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Dream Up, the BNP Paribas Foundation's international program for education through artistic practice is moving to San Francisco. Active in 26 countries, it follows today the educational project of dance of Alonzo King. The partnership between LINES Ballet and the BNP Paribas Foundation is 'vital', according to Alonzo King.
As adults we plan, calculate and order our actions, relationships and lives. Children, however, live in the moment. They live in a wonderful magical world. This is something Alonzo King understands, as he remembers it well. As a child he was amazed by the grace with which his mother moved around the family's apartment. "One day I realised that there were two different but coexisting universes; what adults told me and the way their bodies expressed it. That was when I decided to dedicate my life to studying the language of movement," he explains in the building currently occupied by his ballet company in San Francisco.
“ One day I realised that there were two different but coexisting universes; what adults told me and the way their bodies expressed it. That was when I decided to dedicate my life to studying the language of movement ”
Choreographer and creator of the LINES Ballet Company
This confidence in the body and in movement, the words of the body, will never leave Alonzo King. It lives within him, acting like an energy. It has pushed him to scale the heights of the world of dance, from the School of American Ballet in New York to Fisk University in Nashville. Above all, Alonzo has infused this energy into the LINES Ballet Company that he founded in 1982.
Discover what Dream Up does at the De Marillac Academy and Presidio Middle School in San Francisco, as well as the philosophy of dance according to Alonzo King.
Dream Up in San Francisco
LINES Ballet is a contemporary dance company created in 1982 by the famous choreographer Alonzo King. It has partnered with the BNP Paribas Foundation since 2010 and with Bank of the West since 2013.
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