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The breathtaking Lines Ballet of Alonzo King in The Steady Heart

By Jaime Robles, 25 May 2014
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Reviewed at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, San Francisco on 22 May 2014
Programme
The Radius of Convergence
Klang
Koto
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Alonzo King LINES Ballet
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Jaime Robles
Jaime Robles
Jaime Robles has previously written in the San Francisco Bay Area, including for the San Francisco Classical Voice. Also a poet, she has written song lyrics and librettos for several one-act operas, including Inferno (music by Peter Josheff), staged in 2009 by San Francisco Cabaret Opera, and Vladimir in Butterfly Country (music by Anne Callaway), staged in 2012.