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2026-27 Series & Festivals

Encounter the arts through a curated series or festival, each thoughtfully crafted around a theme, artform, historical moment in time, or audience. Whether you return to a favorite legacy program or discover something entirely new, we hope you leave feeling inspired by the arts—with a fresh perspective and connection to the world around you.

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Lincoln Center Contemporary Dance Festival

This January, the Lincoln Center Contemporary Dance Festival returns to celebrate New York City-based choreographers presenting boundary-pushing works, including two New York premieres and two commissions by the Pasculano Collaborative for Contemporary Dance.

Legacies of San Juan Hill Festival

This year’s festival celebrates how community creates culture, exploring how the reciprocal influence of the diverse communities of San Juan Hill fostered extraordinary artistic innovation.

Featured Performances

Feel the power of live performance when you experience global contemporary artistry on our biggest stages, all for FREE or Choose-What-You-Pay!

Kids, Teens, and Families

A joyful and inclusive series of music, dance, storytelling, and hands-on creativity for young audiences and their families, with sensory-friendly and relaxed events throughout the season.

Lincoln Center Visionary Artist: Wynton Marsalis

Lincoln Center honors one extraordinary artist whose impact and vision embody the transformative power of the arts across disciplines.

Festival of Firsts

The fifth annual Festival of Firsts showcases performers boldly exploring new artistic territories. Experience this only-in-New York series of premiere performances, U.S. debuts, album debuts, and career milestone sets.

Unsound New York

The boundary-defying Unsound Festival returns to Lincoln Center with genre-blurring performances that reimagine sound through bold experimentation and global artistry.

American Songbook

The 2027 American Songbook season will once again be curated by Lincoln Center Artist-in-Residence Clint Ramos, a world-renowned, Tony Award-winning designer, creative director, and producer. More to be announced soon!

¡VAYA!

From salsa and charanga to Latin jazz, bachata, boogaloo, and more, ¡VAYA! is meant to make you move. Whether you're bopping your head or spinning around on the city's most exciting dance floor… ¡pa'lante!

Under the Radar at Lincoln Center

This January, Under the Radar returns with a signature selection of more than 25 new theatrical productions with performances across the city, including at Lincoln Center.

At the Atrium

All year long, the David Rubenstein Atrium is your home for FREE and groundbreaking music, theater, family shows, dance, comedy, and interactive experiences—highlighting the voices of local and international artists.

Big Umbrella Festival

From April 2–24, 2027, the celebrated festival returns for a multi-week series of performances, workshops, relaxed spaces, and interactive artistic experiences specifically welcoming neurodivergent audiences and their families.

Lincoln Center Immersive

Encompassing excitingly fresh augmented reality experiences, the Lincoln Center Immersive series invites participants to expand their perception of reality and space, offering creative work that serves as an entry point into a hidden realm.

The Art of Wellbeing

Art engages the mind, body, and spirit with guided meditations and movement-based lessons accompanied by live music. Designed and presented in collaboration with NewYork-Presbyterian.

Lincoln Center Moments

A free, welcoming performance series created for individuals with dementia and their caregivers, offering intimate artistic experiences in a supportive setting.

Passport to the Arts

A free and inclusive introduction to the performing arts, this series welcomes children, teens, and adults with disabilities and their families to experience concerts, workshops, and events across Lincoln Center.

Livestreams

Watch select Lincoln Center performances from anywhere with free livestreams all season long—complete with closed captions and on-demand access.

Young Artist Pipeline

A free training program for sixth and seventh graders, Young Artist Pipeline nurtures emerging talent through foundational arts education, creative exploration, and pathways to NYC’s screened arts high schools.

Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center

The Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center comes together each summer during Lincoln Center's Summer for the City to celebrate and share iconic works of classical music in dialogue with new and rediscovered music.

Ticketing Overview

To make the arts more accessible, all tickets for Lincoln Center Presents events are Free or Choose-What-You-Pay. Play your part by selecting the ticket value that’s right for you, knowing your contribution helps expand access for all. Please refer to the dedicated event page of the show you’d like to attend to confirm ticketing options.

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All tickets to select shows are available on a Choose-What-You-Pay basis. Select the ticket value that's right for you, knowing your contribution helps expand access for all.

Free General Admission Events

Many performances and events, including all programming at the David Rubenstein Atrium, are available for FREE via General Admission—first-come, first-served. Advance reservations are not required for these events; just show up! While we'll do our best to accommodate as many guests as possible, we cannot guarantee admission. Look for the “FREE” label on calendar listings and show pages, or select the “Free” calendar filter to search for a wide range of free programming.

