ARTURO FERNANDEZ, Former 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 and teacher 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. Fernandez has taught master classes to Lyon Opera Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Paul Taylor Dance, Robert Moses' Kin, Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Westside Ballet Academy, Les Ballet Jazz de Montreal, and many schools and universities where LINES Ballet has toured. He has been a master teacher, choreographer and coach for LINES Ballet's Education Programs. Finally, he assisted Alonzo King in creating a new ballet for the San Francisco Ballet which premiered in 2018. At present he resides in Cathedral City with his husband and their dog Eddie and is an active member of the Task Force raising funding for the creation of the Palm Springs AIDS Memorial which will have its home in the park adjacent to the Palm Springs Art Museum.