Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival 2013

Get ready for details tomorrow on Lincoln Center’s fourth White Light Festival, coming this Fall.

Behind the Scenes: Rehearsals for “Monkey: Journey to the West”

Rehearsals for Lincoln Center Festival’s “Monkey: Journey to the West” are now underway!

Check out these behind the scenes footage from rehearsals in China! And visit our Facebook page for more videos.

First Lincoln Center Arts Teacher Award Presented

Lincoln Center Education has teamed up with the Department of Education’s “Big Apple Awards” to honor an art teacher for making a difference in the lives of his/her students and for going above and beyond in their role as an arts educator. The Lincoln Center Arts Teacher Award is one of 11 honors given as part of these new DOE sponsored awards. Each Big Apple Teacher Award winner was granted $3,500 for use by the teacher in the classroom.

The first Lincoln Center Arts Teacher was presented last week by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, and the first recipient is Melissa Salguero of PS 48 in the Bronx. She teaches students in grades K-5, and is being recognized for bringing music back into the school which has not has a music program in 50 years. Salguero created a group called SongCorps, which is designed to reach out to at-risk 4th grade boys through music in partnership with the local Hunts Point Alliance for Children.

Learn more about Lincoln Center Education and the Lincoln Center Arts Teacher Award

Pictured, left to right: Ann Unterberg, Chair, Lincoln Center Education; Dennis Walcott, Chancellor, New York City Department of Education; Melissa Salguero; New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg; Katherine Farley, Chair, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts)

Midsummer Night Swing at Ginny’s Supper Club tonight

Midsummer Night Swing kicks off in just over a week! Get in the spirit tonight at a pre-season event at Ginny’s Supper Club. Take a dance lesson and enjoy live music by the John Dokes Quintet, and DJ George Gee. The fun starts tonight at 7 p.m.

Sing for Hope Grand Finale on Sunday at Lincoln Center

The 88 Sing for Hope Pianos will come together for a finale concert event as the conclusion of the two week public art installation this Sunday, June 16. The celebration will include performances on the :08 of every hour kicking off at 12:08p.m. with a very special performance by the cast of the Broadway musical “Once.”

Join us at 12p.m. at Lincoln Center’s Josie Robertson Plaza to join in the festivities, including free yogurt from the project’s sponsor Chobani.

Midsummer Night Swing at 25: Kick off with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing Festival is celebrating its 25th year this summer, and kicks off in 10 days with a performance by Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. This beautiful big band will bring back the glory of ballrooms past.

Midsummer Night Swing
June 25
Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

(Photo: Frank Stewart)

Target Free Thursdays: Rite of the Butcher

Rite of the Butcher, created and performed by Ben Spatz with video design and mixing by Manuel de la Portilla, is a visceral fable about the power of fantasy, as told by the Butcher—refugee, criminal, shaman—through poetry, martial dance, and folk songs in an invented language. A fictional memoir, a parable, and a warning, this interdisciplinary monologue opens new doors for solo performance by combining abstract imagery with highly crafted physical and vocal performance to engage the bitingly contemporary themes of war and loss, violence and mourning.

Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 7:30pm
FREE
Target Free Thursdays
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center

Rite of the Butcher is produced by Urban Research Theater and presented in collaboration with LEIMAY-CAVE.