Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts – Mostly Mozart Festival

New York premiere of Empire Garden and Visitation.  Empire Garden and Visitation co-commissioned by Lincoln Center.  Part of the Lincoln Center 50 Years celebration. 

August 5 @ 6:15pm: Pre-concert discussion with Mark Morris and Ara Guzelimian in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse. 

New York premiere of Renard.

The New York Premiere of Acis and Galatea Behind-the-scenes photos and videos, interviews with designers, and more at acisandgalatea.org.

Ten years ago, on the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth, Lincoln Center commissioned Mark Morris’s Mozart Dances to premiere at the Mostly Mozart Festival. Hailed as a masterpiece and “one of Mr. Morris’s grandest achievements” (New York Times), Mozart Dances offers a visually stimulating, elegant, and often tender display of movement and technique. In the […]

“Indisputably the most musical choreographer alive” (New York Times), Mark Morris illuminates music by Monteverdi, Brahms, and Schubert with his kinetic, witty, poetic dancemaking. The program opens with two dances that reveal the intricacies of romantic love—1989’s buoyant Love Song Waltzes set to Brahms’s Liebeslieder-Walzer for voice and piano four hands, and 1996’s I Don’t […]

Mark Morris, the “Mozart of modern dance” (Washington Post), returns to the festival with a new dance work commissioned by Lincoln Center that illuminates the playful tapestry of sound of Satie's Sports et divertissements. Then comes the “remarkable fantasy” of Empire Garden (Times, U.K.), an exploration of Ives’s lyrical—and at times, whimsical—Piano Trio. The performance […]