One of the highlights of this summer’s Lincoln Center Festival is the presentation of Monkey: Journey to the West, a unique collaboration between Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett depicting a classic Chinese folktale. You can win a trip to NYC and tickets to see the opening night performance in July.
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(Illustration by Jamie Hewlett)
It’s nearly here…we announce the Lincoln Center Festival 2013 tomorrow morning. Stay tuned….
As we approach the end of 2012, several critics have considered Lincoln Center productions among the best of this year’s performances. Here are some highlights:
The New York Times:
The New Yorker:
WQXR:
(Cate Blanchett as Yelena and Richard Roxburgh as Uncle Vanya; Photo of Uncle Vanya by Lisa Tomasetti 2010)
In today’s Star-Ledger, dance critic Robert Johnson named the Paris Opera Ballet performances, which came to Lincoln Center Festival last summer, one of the year’s best dance experiences. Bravo!
(Photo of the Paris Opera Ballet’s Giselle by © Sébastien Mathé)
Lincoln Center remembers the legendary sitarist and iconic Indian music ambassador Ravi Shankar, who passed away yesterday at the age of 92. Ravi Shankar graced New York audiences at Lincoln Center for the first time in 1974 with long-time collaborator and friend Yehudi Menuhin, and performed again in a tribute concert to his friend at the 1996 Lincoln Center Festival.
(Photo by © Shochiku)
Nakamura Kanzaburo and his Kabuki company paid two visits to Lincoln Center Festival over the years, once in 2004 and again in 2007, and anyone fortunate enough to be in the audience for these shows will never forget them. We are saddened by the news of his passing.
“Nakamura was a versatile actor who ventured into various genres beyond the borders of traditional performing art,” wrote The Asahi Shimbun earlier today.
(Credit goes to © Christian Marclay. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York and White Cube, London. Photo: Todd-White Photography. Christian Marclay; Detail of The Clock, 2010; Single-channel video with sound; 24 hours.)
Earlier today, we talked to people waiting in line (some for up to four hours!) for Christian Marclay’s spectacular 24-hour work of video art The Clock at Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium. You only have one more day to check it out as part of this year’s Lincoln Center Festival if you haven’t already!
SPOTTED AT LINCOLN CENTER: Katie Holmes, Frances McDormand, Mary Tyler Moore, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Joel Cohen, Joel Grey and Wallace Shawn!
This past week, actresses Frances McDormand and Mary Tyler Moore, actors Joel Grey and Wallace Shawn and filmmaker Joel Coen came to the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center to check out Christian Marclay’s spectacular 24-hour work of video art The Clock.
And last night, actress Katie Holmes and dancer/actor Mikhail Baryshnikov came to see the Sydney Theater Company’s production of Uncle Vanya at New York City Center. Baryshnikov is also performing in Dmitry Krymov Laboratory’s sold-out production of In Paris, which begins next Wednesday at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater.
Of course, The Clock, Uncle Vanya and In Paris are all part of this year’s fabulous Lincoln Center Festival.
Acclaimed director Atom Egoyan talks about directing opera in general and his newest project, Feng Yi Ting, which is coming to the Gerald W. Lynch Theater tomorrow through Saturday for 7:30 p.m. performances as part of Lincoln Center Festival.
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