Free Fast Track Option

All Lincoln Center Presents events at the David Rubenstein Atrium offer a Fast Track reservation option, giving priority entry into events. Reservations for Fast Track will open every Monday at noon for that week's events and can be reserved on this page. Please check the event's dedicated web page to confirm if Fast Track is available for the performance you'd like to attend.

3 Ways to Buy Tickets

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1. Book online from the event's dedicated web page.
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3. Book in-person at the Alice Tully Hall box office (Broadway and 66th Street) or the David Geffen Hall box office from Monday–Saturday 10:00 am–6:00 pm and Sunday noon–6:00 pm.

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The final work in this program, Exquisite Corpse, includes strobe lighting effects at approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds into the piece, lasting about 1 minute. For more information, please contact [email protected] or 212-875-5456.

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 productions that challenge perceptions and redefine dance and disability. Alongside its artistic programming, the company provides unparalleled integrated dance education and outreach programs that remove barriers and showcase the beauty of difference. With work by choreographers Nadia Adame, Sonya Delwaide, Christopher Unpezverde Nunez, Kayla Hamilton, and Natasha Adorlee, the performance will feature dancers JanpiStar, Julie Hasushi, Anna Gichan, Alaja Badalich, Hannah Westbrook, and Isaiah Newby.

This performance is a part of the Big Umbrella Festival, welcoming kids, teens, and adults for a series of multi-sensory, interactive, and engaging programming, designed with and for neurodiverse audiences.

Creative Team

Nadia Adame, AXIS Dance Company, Artistic Director and Choreographer, Welcome
Nadia Adame (she/her) is a Spanish multidisciplinary award-winning artist with a spinal cord injury. She studied Ballet and Flamenco at the Royal Dance Conservatory of Madrid and has a BA in Theatre from the University of Colorado. She was a company member with AXIS Dance Company (2000–2003) and Candoco Dance Company (2007–2008). In 2004, she co-founded and served as the Co-Artistic Director of Compañía Y, a multimedia and performance collective in Spain, with Mark Swetz,. Nadia’s credits include dance, theater, commercial, and independent film projects in the UK, Spain, US, and Canada. As a performer, she has been featured in works by Stephen Petronio, Bill T. Jones, Arthur Pita, Rafael Bonachela, Davis Robertson, Sonya Delwaide, Marc Brew, Chevi Muraday and Asun Noales, among others.

Natasha Adorlee, Choreographer, Exquisite Corps
Natasha Adorlee (she/her) is an Emmy Award-winning choreographer, filmmaker, composer, and creative leader based in San Francisco. Natasha began choreographing in 2016 while maintaining an award-winning performance career with ODC Dance, Kate Weare and Company, Robert Moses’ Kin, and the San Francisco Symphony. She attended SUNY Purchase and graduated from UC Berkeley. Natasha has been commissioned by Joffrey Ballet’s Winning Works, Kansas City Ballet, Nevada Ballet Theatre, Richmond Ballet, BalletX, Oklahoma City Ballet, Ceprodac in Mexico City, Kawaguchi Ballet in Japan, Ballare Carmel, Ballet22, Jacob’s Pillow, and Tulsa Ballet. Beyond the concert stage, she has created original work for Pixar Animation Studios, Oculus, National Geographic, The New Yorker, YouTube, and Cricket Wireless, bringing choreographic and movement-based thinking into cinematic, commercial, and technological environments. Her work has been recognized with an NEA Grant, a Dresher Fellowship, a Jacob’s Pillow Choreographic Fellowship, the 2024 Grand Prize at the Palm Desert Choreography Festival and Natasha received an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Performance.

Branden Wallace, Costume Designer, Electric Fish
Branden Wallace holds a BFA, MFA and a BS in Biochemistry. Branden has utilized their neurodivergence disabilities as a guide to different perspectives. Their practice is creating congruous work from the discord and discomfort of new information. A haptic harmony of cognitive dissonance. Branden is the recipient of the Disability. Dance. Artistry. Dance and Social Justice Fellowship in 2020 and 2023.

