Presented in collaboration with Lincoln Center Theater New York, you're invited to come and sing! Be part of a participatory public community choir series curated by Lincoln Center Visionary Artist Jeanine Tesori, one of the most prolific and honored theatrical composers in history. The March...
Presented in collaboration with the New York Philharmonic An evening of exploration into Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated investigates the revolutionary spirit and how political and social change manifests from the international to the local. This world premiere of a newly commissioned orchestration of...
Welcome to an intimate forum led by the musical legend and technological savant Nona Hendryx. Together, with a panel of creative minds and futurist spirits including Kate Freer, Mimi Lien, Miles Regis, and more to be announced, we'll explore the threshold spaces between analog craft...
Afro-Latin ensemble QUITAPENAS—one word, all caps; four syllables, all claps!—gives you a taste of their rhythmic contagion. Born under the warm California sun, these irresistible musicians celebrate the (almost) forgotten rhythms of Afro-Indigenous communities across Latin America. With call and response rhythms and pulsating beats...
Presented in collaboration with the New York Philharmonic Experts explore the economy of philanthropy and patronage in American culture, and how they shape the performing arts and cultural institutions. They will refer to The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith’s seminal text on economics and value, as well...
Performed in American Sign Language (ASL) by a full Deaf Broadway cast and accompanied by the original Broadway cast album, Jeanine Tesori’s Violet tells the story of a young woman’s quest for beauty amidst the image-obsessed landscape of the 1960s. Facially disfigured in a childhood accident, Violet...
Groundbreaking musician, producer, author, and revolutionary creative force Nona Hendryx leads an innovative salon featuring artistic luminaries working at the intersection of art, technology, and Black imagination. This immersive evening of performance and conversation centers ancestral wisdom alongside cutting-edge innovation, where the boundaries between human...
Black Girl Magic Ball, founded by Mahogany L. Browne, Lincoln Center's inaugural Poet-in-Residence, is an annual celebration honoring Black women and their allies who uplift the community through creativity, activism, and innovation. Its mission is to create an intergenerational nexus of joy and recognition and...
*Please note: This performance contains adult themes and strong language. Audience discretion is advised; this show is intended for ages 13+. Ntozake Shange’s enduring, epochal choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf celebrates its 50th anniversary with a reimagined musical treatment....
Led by Artistic Director Nadia Adame and Executive Director Danae Rees, AXIS Dance Company is one of the nation’s most acclaimed ensembles of disabled, non-disabled, D/deaf, and neurodiverse performers. AXIS was founded in 1987 and is based in Berkeley, California, where the company creates world-class...