# Alonzo King Lines Ballet featuring Lisa Fischer at YBCA Theater, November 13, 2015

[Yerba Buena Center for the Arts](http://www.linesballet.org/performances/fall-home-season/) presents _the Propelled Heart_, Alonzo King Lines Ballet 2015 Fall Home Season featuring [Lisa Fischer](http://lisafischermusic.com/) and [JC Maillard](http://jcmaillard.com/)  
2015-11-13  
[Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater](http://ybca.org/)  
[701 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA .](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=701+Mission+Street,+San+Francisco,+CA+.&hl=en)  
8:00 PM, Friday, November 13, 2015

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## Set One

[8:11 PM lights down, announcements from Karim Baer]

01. [8:15 PM] _Dulcimer, Hang and Flute_
02. [8:19 PM] _the Enigma Loop_
03. [8:m PM] (the Company with Lisa Fischer)
04. [8:33 PM] _If I Lose_, part 1
05. [8:35 PM] _If I Lose_, part 2
06. [8:40 PM] _Flight_, part I
07. [8:44 PM] _How Can I Ease the Pain_  
[set ends 8:52 PM]

## Set Two

[9:14 PM lights down]

01. [9:15 PM] _Flight_, part 2
02. [9:19 PM] _Breath of Heaven_
03. [9:23 PM] _Come Sunday_
04. [9:27 PM] _Free My Soul_
05. [9:30 PM] _Rain Gong_
06. [9:32 PM] _Adagio_
07. [9:38 PM] _Comfort_
08. [9:42 PM] _We'll Never Turn Back_
09. [9:44 PM] _Comfort_, reprise  
[show ends 9:47 PM; applause and bows for a few minutes, then all off]


## Performers

* [Lisa Fischer](http://lisafischermusic.com/): vox;
* [JC Maillard](http://jcmaillard.com/): sazbass, keyboards, computer.

### Dancers

* Babatunji
* Robb Beresford
* Adji Cissoko
* Brett Conway
* Madeline DeVries
* Shuaib Elhassan
* Courtney Henry
* Yujin Kim
* Michael Montgomery
* Laura O'Malley
* Jeffrey Van Sciver
* Kara Wilkes

### Production credits

* Cody Chen: stage manager;
* Arturo Fernandez: ballet master;
* G. Chris Griffin: production and lighting director;
* Tara Kayton: company manager;
* Alonzo King: founder, choreographer;
* Alex Morgenthaler: lighting design;
* Joan Raymond: costumes;
* Robert Rosenwasser: founder, creative director;
* Meredith Webster: ballet master;
* Keely Weiman: kimono for Lisa Fischer

## Notes

Although Friday traffic is still snarled at the Hwy 13/24 interchange, once past that mess, we are free to zip on down to West Oakland, where a parking space appears to be waiting for us (despite the circling crowd), and with only a minute or three between trains, we arrive in SF in record time -- hardly more than 30 minutes after leaving the house. Boo-ya! In fact, we're so early that we stop in at the Grove on Mission off 3rd for a hot drink and a chocolate chip cookie. Nice to feel unrushed for a change!

Set break! The first half had plenty of surprises for me. First off, it appears to me that the current corps de dance is quite lithe and leggy. Second, much of the movement in this portion of the night seems either animalistic or spasmodically jerky -- so much so that I almost felt as if those lithe bodies were being wasted. Only in the final piece of the set did the dancers, working as mixed gender couples, offer us anything like the more traditionally graceful ballet lines that I expected. Here's hoping that we get a larger portion of that sort of movement in the second half of the program.

Second half? More of the same. Very hard to follow the track breaks. Thankfully, the last segment featured high energy: good music, great singing, and lots of twirling dance. _Come Sunday_ was rendered exquisitely as an unadorned solo for voice and a single dancer, who appeared to me to be communing with the spirit of grace that Lisa conjured with her voice. Darn good stuff!

Janice Berman posted a pretty thorough [review](https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/Alonzo-King-LINES-Ballet/Fischer-Adds-039-Heart-039-to-Alonzo-King-LINES-Ballet-Season-Opener) of last week's season-opening show on SFCV.

Likewise, Ann Murphy posted a [review](http://www.mercurynews.com/theater-dance/ci_29086230/review-lines-ballets-propelled-heart-masterfully-conjures-physical) for the Mercury News that offered insteresting information about the genesis of these pieces.

Finally, Jaime Robles posted a [blog piece](http://www.repeatperformances.org/preview.php?catid=4&id=628) about the show as well.

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