# LINES Ballet, featuring Charles Lloyd & Jason Moran at YBCA Theater, April 21, 2016

[Yerba Buena Center for the Arts](http://www.ybca.org/alonzo-king-lines-ballet-spring-2016) presents the [LINES Ballet](https://www.linesballet.org/) 2016 Spring Season, featuring a reprise of _[Shostakovich](https://www.linesballet.org/performances/repertoire/shostakovich/)_ and the World Premiere of _Sand_, with accompaniment by [Charles Lloyd](http://www.charleslloyd.com/) & [Jason Moran](http://www.jasonmoran.com/)  
2016-04-21  
[Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater](http://ybca.org/)  
[701 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-3138 USA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=701+Mission+Street,+San+Francisco,+CA+94103-3138+USA&hl=en)  
8:00 PM, Thursday, April 21, 2016

[[2016-04-20|Back to the previous event!]] ☸ [[:#section2016|Up to the 2016 yearbox!]] ☸ [[:2016#April_events|Up to the 2016 event list!]] ☸  [[2016-04-22|On to the next event!]]

## Set One: Shostakovich (reprised from the Fall 2014 season)

[8:07 PM lights down, announcements]

01. [8:08 PM] String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 (1960):  movement 2: Allegro molto; danced by the corps
02. [8:11 PM] String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68 (1944):  movement 2: _Recitative and Romance_: Adagio; danced by the corps
03. [8:23 PM] String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73 (1944):  movement 4: Adagio; danced by Babatunji, Adji Cissoko, Brett Conway, Courtney Henry, and Michael Montgomery
04. [8:27 PM] String Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp major, Op. 108 (1960):  movement 2: Lento; danced by Yuja Kim & Brett Conway
05. [8:33 PM] String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 (1960):  movement 4: Largo; danced by the corps  
[set ends 8:40 PM]

### Production Credits

* David Finn: lighting design;
* G. Chris Griffin: lighting;
* Alonzo King: choreographer;
* Joan Raymond: costume construction;
* Robert Rosenwasser: costume and set design;
* Dmitri Shostakovich: composer;
* musical recording/performers not identified.

## Set Two: Charles Lloyd & Jason Moran accompany the World Premiere performance of Sand

[9:04 PM lights down, waiting]

01. [9:04 PM] _Hagar's Lullaby_ (cl alto solo); danced by the corps
02. [9:11 PM] _Sand_ (jm solo); danced by Adji Cissoko & Jeffrey Van Sciver
03. [9:15 PM] _We Hum_; danced by Babatunji, Rob Beresford, and Shuaib Elhassan
04. [9:19 PM] _Dreams_; danced by the corps
05. [9:27 PM] _13-Letters_; danced by the corps
06. [9:33 PM] _Sand Rhythms_; danced by Madeline DeVries with the corps
07. [9:37 PM] _We Move_ (Parts 1 and 2); danced by the corps
08. [9:45 PM] _We Hum_ (Outro); danced by Babatunji & Laura O'Malley with the corps  
[set ends 9:47 PM; bows and applause for a few minutes, then all off]

### Production Credits

* Christopher Haas: set design;
* Alonzo King: choreographer;
* Axel Morgenthaler: lighting design;
* Joan Raymond: costume construction;
* Robert Rosenwasser: costume design.

## Performers

* [Charles Lloyd](http://www.charleslloyd.com/): alto saxophone (s2t01), tenor saxophone;
* [Jason Moran](http://www.jasonmoran.com/): piano.

### LINES Ballet corps

* 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

## Notes

First set tonight was darn good, but another ballet set to the music of Shostakovich String Quartets? My guess is that the two takes \([xref](2015:2015-10:2015-10-30)\) were conceptually similar but practically different. Without video, it's hard for me to compare the dances to each other, but the earlier show definitely earns an extra nod for employing a live string quartet instead of relying on pre-recorded accompaniment. Nonetheless, I found Alonzo's realization of the pieces as a dance work to be quite engaging -- Rand0m says "Go see it, you'll be glad you made the effort!"

And after a brief set break, Charles Lloyd and Jason Moran treated us to a really nice set of spacey jazz accompanied by some fine modern ballet. I would have been happier with a longer set of live tunes, but my guess is that the dancer's stamina is one of the more important constraints. I can live with that! In most instances an amuse-bouche is far better than a glutton's course!

A bunch of additional commentary from the creators of _Sand_ has been posted on the [LINES blog](https://blog.linesballet.org/2016/04/17/insight-from-our-spring-season-collaborators/) -- it's a good read! And that page leads to more goodies: a post-show [Q&A session](https://blog.linesballet.org/2016/05/03/spring-season-post-performance-qa-with-alonzo-charles-and-jason/) with Alonzo, Charles and Jason (from 4/24/16), video from a _Sand_ [rehearsal](https://blog.linesballet.org/2016/04/01/video-charles-lloyd-jason-moran-and-alonzo-king-lines-ballet/), and more...

Plenty of other reviewers have posted their thoughts about the show; a few that I've found are listed below.

* Randy McMullen, writing for the [Mercury News Arts Scene](http://blogs.mercurynews.com/entertainment/tag/lines-ballet/)
* Liam Passmore, writing for [7x7](http://www.7x7.com/culture/turning-sand-diamonds-alonzo-kings-lines-ballet-opens-tune-live-jazz)
* Toba Singer, writing for [Culture Vulture](http://culturevulture.net/dance/alonzo-king-lines-ballet-3/)
* Allan Ulrich, writing for [SFGate](http://www.sfgate.com/performance/article/King-s-Sand-at-Lines-Ballet-an-instant-7296067.php)

{{tag>music Charles_Lloyd Jason_Moran LINES_Ballet YBCA_Theater Alonzo_King}}

[[2016-04-20|Back to the previous event!]] ☸ [[:#section2016|Up to the 2016 yearbox!]] ☸ [[:2016#April_events|Up to the 2016 event list!]] ☸  [[2016-04-22|On to the next event!]]