Upcoming Performances
Healdsburg Jazz Festival, CA : June 23, 2024
World Ballet Festival: June 15, 2024 in Spokane, WA & June 29, 2024 in San Diego, CA
Nashville Dance Festival, TN: July 19, 2024
Vail Dance Festival, CO: July 26- August 5, 2024
Ballet Festival “Unite” at the Joyce Theater, NY: August 13-18, 2024
Plié for the Arts International Dance Gala, Kingston Jamaica: August 24, 2024
Performances with Alonzo King LINES Ballet can be found here!
Adji in the Press
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In The Collective Agreement "She is many things — tall, tautly muscled, gifted at the unfurling movement quality King’s ballets depend on — but in “The Collective Agreement” she is also a kind of angel, seeming to beseech for cooperation among the other stage players, her hands shooting up and out in a prayer as partner Shuaib Elhassan spins her."
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In The Collective Agreement "As danced by Cissoko, this figure is more like a loving, worried deity. With the ballet re-costumed by Lines creative director Robert Rosenwasser in earth tones (rather than the original white and teal), Cissoko seems concerned for relations here on this earth, not in some other world."
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In Deep River "Adji Cissoko, who performs a solo and a series of duets on pointe with Shuaib Elhassan, is breathtaking in her combination of precision and delicacy. She can knock off a chain of perfect pirouettes and then bloom right into the next step, giving King’s run-on sentences more dramatic phrasing."
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In Deep River "Cissoko is the heart of the work, really. Early on, she reaches up to the light, collapses and rises again. In her duets with Elhassan, she continually folds over, jackknifed, but then stretches up on her toes, one leg and both arms elongating as much as possible toward the sky. It seems as if she’s yearning to lift off, to leave this world of woe behind, to transcend the illusion of existence."
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In AZOTH "Adji Cissoko in flowing gold and Michael Montgomery in plain brown shorts curl around each other in a long, sometimes edgy, sometimes romantic pas-de-deux seemingly exploring the many ways two human elements can intertwine and relate to each other. If lead, mercury, radiation, and magic can unite in choreography, it is ultimately evident that love is the source of gold."