Alonzo King (Choreographer, Artistic Director of LINES Ballet) has been commissioned to create works for the repertories of companies throughout the world including the Swedish Royal Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Dance Theater of Harlem, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Hong Kong Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theatre, and Washington Ballet. In 1982, Mr. King founded Alonzo King's LINES Ballet, which has developed into an international touring company.

In December 2006, Alonzo King was recognized as one of the fifty outstanding artists in America by the United States Artists organization. In the first year that these awards have been given, Alonzo King was one of only four Fellows in Dance, and the only Dance artist outside of New York to be honored by the USA Fellowship. The Fellowship is the second major national award Alonzo King has received in the past three years—in 2005, he won the Bessie Award for Choreographer/ Creator—and one of many such honors he has received over the course of his career. He holds two honorary doctorates, and is also the recipient of the NEA Choreographer's Fellowship, Irvine Fellowship in Dance, National Dance Project and the National Dance Residency Program, as well as five Isadora Duncan Awards and the 2007 Community Leadership Award from the San Francisco Foundation.