"It was a project born out of pandemic necessity, 'when there were no more live performances and the company was asking big questions,' Cooper said. Rather than answers, the company ventured into Kingian territory as Cooper follows the dancers into the Arizona desert and the SFMOMA galleries. At a time when performers couldn't inhabit the same space as audiences, he captured the dancers in sumptuously cinematic settings interlaced with interviews offering insights into their inner lives."
"I told Alonzo, 'I don't want to document the choreographic process,' Cooper recalled. 'We want the film itself to be the dance. That was the premise creatively. You're taken on this cinematic dance odyssey into the heart, mind and soul of Alonzo King.'"
"LINES presents the evening-length work at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' Blue Shield Theater Sept. 18-21, while SFMOMA offers two Wattis Theater screenings of the companion documentary 'Origins' by director Drea Cooper."
Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet revisits Deep River during the company's 2025 Fall Season, an evening-length spiritually-infused work set to a recorded score by vocalist Lisa Fischer and pianist Jason Moran. Performances run Sept. 18–21 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' Blue Shield Theater. SFMOMA presents two Wattis Theater screenings of the companion documentary Origins by director Drea Cooper. The film originated during pandemic constraints and captures dancers in the Arizona desert and SFMOMA galleries. Cinematic footage is interlaced with interviews offering insights into the dancers' inner lives. Drea Cooper crafted the film to be a dance experience rather than a conventional rehearsal documentary.
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