Choreographer Alonzo King visits Governor’s School this week

World-renowned contemporary ballet choreographer Alonzo King will lead master classes and a free public presentation during a two-day artist residency this week at the S.C. Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities.

During his residency, King (bio) will lead master classes in dance, drama, and music with Governor’s School students and 30 strings students from Wade Hampton High School. King will also give a free public multi-media presentation about his work this Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Sakas Theatre at SCGSAH (15 University St., Greenville, register here).

King’s ground-breaking work has been featured in prominent ballets worldwide and has earned him inclusion on the list of America’s “Irreplaceable Dance Treasures” by the Dance Heritage Coalition in 2015. Founder of the internationally acclaimed LINES Ballet, he has been described as a choreographer with “astonishing originality” by the New York Times, and “a visionary choreographer, who is altering the way we look and think about movement.”

King has works in the repertories of the Royal Swedish Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet, Ballet Bejart, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Joffrey Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Hong Kong Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and many others.

The San Francisco-based choreographer is one of two guests in SCGSAH’s 2018-2019 Presidential Guest Artist Series—Connecting Lines: Dance Across the Arts.