The art and culture of South India will be the centerpiece of the prestigious music festival held annually at the renowned Lincoln Center in New York. The 7th season of Lincoln Center’s ‘White Light Festival’ will open on October 16. Award-winning choreographer Mark Morris will curate a ten-part series on it. The international multidisciplinary festival will have 41 performances in 10 venues over the course of a month, by artists and companies from nine countries. The festival will open with the US premiere of Human Requiem, an intimate and unique theatrical choral event performed by German classical choir Rundfunkchor Berlin.

The White Light Festival at New York's Lincoln Center focussed this year on southern Indian arts and revived the Mark Morris dance, 'O Rangasayee'

"O Rangasayee", A Mark Morris dancing solo has been revived as part of Sounds of India, at Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival. Morris, a passionate admirer of Indian music and dance, is the curator of the series. The Mark Morris Dance Group is giving three performances two of which have Indian themes and “O Rangasayee” is definitely the highlight. 

As curator of “Sounds of India,” part of Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival, Mark Morris has invited a number of performing artists from South India to perform in New York; at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater of John Jay College, the Mark Morris Dance Group is alternating with the Kerala Kalamandalam Kathakali Troupe and Nrityagram. But all four pieces of his own program, which opened on Saturday night, show his talent’s marvelously irrational aspect.

Morris’s new piece uses the rhythm and gesture of Indian dance as its foundation

The eight events curated by choreographer Mark Morris for “Sounds of India,” part of Lincoln Center’s current White Light Festival, include three dance presentations that provide particular sights for the sounds on offer.