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There are three ways to get tickets to Summer for the City at Lincoln Center, depending on the venue and the programming. Please refer to the dedicated event page of the show you’d like to attend to confirm ticketing options.

Free General Admission

For free events, over half the venue capacity is aways available for General Admission. Just show up; no tickets needed! Entry to most Summer for the City performances and events is available for FREE via General Admission—first-come, first-served. Learn more »

Free Fast Track

In addition to General Admission, we’re offering a FREE Fast Track option for the majority of Summer for the City events held at Damrosch Park, The Dance Floor, The Underground at Jaffe Drive, the David Rubenstein Atrium, and other select venues. Fast Track reservations are available every Monday at noon for that week's events!
• By booking Fast Track for events ahead of time, guests can access the Fast Track line at the venue which gives them priority entry to that event.
• While event admission is not guaranteed, Fast Track ticket holders will have priority over the General Admission line up until 10 minutes before show time (please note: show time for social dances on The Dance Floor is the start of the dance lesson). We recommend arriving an hour before show time to ensure entry into the event.
• Please check the event's dedicated web page to confirm if Fast Track is available for the performance you'd like to attend.
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Choose-What-You-Pay

All tickets to most mainstage indoor events are available on a Choose-What-You-Pay basis; day-of general admission will not be offered for these shows. All Choose-What-You-Pay events have a suggested ticket price of $35 and the option to pay more or less. There is a $5 per ticket minimum. Find Choose-What-You-Pay shows here »

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Call CenterCharge at 212-721-6500 from Monday–Friday 10:00 am–6:00 pm (EST).

Book in-person at the Alice Tully Hall box office (Broadway and 66th Street) or the David Geffen Hall Welcome Center from Monday–Saturday 10:00 am–6:00 pm and Sunday noon–6:00 pm.

Photo of Michaela Ellingson and Kashia Kancey (L to R) by Sean Elliot; courtesy of Connecticut College.

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David Dorfman Dance's truce songs is a wild and personal meditation on peace with self, others, and the world. Employing the company’s trademark style of merging highly athletic dancing with poignant emotion, this abstract work of movement art is devised dance-theater for all audiences. Dancing bodies serve as conduits for momentary peace as the company mines the depths of power-crazed existence looking for foibles and laughter, perhaps our most powerful tool of all. truce songs features visuals by Andrew Schneider, costumes by Naoko Nagata, and live music by Lizzy de Lise and Sam Crawford.

Program

Artist Biographies

David Dorfman Dance For almost 40 years, David Dorfman Dance (DDD) has created movement that seeks to de-stigmatize the notion of accessibility and interaction in post-modern dance by embracing audiences with visceral, meaningful dance, music and text. By sustaining a vision to create innovative, inclusive, performance that is radically humanistic, DDD maintains a core commitment to examine and unearth issues and ideas that enliven, incite, and excite audiences in dialogue about social change and a myriad of other topics. Dorfman’s mission is “to get the whole world dancing.” DDD has performed widely from Europe to Central Asia, Turkey to El Salvador and at major NYC venues including BAM, The Joyce,The Kitchen, Danspace Project, La MaMa, NYU Skirball, The Duke on 42nd Street, The Met Breuer and 92NY//Harkness Dance Festival. David, the company’s dancers, and artistic collaborators have been honored with eight NY Dance and Performance (Bessie) Awards. This is DDD’s fourth time at Lincoln Center: a mixed repertory program at the fountain; underground; and Prophets of Funk (to the music of Sly and The Family Stone), both at Damrosch Park.

David Dorfman (Choreographer and Dance Activist) (he/him), has been making movement-based dance theater since graduating with an MFA in Dance from Connecticut College in 1981. In 1987, he founded David Dorfman Dance in NYC with the intention of creating politically and socially relevant work. A life-long educator, David has been a professor at Connecticut College since 2004, where DDD is Company-in-Residence. David choreographed Broadway's “Indecent,” for which he was given a Lortel for its Off-Broadway run, and has also received a 2019 USA Fellowship in Dance, a Guggenheim, 4 NEA fellowships and a Bessie. DD’s early performing years were happily spent with Kei Takei’s Moving Earth and Susan Marshall & Co. In his copious spare time, he has co-created and toured internationally a body of tragi-comic physical theater with dear friend Dan Froot, entitled “Live Sax Acts”— and he continues to dance profusely with wife Lisa Race and son Samson Race Dorfman. He is thrilled to return to action at Lincoln Center.