Joel Brown, Rehearsal Director, AXIS Dance Company
Joel Brown (he/him) is a paraplegic dancer and choreographer based between London and Salt Lake City, UT. He danced with AXIS Dance Company in Oakland, CA from 2012–2014 and Candoco Dance Company in London from 2015–2023. He co-created an award winning duet, One Hundred and Eleven, with Estonian dancer, Eve Mutso in 2019, which has toured across the UK, Tbilisi, Georgia, and India to great critical acclaim. He is currently studying for his MA in Choreography at the Central School of Ballet. He was commissioned to choreograph two works for third year students at Laban Conservatoire in 2022 and 2023, for which he also composed original music.

David Calhoun, Costume Designer, Exquisite Corps; Sewing, Electric Fish
David Calhoun (any/all pronouns) is a freelance dancer, teacher and costumer based in the Bay Area. In 2023, David picked up sewing as a hobby which quickly turned into a passion. They subsequently created their brand vipère, which explores contemporary activewear. Commissions include work for AXIS Dance Company, POST:Ballet, EIGHT/MOVES, dawsondancesf, LINES BFA, Fermata Ballet Collective, BODYSONNET, Ja'Moon Jones and Deb Slater Dance Theater.

Alfonso "Poncho" Castro, Composer, Electric Fish
Alfonso Castro is a Costa Rican multidisciplinary artist, composer, dancer, and choreographer whose work bridges music, movement, and performance. With over a decade of professional experience, his projects and collaborations have been presented throughout the United States and Latin America. Castro approaches his creative practice through an anthropological and ethnographic lens, exploring the body as a vessel of memory, identity, and cultural narrative, with particular attention to indigeneity and mestizaje. Working across disciplines, he creates collaborative and socially engaged artistic experiences. Castro is also an educator, curator, and arts administrator committed to fostering diversity, inclusion, and accessibility in the arts.

Sonya Delwade, Choreographer, Welcome
Sonya Delwaide (she/her) is a choreographer, teacher and performer whose reputation has flourished within the United States and Canada for nearly four decades. A native of Quebec and a graduate of York University in Toronto, she currently resides in the Bay Area where the critics have favorably noticed her work. She has been profiled in San Francisco Magazine, received a Bay Area Goldie Award (from the San Francisco Bay Guardian), was named in the San Francisco Chronicle’s 2001 Top 10 list was one of Dance Magazine’s Top 25 people to watch in 2002 and received two Isadora Duncan Awards for best ensemble performance and best revival. Ms. Delwaide has created more than 80 pieces for companies such as ODC Dance, Ottawa Ballet, Diblo Ballet, L'Ecole Supérieure des Grands Ballets Canadiens, Hubbard Street 2 (after winning their 2000 National Choreographic Competition), AXIS Dance Company, Berkeley Ballet Theater, Compagnie de Danse L'Astragale (for whom she was the artistic director from 1992 to 1999) and Ballet Austin after being a winner in the New American Talent competition. To describe her work, the San Francisco Express wrote: "she seems to epitomize a postmodern fusion of the Balanchine/Cunningham aesthetic with the punk expressiveness of the '80s-geometric clarity and a ruminating, personal, sexually prickly style.”. Ms. Delwaide has received awards from the Canada Council, Quebec and Ontario Arts’ Councils, Zellerbach Family Fund, Gerbode and Irvine Foundations. She was the recipient of the Zarlo award for excellence in teaching from Mills College, where she was Head of the Dance & Theater Studies department for five consecutive years. She has taught at the school of the National Ballet of Canada, Lles Grands Ballets Canadiens, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Mills and Hayward Colleges, CEGEP de Drummondville and has led master classes in Venezuela, China, Switzerland and Australia.

Kayla Hamilton, Choreographer, Right Here, Right Now
Kayla Hamilton (she/her) is a Texas-born, Bronx-based dancer, performance maker, educator, consultant and artistic director of Circle O—a cultural organization uplifting Black Disabled and other multiple marginalized creatives. Kayla was part of the Bessie award-winning ensemble Skeleton Architecture and has also danced with MBDance/Maria Bauman, Gesel Mason, and Sydnie L. Mosley/SLMDances. At its core, Kayla Hamilton’s choreography consistently challenges the way we come together. It’s conceptual in nature, striving to create a container for multiple body minds—from performers to audience members—to exist in space. Working from a disability aesthetic, Kayla invites performers to generate their own movement vocabulary rather than teaching them to move the way she would, opening up questions about hierarchy and to whom the the work belongs.

