This Week at Lincoln Center: White Light Festival

Name: This Week at Lincoln Center: White Light Festival
Uploaded: 2014-10-02T06:33:19Z
Duration: P76S
Description: White Light Festival will include 30 performances. Among the opening week highlights: the U.S. premiere of Peter Sellars’ production of “St. Matthew Passion;” the NY premiere of "Chalk and Soot," performed by Dance Heginbotham and Brooklyn Rider; “Ecstatic Journeys,” Islamic and Sufi devotional music performed by the Pakistani ensemble Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali.

Clip: Season 2014 Episode 360 | 1m 16s

White Light Festival will include 30 performances. Among the opening week highlights: the U.S. premiere of Peter Sellars’ production of “St. Matthew Passion;” the NY premiere of "Chalk and Soot," performed by Dance Heginbotham and Brooklyn Rider; “Ecstatic Journeys,” Islamic and Sufi devotional music performed by the Pakistani ensemble Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali.

Aired: 10/01/14

Rating: NR

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NYC-ARTS is a local public television program presented by THIRTEEN PBS.

Major funding for NYC-ARTS is made possible by The Thea Petschek Iervolino Foundation, Jody and John Arnhold, The Lewis “Sonny” Turner Fund for Dance, The Ambrose Monell Foundation, Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown, Charles and Valerie Diker, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, The Elroy and Terry Krumholz Foundation, The Nancy Sidewater Foundation, and Ellen and James S. Marcus. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Additional funding provided by members of THIRTEEN. NYC-ARTS is made possible by Swann Auction Galleries.

This Week at Lincoln Center: White Light Festival

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