Monday, June 8, 2026

This week at Summer for the City

Lincoln Center's Summer for the City
Lincoln Center's Summer for the City: Together, We Move.

Hello, Summer

Summer for the City kicks off this week with a full lineup of celebratory events! Join us at an opening night Swing Dance Party, cheer on a Freestyle Soccer Jam, and don't miss the Lincoln Center debut of dead prez. Plus, Big Umbrella Day returns this weekend, bringing an inclusive, all-day adventure to all ages. How will you ring in the start of your summer?

Get in the FAST TRACK line for free

Free Fast Track tickets give you priority entry to the majority of Summer for the City events at Hearst Plaza, The Dance Floor, the David Rubenstein Atrium, and other venues, until 10 minutes before showtime. Fast Track reservations open every Monday at noon for that week's events.

Wednesday, June 10

Kids, Teens, and Families

Music Storytime With Antonio Truyols

11:00 am and 1:00 pm, Karen and Richard LeFrak Lobby, David Geffen Hall
FREE: General Admission + Fast Track

Join us for a delightful Storytime from international pianist, composer and educator Antonio Truyols, who creates a place of healing and peace through music.

Accessibility: Relaxed Performance 

Rhapsody

4:30 pm, The Dance Floor
FREE: General Admission

Be surprised by a community dance work featuring a range of dancers who come together to create a funny and touching choreographic celebration.

Inayat: A Duet for Four

5:00 pm, Hearst Plaza
FREE: General Admission + Fast Track

This dance explosion merges two ancient North Indian performance traditions—Rajasthani folk music and classical Kathak—in a unique outdoor performance. 

Presented in collaboration with Jodhpur RIFF and Mehrangarh Museum Trust

Social Dance

Swing Dance Party

With Caleb Teicher & Company and Eyal Vilner Big Band

6:30 pm, The Dance Floor
FREE: General Admission + Fast Track

Swing over for an evening of high-energy swing dance with the Eyal Vilner Big Band and choreographer Caleb Teicher.

Silent Disco

GINJA: Featuring Ethan Tomas

10:00 pm, The Dance Floor
FREE: General Admission + Fast Track

Celebrate the first Silent Disco of the summer with a live set mixed by Ghanaian-American producer and GINJA DJ superstar Ethan Tomas.

Thursday, June 11

Inayat: A Duet for Four

5:00 pm, Hearst Plaza
FREE: General Admission + Fast Track

This dance explosion merges two ancient North Indian performance traditions—Rajasthani folk music and classical Kathak—in a unique outdoor performance. 

Presented in collaboration with Jodhpur RIFF and Mehrangarh Museum Trust

World at Play at Lincoln Center

Freestyle Soccer Jam

5:30 pm, The Dance Floor
FREE: General Admission

Experience gravity-defying and acrobatic soccer skills with the astonishing NYC freestyle performers.

dead prez

8:00 pm, The Dance Floor
FREE: General Admission + Fast Track

Influential Hip-Hop duo dead prez makes their Lincoln Center debut at Summer for the City.

Friday, June 12

Inayat: A Duet for Four

5:00 pm, Hearst Plaza
FREE: General Admission + Fast Track

This dance explosion merges two ancient North Indian performance traditions—Rajasthani folk music and classical Kathak—in a unique outdoor performance. 

Presented in collaboration with Jodhpur RIFF and Mehrangarh Museum Trust

Virtual Verbal Description Campus Exploration

5:30 pm, Virtual on Zoom
FREE: Registration required

Join us for a free virtual exploration of Lincoln Center’s campus, transformed for our annual summer festival. Designed for guests who are blind or have low vision.

Accessibility: Audio Description

Social Dance

Stud Country

6:30 pm, The Dance Floor
FREE: General Admission + Fast Track

Join the “Queer Church of Line Dance” to learn classic era hootin’ and hollerin’ line and partner dances.

Accessibility: ASL

France Rocks

7:30 pm, David Rubenstein Atrium
FREE: General Admission + Fast Track

France Rocks showcases musical voices from the Francophone diaspora, introducing new artists for U.S. premieres: Zohar and Adam, Herman Dune, and Almog Sharvit.

Glenn Branca’s Symphony No. 13 (Hallucination City) for 100 Guitars

7:30 pm, Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall
Choose-What-You-Pay

Experience one of modern music’s most intense sonic experiences as 100 electric guitar players perform the late composer Glenn Branca's Hallucination City.

You still have a chance to get tickets to this sold-out performance by joining the standby line at the box office before showtime. 

Silent Disco

Gorgeous Gorgeous

10:00 pm, The Dance Floor
FREE: General Admission + Fast Track

It's a Friday night Pride celebration Silent Disco with DJ Louie XIV and Gorgeous Gorgeous serving late-night, life-changing pop.

Saturday, June 13

Kids, Teens, and Families

Big Umbrella Day

11:00 am–6:15 pm, Full-campus experience
FREE: General Admission

Big Umbrella Festival welcomes neurodivergent audiences and their families to a day of inclusive, interactive events, including:

  • An immersive performance of Steve Reich’s The Four Sections by Paraorchestra
  • The Naughty Penguin, a fun puppet performance created by Spellbound Theatre
  • Salsa dancing for the Deaf or Hard of Hearing led by Silent Rhythms
  • Performances by Thingumajig Theatre’s roaming puppet duo The Flying Dodos

Accessibility: Relaxed Performance

Silent Disco

Sonic Unity Worldwide

8:30 pm, The Dance Floor
FREE: General Admission + Fast Track

Chicago-based Latine DJ collective Future Rootz shares transcontinental sounds in a Silent Disco set that will make you want to dance with joy.

Accessibility: Relaxed Performance, Haptic suits

Sunday, June 14

Lincoln Center Visionary Artist: Wynton Marsalis

Buhaina's Hot Seat: The Art Blakey Jazz Messengers

Trumpet Tradition Feat. Bruce Harris

6:00 pm, David Rubenstein Atrium
FREE: Fast Track + General Admission

Buhaina’s Hot Seat traces how the Jazz Messengers’ trumpet tradition shaped hard bop and influences today’s jazz landscape.

In collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center

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