Caleb Teicher<\/a> & Company and Eyal Vilner Big Band, who will headline a swing dance party on the Dance Floor on Josie Robertson Plaza; and KEIGWIN+ COMPANY\u2019s Rhapsody, the latest in its site-specific community dance works that will feature 30 professional and amateur dancers, all of whom are New Yorkers, also on the Dance Floor. \u201cRhapsody is a beautiful kick-off to this summer of dance,\u201d Borror says. \u201cThe idea for Rhapsody has been replicated in different public spaces, but each iteration is new, created specifically for the community and place where it\u2019s being performed.”<\/p>\nOne of the touchstones of Summer for the City\u2019s commitment to dance is the first Lincoln Center Contemporary Dance Festival. This twice-yearly festival (it will return in January) will transform Alice Tully Hall into a home for contemporary dance in New YorkCity. \u201cWe will present cutting-edge companies and new voices on campus to share a snapshot that shows where contemporary dance is today,\u201d Borror explains. \u201cWe\u2019re putting some elbow grease into Alice Tully Hall to make it accessible for dance. During the festival, it will be transformed into a world-class dance venue.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Over three weeks in June, the Lincoln Center Contemporary Dance Festival will host five international companies and choreographers alongside a trio of U.S.premieres at Alice Tully Hall, including Yinka Esi Graves\u2019 The Disappearing Act (June 20 and 21), which artfully illuminates flamenco\u2019s African roots. \u201cIt\u2019s a progressive take on the typical flamenco structure as well as the one piece that features live music\u2014it\u2019s a really interesting work,\u201d Borror notes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Also new is Dance Encounters, an outdoor series presented on Hearst Plaza that spotlights New York-based companies. \u201cThis is also a really exciting program,\u201d Borror says. \u201cThis series has more site-specific and site-responsive works in intimate and organic settings. You can come and be swept away by whatever you encounter\u2014which is how the series got its name.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the Dance Encounters commissions\u2014a new work by Vangeline, whose company, New York Butoh Institute, reflects its founder\u2019s Japanese influences\u2014is stirring particular excitement, Borror says. \u201cVangeline\u2019s new work will be for the Paul Milstein reflecting pool (which houses the famous Henry Moore sculpture, Reclining Figure), and she\u2019ll be wearing a costume by designer Machine Dazzle. This work exemplifies how we\u2019re looking to use the plaza by seeing its architecture through a new lens of artistic expression.\u201d<\/p>\n
Summer for the City will also feature the return of the programming that makes it the must-attend event at Lincoln Center, including the exciting Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center under the baton of Ren\u00e9e and Robert Belfer Music and Artistic Director Jonathon Heyward (David Geffen Hall, July 8 to August 8), which features several commissions and a world premiere. And, on the heels of Brazil Week and India Week from previous summers, there\u2019s Chinese Arts Week, which is highlighted by a North American premiere (July 22 to 29). Borror points out that \u201cthe big headline is that dance is center stage at Lincoln Center this summer, and we\u2019re excited to see it across all programs. The entire Summer for the City festival has a strong international focus, which is really exciting for us to have all of these things mixed together. We\u2019re dancing across borders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now in its fifth year, Summer for the City has quickly become one of the premier events in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-248078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}