How many of us have hovered breathlessly over our iPads, watching grainy YouTube footage of Gelsey Kirkland and Mikhail Baryshnikov in Theme and Variations? Or Suzanne Farrell in Mozartiana? (Hundreds of thousands of us, to be exact.) Well, get ready: Yesterday, Lincoln Center announced its brand new Dance Week, a series of seven online broadcasts […]
As a founding member of the 1960s New York City–based dance collective Judson Dance Theater, Yvonne Rainer was one of the 20th century’s most innovative choreographers. But did you know that she had an equally remarkable career as a filmmaker from 1972 to 1996? Today through Thursday, the Film Society of Lincoln Center is featuring […]
Grab a partner and do-si-do (starting tonight at Lincoln Center with ABT) because a new study reveals that the neurological effects of social dances, like country dancing, the minuet or fandango, help to better protect our brains from aging, compared to other forms of exercise. Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and elsewhere looked […]
George Balanchine The first-ever hall of fame honoring performing artists and advocates will open at Lincoln Center in New York City next month. Legends at Lincoln Center: The Performing Arts Hall of Fame will recognize those who have contributed to the Center’s 60-year legacy. The first annual group of six inductees includes Broadway producer Harold […]
This Friday marks the 14-year anniversary of the horrific events of September 11, 2001. For the fifth year in a row, former Martha Graham dancer and choreographer Jacqulyn Buglisi revives her 2011 site-specific performance piece The Table of Silence Project 9/11. Working in collaboration with Italian artist Rossella Vasta, Buglisi summons more than a […]
2011’s tribute at Lincoln Center To commemorate the 12th anniversary of the September 11th attacks next Wednesday, choreographer Jacqulyn Buglisi and her Buglisi Dance Theatre will present the “Table of Silence Project 9/11” for the third time at Lincoln Center. The performance, which begins at 8:15 am and ends promptly at 8:46 am (precisely when […]