341K views · 20K reactions | It's all about lines! We love this snippet of choreography from Alonzo King LINES Ballet's Scheherazade. This wonderfully creative and mesmerising production is a re-envisioning of the ancient collection of Persian, Sanskrit, and Arabic stories of 1,001 Nights. Watch more https://www.marquee.tv/watch/linesballet-scheherazade - - - #dance #contemporarydance #ballet #arabiannights | Marquee TV | Facebook

Did you know... 🤔 It was Nijinsky's explosive and athletic performance of The Golden Slave in Fokine's Schéhérazade that captured the attention of Hungarian aristocrat and future wife Romola de Pulszky. Hugo Dumapit captured side stage by Davi Ramos | The Australian Ballet

Scheherazade Company: Media City Ballet Guest dancers: Arsen Serobian & Ellen Rosa Taylor Based on One Thousand and One Nights Music by Rimsky-Korsakov Libretto by Mikhail Fokin and Lev Bakst Choreography by Mikhail Fokin, Composed 1888 Fisrt time Performed 1888 The Sultana Zobeida engages in amorous pleasures with the Golden Slave. Suspecting that his wife is being unfaithful, Sultan Shayhryar decides to find out the truth and pretends to leave on a hunt. Scheherazade, also spelled Sheherazade,

2K views · 99 reactions | From one King to another ... Today on #MartinLutherKingDay we want to highlight this beautiful piece: Scheherezade by Alonzo King's LINES Ballet. Alonzo King's Scheherazade is a re-envisioning of the ancient collection of Persian, Sanskrit, and Arabic stories of 1,001 Nights. The exquisite dancers of LINES Ballet present a vision of the intimate transformative potential these stories possess. | Marquee TV | Facebook