Arturo Fernandez

Ballet

Biography:

Arturo Fernandez, Ballet Master Emeritus at LINES Ballet, has been an integral part of LINES Dance Center as one of the teachers for the open classes. He started the first ever LINES Ballet Summer Program for pre-professional dancers and was instrumental in being the coordinator and instructor for the Alonzo King Professional Workshop. He has also been the coordinator for most of the LINES Ballet auditions and has set Alonzo’s choreography on companies and university worldwide including the Royal Swedish Ballet, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Washington University in St Louis, to name a few. Most recently, he assisted Alonzo King’s creation of a new work for the San Francisco Ballet which premiered in April of 2018. Fernandez has taught master classes to Lyon Opera Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Paul Taylor Dance, Robert Moses’ Kin, Ballet Trocadero de Monte Carlo, Westside Ballet Academy, Les Ballet Jazz de Montreal, and many schools and universities where LINES Ballet has toured. He is master teacher, choreographer and coach for LINES Ballet’s Education Programs.