Pharoah Sanders, the famed tenor saxophonist who played with John Coltrane's jazz ensemble in the 1960s, shares Alonzo King's philosophy that art can express a truth: something underneath the surface, something deeply held in the soul. "The spirit tells me what to do and that's it," Sanders says of creating music for LINES Ballet. For Alonzo King, "Dancers are musicians, and musicians are dancers - they're making music with their bodies."

FOR FALL TICKETS:
Order tickets by phone 415.978.2787 or online from the YBCA Box Office.

Groups of 10 or more and dual season subscribers save 20%. Order directly through LINES Ballet by calling 415.863.3040 x283 groups and x250 subscribers.

FALL PERFORMANCES:
Friday, October 17 at 8pm*
Saturday, October 18 at 8pm
Sunday, October 19 at 3pm**
Wednesday, October 22 at 8pm ***
Thursday, October 23 at 8pm****
Friday, October 24 at 8pm
Saturday, October 25 at 8pm
Sunday, October 26 at 3pm
* Opening Night Reception to thank donors of $500 or more
** Family Day at 2pm, Performance by the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Combo, Novellus Theater Plaza at YBCA
*** Post-performance conversation with Alonzo King
**** Post-performance conversation with the LINES Ballet dancers

Fall Ticket Prices: $65, $50, $35, $25, $15

Limited individual student tickets are available for Sunday, October 19 and Wednesday, October 22 performances. $15 upper terrace section only. Student identification required.

Novellus Theater at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Join LINES Ballet and emcee Liam Mayclem, Emmy award-winning host of KPIX's Eye on the Bay, as we kick off our highly-anticipated fall season with a sneak peek of performances.

Wednesday, September 17 from 6pm to 10pm:
6pm - VIP Private Champagne Reception hosted by Joie de Vivre's Chip Conley in honor of Alonzo King and dancers
7pm - Wine, Hors D'oeuvres and Silent Auction
8pm - Performances and Live Auction

SOMA Grand, 1160 Mission Street
(Mission & 7th Streets), San Francisco
$100/Includes VIP Private Champagne Reception
$75/Door
$65/Advance
Garage parking available on Mission Street

To purchase tickets go to http://linessomagrand.eventbrite.com
For more information contact Alexis Weiss at 415-863-3040 ext 250 or alexis@linesballet.org.

LINES Ballet is pleased to announce the appointment of Alexis L. Weiss as the organization's new Development Director, effective August 11, 2008.

As the organization's Development Director, Weiss will be responsible for strategizing, developing, managing, and implementing LINES Ballet's development goals. Weiss will also be responsible for spearheading LINES Ballet's fundraising galas and special events.

"Alexis Weiss is an exciting addition to LINES Ballet's leadership staff," said LINES Ballet's Executive Director Ann Marie Nemanich. "Her development experience, her fundraising successes and her love for the arts make her the perfect person to take LINES Ballet's development efforts to the next level."

Weiss brings extensive experience in development and a strong passion for the arts to LINES Ballet. Weiss comes to LINES Ballet from the Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley, where she served as Development Director and managed all contributed income for the organization. Her many major accomplishments at Marin Theatre Company include increasing the number of major donors by more than 36 percent and increasing by 50 percent the average foundation gift size that the organization received. Before her post at Marin Theatre, she served as the Development Director at the highly-respected Actor's Express Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, where she managed and secured all the organization's contributed income. Weiss holds a Master of Arts in Nonprofit Management.

The company just closed a sensational summer touring season in Jackson Hole, Italy - Venice Biennalle, France - Montpellier and Vaison Danse, Jacob's Pillow, Manchester and Guatemala. For Company dancer Keelan Whitmore Jacob's pillow was a very memorable experience.

"My Jacob's Pillow experience as a dancer was truly monumental to be in a place with so much history. All of us could feel the energy of those who had danced there before, which was inspiring for me and my colleagues. The performances were some of the most enjoyable and most powerful dancing I've ever been a part of. The students, teachers, and audience members were just as encouraging. Because of the intimacy of the theater itself, we could feel that the audience was really with us from the beginning to the end."

The critics agree with Keelan...

"In the case of Migration, which opened the program, ... there was so much to take in, so much beauty to absorb, so much color to appreciate, so much athletic grace to marvel over, that it was impossible to get it all in just one sitting." - Seth Rogovoy The Rogovoy Report

"'These dancers could cut diamonds' was the way Jacob's Pillow director Ella Baff introduced the dance of Alonzo King's LINES Ballet Company. No better description is needed." Allison Tracy The Berkshire Eagle

EARLY-BIRD ADVANCED BALLET 9:30am to 11:00am:
Monday's taught by Enrico Labayen
Wednesday's taught by Sandra Chinn
Friday's taught by Yannis Adoniou
*Tues and Thursday classes discontinued

PROFESSIONAL-LEVEL BALLET 11:00am to 12:30pm:
Monday through Friday (by invitation only, call for details)

Our A-List Roster of Teachers for Professional Level Ballet: Laura Bernasconi, LeeWei Chao, Stephane Dalle, Arturo Fernandez, Maurya Kerr, Shirin Keyani-Rose, Carmen Rozenstraten, Amy Seiwert

MORNING INTERMEDIATE BALLET, MODERN, AND HORTON will not be affected

Visit www.linesballet.org/sfdc to see who's teaching Professional Level Ballet on the day you want to attend.

The 2008 West Wave Dance Festival has a new vision: to showcase more than 45 Bay Area dance and digital media artists, presenting enlightening mixed programs that set genres like ballet, hula, kathak, and bomba alongside forms like aerial dance, dance theater, and integrated performance. The week-long festival of dance, now in its seventeenth year, also includes a significant new focus on film's connection to dance, as well as the premiere of a site-specific work by Joanna Haigood. Presented by Dancers' Group and DanceArt, WestWave takes place in partnership with Yerba Buena Center for Arts' triennial Bay Area Now festival, August 16-24, at YBCA.

Purchase tickets through the YBCA Box office at 415.978.2787 or online at www.ybca.org.

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