LINES Ballet's 'Rasa' is beautiful but brutal

Choreographer Alonzo King has always been fascinated with the junctures of East and West, of classicism and romanticism and of masculine and feminine. "Rasa," the marquee work his LINES Ballet company performed at George Mason University's Center for the Arts on Friday, distills his aesthetic into 40 minutes of gasp-for-breath movement, music and visual effects. The score (mostly Indian, with sidetrips into other world music genres) is by Zakir Hussain, and the sets feature a textured bronze bac...