The Lincoln Center Presents program is out and the first performance for this 2023 Fall season is this Thursday, September 7. The lineup provides boundary-blurring presentations in music, dance, visual art, comedy, spoken word, and multidisciplinary collaborations from around the world that build upon the eclectic mix of creativity found throughout New York City and beyond.
The first event of this season is the debut of José Soto’s album The Ancestral Call, exploring the disappearing culture of the Bribri people of Costa Rica. On September 8, 보바 Gays Take Lincoln Center! with an all-Asian, all-Queer comedy and variety show. Then, oud player Firas Andari presents a stunning program of maqam music from the Middle East, Egypt, Turkey, and North Africa.
From October 5 to 27, Festival of Firsts will take flight. The festival features artists embarking on new journeys and celebrating significant moments in their careers—premiere performances in the U.S. and NYC, Lincoln Center debuts, album debuts, fresh collaborations.
In November, the Latin Wave Festival brings their popular Latin Composers Showcase, FUTUROS, New Ideas in Composition, to the David Rubenstein Atrium for three nights. November 9, Electric Root presents The Sound of (Black) Music, a joyful interpretation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic. From November 16 to 18 choreographer Akram Khan will bring to Rose Theater The Jungle Book, retelling the story of the young girl Mowgli as a refugee child stranded by the cruel realities of climate change. Aficionados of classical arts won’t want to miss Les Arts Florissants’ spectacular production of Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen on November 2 and Philip Glass’s The Complete Piano Etudes on November 19.
From December 1 to 4, Unsound New York, the Krakow-based Unsound Festival, challenges the norms of contemporary composition with unique staging, unlikely instrumentation, and unbound passions with jazz, folk, electronic, experimental, and chamber music. During the same dates, Gimme Please at Clark Studio Theater will provide activities for kids, teens, and families to discover a love for the arts.
¡VAYA! is a Lincoln Center tradition at the David Rubenstein Atrium since 2015. It offers devotees of Latin music a friendly community, top-notch orchestras, a smoking-hot dance floor, and an ongoing cross-section of major names in the fields of salsa, Latin jazz, merengue, bachata, boogaloo. The first event of this series will kick off on September 29 with Son Del Monte’s performance.
The full lineup of Lincoln Center Presents is available at this link.
The majority of Lincoln Center Presents programs are free or Choose-What-You-Pay, in order to make provided performances more accessible to more people and to center equity and inclusion in every aspect of their field.
