.
- Premiere
- 2012-10
- Venue
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Lam Research Theater (LINES Ballet fall home season)
- Where
- San Francisco, CA
- Performances
- The Joyce Theater, New York, March 18-23, 2014; online stream (Act I from 2020-10-02, Act II from 2020-10-09); also toured internationally (e.g., Chaillot, Paris).
- Credits
- Choreography: Alonzo King. Original score composers: Ben Juodvalkis and Leslie Stuck; sound design: Christopher Barnett. Live vocals: mezzo-soprano Maya Lahyani (Handel, Vivaldi, Richard Strauss); piano: Hadley McCarroll (per DanceTabs). Light installation/visual design: Jim Campbell. Costumes: Robert Rosenwasser. Dancers (2012) included Meredith Webster, David Harvey, Michael Montgomery, Ricardo Zayas, Keelan Whitmore, Zachary Tang, Yujin Kim, Courtney Henry, Caroline Rocher.
Press
“Original score composers Ben Juodvalkis and Leslie Stuck with Sound Designer Christopher Barnett create a colorful tapestry of sound.”
“the music ranges from medieval (an amazing recording of the Russian Orthodox The Great Litany) to baroque, and classical to contemporary.”
“Constellation is accompanied by one such sonically eclectic stew.”
“Splattering steel drum arpeggios accompany the men.”
Elsewhere
- Constellation: Alonzo King Lines Ballet at the Joyce, 2014 — NYC Dance Stuff (blog), 2014-04-16
- Alonzo King: Lost in the Stars — San Francisco Classical Voice, 2012-10-21
- LINES Ballet – Constellation – San Francisco — DanceTabs, 2012-11-10
- Alonzo King's LINES Ballet's Constellation: Ballet in Bright Lights — California Literary Review, 2012-10
- Constellation — Numeridanse, 2012
- Constellation — videotanz.ru, 2013
- Alonzo King LINES Ballet (Joyce Theater, March 18–23, 2014) — TheaterMania, 2014-03
- Alonzo King LINES Ballet presents Constellation — Dancers' Group, 2020-10-07
More with Alonzo King LINES Ballet
- Azimuth 2013
- LINES New York tour 2013 2013