LINES performance of Biophony.
Photo credit: Quinn Wharton.
The human body is science, movement, and
music. Based on the Golden Mean, Sacred Geometry utilizes proportions, symbols and their
meanings applied in paintings and architecture;
examples are the Mona Lisa and the Cathedral
at Chartres.
There can be no art without science. It’s vital
to quiet the mind and experience; art speaks to
us on multiple levels. Bach is both mathematical and love drenched. It is the perfect balance
that we haven’t achieved. We have developed
technology to a place where we can instantly
destroy the planet and all its inhabitants, and
yet we haven’t developed our humanity to realize that we are all gems, plants, humans, animals, interlinked as one.
Alonzo King is the director of the international touring Company, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, housed in
San Francisco with the Alonzo King LINES Ballet
BFA at Dominican University of California, Training
SciArt in America June 2015
Program, Summer Program, and Dance Center. He is
the recipient of many prestigious awards, including
the first-ever Barney Choreographic Prize from White
Bird Dance in April 2013. In 2014, King was appointed
to the advisory council of the newly established Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University, and
in 2005 he was named a Master of Choreography by
the Kennedy Center. He was awarded the Green Honors Chair Professorship from Texas Christian University and holds honorary Doctorates from Dominican
University of California and California Institute of the
Arts.
Richard Blackford Interview
JF: What was it that made you first want to
collaborate with Bernie Krause?
RB: I heard a broadcast reading on BBC Radio
4 of his book and became fascinated with his
writing and the wild soundscapes that accom-
41