Jack Blackmon (Performer) (they/he) was born and raised in the mountains that surround Lake Tahoe, where they received their early dance training. They went on to attend NYU Tisch School of the Arts before working for contemporary choreographers throughout New York City, including Sean Curran, Paul Singh, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Emily Schoen, Nicole Wolcott, among others. They have also toured their choreographic work to Austin Dance Festival, Dance Gallery Festival, WestFest Dance Festival, ChaShaMa Gallery, Arte e Vistas, and the Lake Tahoe Dance Festival. Their immersive theater credits include Punchdrunk NYC’s “Sleep No More,” Company XIV’s “Nutcracker Rouge,” and many nightlife spaces throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan. Jack is thrilled to be working with DDD.

Corinne Lohner (Performer) (they/them) is a performing artist and dancemaker based in Brooklyn, NY. They freelance as a performer with companies like Yin Yue Dance Company, David Dorfman Dance, Douglas Dunn + Dancers, and more. Currently, they are Pride Resident Artist with WADE alongside collaborator Maggie Joy and a Performance Project Fellow at University Settlement where they are currently exploring queer survival within cultism. Notable past credits include performing with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, choreographic commissions from Oquirrh West Project and InQUAD Dance, and a B.F.A. from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Lily Gelfand (Performer) Originally from Youngstown, Ohio, Lily Gelfand is a Brooklyn based dancer, cellist, and teaching artist. Lily received a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio in 2018. In addition to DDD, Lily has danced with Baye & Asa and Saxyn Dance Works. As a cellist, she has accompanied for dance at The Juilliard School and NYU Tisch as well as performing with Parsons Dance at The Joyce. She has collaborated and composed for/with Jasmine Hearn, Michael Wall, Christina Robson, and the Gibney Company, and has had the pleasure of live-scoring for NPR Radio Diaries. Her favorite color is green.

Kashia Kancey (Performer) is a Miami-born performer and choreographer, who earned her BFA in Dance from New World School of the Arts. She has been commissioned by Peter London Global Dance Company, and has had work presented in The Carnival Studio Theater at the Adrienne Arsht Center, Movement Research at Judson Church, Dixon Place and CreateART Performance. Kashia has performed in spaces like Perez Art Museum Miami, South-Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center, Dance Place DC, the American Dance Festival, The Yard, and New York Live Arts. She has danced with Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre, Adele Myers and Dancers, and Abby Z and the New Utility. Kashia was most recently an apprentice with Urban Bush Women and is a company member with David Dorfman Dance. She is based in Brooklyn, NY, and continues to pursue her career as a performer and choreographer.

Nik Owens (Performer) is from Los Angeles, CA and began his movement experience as a competitive gymnast. He began dance training his senior year of high school and continued at Wesleyan University, receiving a B.A. in Dance and a certificate in Environmental Studies. He studied under Nicholas Leichter, Tania Isaac, Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, The Dance Exchange, and others. He lived in NYC for 11 years where he was a company member/collaborator with and performed works by Raja Kelly/The Feath3r Theory, Bryn Cohn and Artists, Hélène Simoneau Danse, The Bang Group, Kayla Farrish-Decent Structures Arts, Dual Rivet, 10 Hairy Legs, Tiffany Mills Company, Kyle Marshall Choreography, and others. Currently, he collaborates, performs, and teaches with DDD. He has been afforded the opportunity to teach at institutions such as Wesleyan University, Gibney Dance Center, Rivertown Dance Academy, Dancewave, and others. Between 2021 – 2023, Nik was commissioned to choreograph and perform his 25-minute solo work, The Right Kind, at Rivertown Dance Academy, Wesleyan University, and Arts on Site. He choreographed for Rivertown Dance Academy and The Wooden Floor in California in 2018 (under DDD alongside Kendra Portier). He’s currently pursuing his MFA at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Lisa Race (Performer) performed, choreographed and taught in NYC for many years before moving in 2004 to Connecticut, where she is a Professor of Dance at Connecticut College. She danced with DDD from 1989-2000, having received a NY Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) in 1995 for her dancing with the company. She took a pause when her and Dorfman’s son was young before rejoining the company in 2013. While in NYC she also danced with Sara Pearson/Patrik Widrig & Co. and Ronald K. Brown. Under the guise of RaceDance, her choreography was seen at the former Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Dancenow and MR at the Judson Church. She has been fortunate to teach at Bates (ME) and ImPulsTanz (Vienna) Dance Festivals, as well as the American Dance Festival (NC) multiple times, and has given classes and workshops at many locations nationally and internationally. Race has collaborated with Shawn Hove on three dance films, which collectively have been screened at the Sans Souci Festival (CO), Dance For Reel, Light Moves Festival of Screendance (Ireland) and Motion State Arts (RI). She most recently collaborated with Hove and Rachel Boggia on a performance project at Connecticut College.

