King is the recipient of numerous awards: an NEA choreographic fellowship, San Francisco Mayor's Award, and a Jacob's Pillow Creativity Award. His choreography is in the repertoire of Swedish Royal Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet, Ballet Bejart, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Joffrey Ballet, Alvin Ailey, Hong Kong Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theatre, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.
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LINES Ballet
In 1982, King founded LINES Ballet, which premiered at the San Francisco State's McKenna Theater. LINES currently performs a home season at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and maintains an extensive international touring schedule.
Selected works
2016: Art Songs, SAND
2015: The Propelled Heart, Biophony
2014: Shostakovich, The Steady Heart
2013: Concerto for Two Violins, Meyer
2012: AZIMUTH, Constellation
2011: Resin, Figures of Thought
2010: Writing Ground, Wheel in the Middle of the Field
2009: Scheherazade, Refraction, Dust and Light
2008: The Radius of Convergence, The Steady Articulation of Perseverance
2007: Rasa, Irregular Pearl, Long River, High Sky
2006: Sky Clad, Migration
2005: The Moroccan Project, Handel, Salt, Odd Fellow, Satoh
2004: Before the Blues, Rite of Spring, Baker Fix, Coleman Hawkins, The Patience of Aridity, Waiting for Petrichor
2003: Heart Song, Syzmanski's Vibraphone Quartet
2002: Road, Splash, Koto
2001: The People of the Forest, The Heart's Natural Inclination
2000: Following the Subtle Current Upstream, Soothing the Enemy, Riley, Tango, In to Get Out
1999: Shostokovich String Quartet
1998: Hovering Slightly Above Ground, Who Dressed You Like a Foreigner?, Tarab, Long Straight Line, Map, Land Forms
1997: String Trio, Suite Etta, Three Stops On the Way Home, Handel Trio
1996: Klang, Sacred Text, Handel Pas de Deux, Ground