Walter Holden, Lighting Designer, Patterns
Walter Holden started working for AXIS Dance Company in 2000. After a few years working on other projects, he was thrilled to return in 2018. Walter graduated from CalArts with a MFA in Theatre (emphasis in lighting design) in 1994. His love of theater was born at Southeastern Oklahoma State University while earning his BA in theater. His passion for dance was discovered at CalArts. He has worked in all areas of lighting design including touring with Earth, Wind & Fire, Pantera, Kenny G, John Tesh and others, as well as designing theater at Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, and countless corporate events. These days he focuses on lighting dance and theater locally and has been fortunate enough to work with choreographers Christy Funsch, Randee Paufve, Nina Haft, Catherine Davalos, Dana Lawton, and Kate Mitchell. Walter also toured as Production Manager and Lighting Director for Capacitor and AXIS Dance Company. Walter runs his own company, Lumenography, and teaches Lighting for Dance at St. Mary’s College. Walter is blessed with the support of his wife, Alisa Rasera, and their amazing daughters, Iris and Viola.

Christopher "Unpezverde" Núñez, Choreographer, Electric Fish
As a visually impaired, Costa Rican-American choreographer of Miskito and Garifuna heritage, Christopher "Unpezverde" Núñez (he/him) creates evocative work on themes of disability, immigration, and indigeneity. His career includes a Bessie Award nomination and a spot on Art in America’s "New Talent" list. His work has been recognized and supported by numerous fellowships, grants and residencies, and presented by major institutions such as The Kitchen, Jacob's Pillow, Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, the Leslie-Lohman Museum, Princeton University, and The Joyce Theater.

Josue Villeda, Costume Designer, Exquisite Corps
Josue Villeda is a self-taught choreographer and costume designer born and raised in Guatemala and currently based in San Francisco, California. With a strong passion for design and construction, his work bridges movement and visual storytelling, creating costumes that support and deepen the emotional and physical language of performance. His recent costume design collaborations include work with Savannah Dunn for the dance film Silence (2025) and with Tracey Chan for Hypnagogs in the ODC Pilot Program (2025). Alongside these collaborations, he continues developing independent projects that explore the relationship between choreography, material, and embodiment, expanding his creative practice at the intersection of dance and design.

Michael Wall, Composer, Welcome; Right Here, Right Now, Exquisite Corps
Sound for Movement began as a platform nearly twenty years ago when founder Michael Wall noticed dance teachers spending their evenings searching through piles of CDs to find the right track for their classes, something with the right meter, tempo, feel, and without awkward lyrics. The vision was clear: create a website offering a wide range of music in various meters, tempos, and styles, all made specifically for dance teachers and creators. When mp3s became popular and could be linked to PayPal, Sound for Movement evolved through many versions to become the platform it is today.

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UPCOMING SHOWS

Thursday, September 17 at 7:30 pm

Friday, September 18 at 7:30 pm

Saturday, September 19 at 7:30 pm

Headlining performance by Britton & The Sting

Wednesday, September 23 at 7:30 pm

Legends - The Prince & D’Angelo Experience

Thursday, September 24 at 7:30 pm

With David Suzuki

Friday, September 25 at 7:30 pm

With David Suzuki

Saturday, September 26 at 11:00 am

Saturday, September 26 at 7:30 pm

Arcos do Choro

Sunday, September 27 at 7:30 pm

or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed

Monday, September 28 at 7:30 pm

or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed

Thursday, October 1 at 1:00 pm

Virtual on Zoom

Thursday, October 1 at 7:30 pm

Friday, October 2 at 5:00 pm

A Two-Day Program of Contemporary Portuguese Arts

Friday, October 2 at 6:00 pm

(A Show and Tell of Memories and Mementos)

Saturday, October 3 at 12:00 pm

A Two-Day Program of Contemporary Portuguese Arts

Saturday, October 3 at 2:30 pm

Featuring the Young People's Chorus of New York City and the Guangdong Experimental Choir

Tuesday, October 6 at 6:00 pm

Lincoln Center Presents In collaboration with NewYork-Presbyterian

Wednesday, October 7 at 7:30 pm

Thursday, October 8 at 7:30 pm

Friday, October 9 at 7:30 pm

Friday, October 9 at 7:30 pm

Mathis Picard

Saturday, October 10 at 11:00 am

Fun Forgotten Firsts from History with Mick Sullivan

Wednesday, October 14 - Multiple times

Created by Andrew Schneider

Wednesday, October 14 at 7:30 pm

Gender Trouble from Rome to Byzantium featuring performances by KINLAW

Wednesday, October 14 at 7:30 pm

A Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Bernice Johnson Reagon

Lincoln Center Presents
In collaboration with NewYork-Presbyterian