Claudia-Lynn Rightmire (Performer) is a multidisciplinary artist, creating within mediums of dance, writing, theater, and visual art. Claudia-Lynn holds an Honors summa cum laude BA from Roger Williams University, is a certified health coach, and is currently teaching at Gibney Dance. Claudia is an artist with David Dorfman Dance, Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre, and INSPIRIT Dance with Christal Brown, and has worked with NYC Children’s Theater, Third Rail Projects, Kinesis Project, Sarasota Contemporary, and Moving Ethos. She has been a guest artist and educator at many institutions, nationally and internationally. In 2021, she formed cs movement projects, a performance art company, alongside her partner, Simon Thomas-Train. She is driven by storytelling, voice, shadow, and being a new parent.

Tarythe Albrecht (Stage Manager) graduated from the University of Maryland, summa cum laude in 2010. Since then she has spent her time freelancing in DC (stage managing both in the performing arts and corporate worlds) and trying to keep up with her 12-year-old and twin 4-year-olds (all boys!). Select stage management credits: Lounge Regime: 100 Years of Ambient Music and Of Land and Sea (Kennedy Center); Foolish Fairytales (Faction of Fools); Zaubernacht and Mahagonny: Songspiel at UMD's Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, where she has also done Noises Off and many, many dance shows. Tarythe has also worked for Project ChArma, Orange Grove Dance, UpRooted Dance, Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Maida Withers, Howard Community College, Happenstance Theatre, and Round House Theatre, among others.

Sam Crawford (Composer/Musician) completed degrees in English and Audio Engineering at Indiana University in 2003. His compositions and sound designs have included works for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company (Venice Biennale, 2010), A.I.M by Kyle Abraham (Untitled Love, 2022), Camille A. Brown and Dancers (BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play, 2016), and David Dorfman Dance (Aroundtown, 2017). La Medea, a live film collaboration with director Yara Travieso for which he composed the music and wrote the libretto, premiered at P.S.122’s Coil Festival in 2017. Crawford is a lecturer in sound design at the University of Maryland's School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies.

Peter Leibold VI (Associate Lighting and Visual Designer and Supervisor) is a lighting and projection designer based in New York City. Peter has worked across the country at theatres including The Kennedy Center, Signature Theatre, Ford’s Theatre Society, Sierra Repertory Theatre, Andy’s Summer Playhouse, The Spoleto Festival, and many more. Peter won the New Hampshire Theatre Alliance award for Best Lighting for his work with Orange Grove Dance at Andy’s Summer Playhouse and was a finalist for Live Design’s Design Achievement Awards, also for his work with Orange Grove Dance. See more of his work at www.peterleibold.com

Lizzy de Lise (Composer/Musician) is an interdisciplinary, gender queer artist who plays with otherworldly textures and tones to invite, envelope, and transport. They compose / perform music for dance, theater, podcast, and film. Lizzy’s work has been featured on NPR’s Invisibilia, at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn, and on PBS. Their Philadelphia-based band, Lizdelise, released their next record Sept 2023 on Sheer Luck Records. Lizzy currently performs with: David Dorfman Dance; Canadian indie band, Housewife; and Yara Travieso.

Naoko Nagata (Costume Designer) was born and raised in Kobe Japan. She worked as a biochemist before moving to New York in 1991. Since then with no formal training, she has been creating costumes for award-winning choreographers and dancers non-stop (Urban Bush Women, Kyle Abraham, Doug Elkins, Ralph Lemon, amongst many others). Her work with Co-Designer Enver Chakartash for Reggie Wilsons/Fist & Heel’s POWER has been placed in the permanent collection of Jacob’s Pillow. Most recently Naoko and Enver co-designed costumes for Raja Feather Kelly’s play FIRES. She also has just completed costumes for Ralph Lemon’s Ceremonies Out of the Air. Naoko first started creating costumes for David Dorfman in 1998 with In the Company of Men and designed and constructed costumes for DDD’s Subverse, To Lie Tenderly, Seven Deadly Sins (Sloth), SEE LEVEL, Impending Joy and Older Testaments. Naoko enjoys working closely with collaborators and is excited to be working with David Dorfman Dance again on truce songs.

