LINES Ballet's collaboration with trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire was made for this moment

Also, catching up on SF Ballet's 2026 season announcement, Margaret Jenkins's engrossing "Wheel," and the illegal and reprehensible rescinding of NEA grants.

May 12, 2025

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Theo Duff-Grant in LINES Ballet’s “The Beauty of Dissolving Portraits.” Photo by Chris Hardy.

Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet just premiered a new work with Grammy-nominated trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire—one of King’s best. The run continues in San Francisco next weekend. I reviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle:

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