Andrew Schneider (Visual Designer) is mostly interested in how humans telling stories about ourselves to each other can make us better at being humans. And how much the second law of thermodynamics and grief have in common. He is an OBIE award-winning, Drama Desk nominated performer, writer, and interactive-electronics artist creating original works for theater, dance, sound, video, and installation since 2003. Original work includes: »remains« (2020 - Sasha Waltz & Guests commission); AFTER (2018 – Under the Radar, The Public Theater); YOUARENOWHERE (2015 OBIE award, 2016 Drama Desk nom); among others. Upcoming: time-based immersive light / sound installation dealing with grief, loss, and presentness, “N O W I S W H E N W E A R E” (2023 anticipated). www.andrewjs.com

Program Notes

A note from David:

A truce is loosely defined as an agreement to pause a dispute for a moment.

Maybe two? Longer? Forever? Throughout the multi-year process of creating our dance, the slipperiness of truce has revealed itself. truce, as a concept, should serve as a beacon of hope, but does it any longer? In trying to answer this question, we decided to make some dances and songs about it. In fact, I think this is our truce. When was the last time you made one? Was it with yourself? Another?

I have a proposal - let’s be compassionately tactile with our skin and fervently elastic with our minds.

Welcome - glad you are here.

- DD

Special thanks to Shanta Thake, Jon Nakagawa, Paloma Estevez, Roshni Lavelle, Skye Pagon, Madison Nophsker, Elijah Crenshaw-Smith, Wing Louie, Yvanna Tassy, Courtney Banks, Emily Mills, Ellery Brown, Jen Augello, Michelle Tabnick, and the entire staff at Summer for the City and Lincoln Center for welcoming us.

In addition, we extend thanks to the following for their guidance and love: Owen Burnham, Babs Case, Ethan Chin, Rodney Dumond, Joanna Futral, Sandy Garcia, Shawn Hove, Maura Keefe, Dan Froot and Victoria Marks, Joseph Matovic, Celeste Myers, Josh Paquette, Rob Richter, Mitchell Rose, Bruce Valenti, our donors and Board of Directors and our Interns Extraordinaire: Thy-Lan Alcalay, Mohammed “Moqu” Alquadah, Paulina Bartholomew, Mia Bernstein, Alyssa Bodmer, Cat Evans, Melle Lowenthal, Julia Ramirez, Emily Brankman, Mia Penasa, Jack Twining, and Andrew Solomon.

This performance is dedicated to Nik Owens and Kashia Kancey, who are both starting new journeys, and who have given incredible years to not only “truce songs,” but many DDD projects with unending love, joy, expertise, and care. We cannot wait to see where your endless talents take you! - DD

And again, thanks forever to Erin Roy and Journee Hardaway for all your stupendous work over the years!

This work was commissioned by Dancers’ Workshop in Jackson Hole, WY. Additional funding provided by Connecticut College, Harkness Foundation for Dance, New Music USA’s Organization Fund in 2024-25, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and New York State Council on the Arts. In addition, the work was researched and created in residence at American Dance Festival, Barnard College, Lehigh Valley Charter School for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, NC State University, LEAP of New Haven, NYU Tisch Summer Residency Program, Rhode Island College, San Jose State University, The Maya Brin Institute for New Performance at the University of Maryland, The Neltje Center for Excellence and Creativity in the Arts, and the University of Wyoming.

Artistic Director: David Dorfman

Interim Executive Director: Andrea Salvatore

Company Manager: Corinne Lohner

Bookkeeping: Quant Solutions

Touring Consultant: Harold Norris H – Art Management, [email protected]

Consider making a tax-deductible donation to DDD (checks payable to “Art Sweats, Inc.” at PO Box 1227 Peter Stuyvesant Station NY, NY 10009) or online at daviddorfmandance.org.

Follow DDD on Facebook @DavidDorfmanDancePage and on Instagram @dorfmandance.

Share your experience of truce songs by emailing [email protected].

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Featured Artists

Performer, Choreographer

David Dorfman

Performer

Jack Blackmon

Performer

Lily Gelfand

Performer

Kashia Kancey

Performer

Nik Owens

Performer

Lisa Race

Performer

Claudia-Lynn Rightmire

Performer

Corinne Lohner

Musician, Composer

Sam Crawford

Musician, Composer

Lizzy de Lise

Venue

Damrosch Park

Amsterdam Ave. and West 62nd St., New York, NY 10023

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Lincoln Center Presents In collaboration with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Wednesday, July 9 at 1:00 pm

Lincoln Center Presents In collaboration with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Wednesday, July 9 at 6:00 pm

American Modern Opera Company

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Wednesday, July 9 at 7:00 pm

American Modern Opera Company

Hearst Plaza

Wednesday, July 9 at 7:30 pm

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Wednesday, July 9 at 8:00 pm

The Underground at Jaffe Drive

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In collaboration with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

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In collaboration with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

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In collaboration with NewYork-Presbyterian

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In collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center Presents
In collaboration with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center Presents
In collaboration with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts