April Target Free Thursdays Events Announced For David Rubenstein Atrium

On April 7, at a special time-7 p.m.-Lincoln Center collaborates with Unsound Festival New York to present a double-bill featuring electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnik collaborating with video artist Lillevan, and for the first time in New York, genre-defying artist Atom^TM. Urban Research Theater premieres its innovative Theatricale (April 17); and Electric Kulintang with Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez on April 21, joins traditional music from the Philippines with contemporary stylings. On April 28, in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Atrium hosts a concert by the Essentially Ellington Alumni All-Stars. Target®Free Thursdays takes place year-round, every Thursday night at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, located on Manhattan's Upper Westside, at Broadway between 62nd and 63rd Streets. Admission is free. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. The 'wichcraft cafe, serving food and drinks, is open before and during performance. For more information, visit www.LincolnCenter.org/Atrium.

COMING TO THE David Rubenstein ATRIUM THIS APRIL

April 7 at 7 p.m. (Note: special time)
UNSOUND FESTIVAL NEW YORK
Modular Dreams
Morton Subotnick's Silver Apples of The Moon; Video by Lillevan
Atom^TM
Co-presented by Fundacja Tone, the Polish Cultural Institute in New York and the Goethe-Institut New York.
Back in New York after last year's critically acclaimed launch, Unsound Festival New York returns to the Atrium for another innovative evening of electronic music and video art. The double bill features rare live appearances by two of the boldest innovators of electronic music. The acclaimed pioneer of electronic music Morton Subotnik revisits his classic first-recording from 1967, Silver Apples of the Moon, collaborating with Berlin-based visual artist Lillevan, whose work was featured at last year's Atrium performance. And Atom^TM, alias for the ever-inventive German electronic musician, Santiago-based Uwe Schmidt (who also goes by Atom Heart, Lisa Carbon, Coeur Atomique Datacide, Flanger, Flextone, and Señor Coconut) makes a long overdue, first-ever live appearance with a set that joins music and video. Unsound Festival New York 2011 runs from April 1-10. For more information visit: http://unsound.pl/en

April 14 at 8:30 p.m.
URBAN RESEARCH THEATER
THEATRICALE World Premiere
Directed by Maximilian Balduzzi
Songs and Text by Ben Spatz and William Shakespeare
Ensemble: Douglas Allen, Claro Austria, Kasidy Devlin, Sara Galassini, Mara Radulovic, Raphael Sacks, Ben Spatz, Liz Stanton and Elizabeth Hope Williams
Urban Research Theater will present a new ensemble-based work, Theatricale which integrates text with song and action and pushes the limits of theatricality. Urban Research Theater develops original performances out of a continuous, long-term practice of research. The ensemble is committed to integrating narrative and image with irreducible "liveness" in performance that draws on the theatrical legacies of Konstantin Stanislavski and Jerzy Grotowski, as well as postmodern dance and performance art. Urban Research Theater was founded by Ben Spatz in Wroclaw, Poland in 2004, with support from a Fulbright Fellowship and the Grotowski Institute. Since its founding, Urban Research Theater has led over forty public events in the United States and Europe. The group defines itself as a performance laboratory for the twenty-first century. For more artist information visit: urbanresearchtheater.com/site/perf_theatricale.htm

April 21 at 8:30 p.m.
ELECTRIC KULINTANG
Composers/percussionists: Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez
Kulintang, a style of traditional music from the Philippines and elsewhere in Southeast Asia gets a contemporary update in Electric Kulintang. Composer/percussionists Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez formed Electric Kulintang in 2005 after traveling to the Philippines to research live Kulintang music and dance. Kulintang, broadly describes a style of music named for an ancient percussion instrument that consists of horizontally-placed gongs. With Rodriguez programming beats and Ibarra composing the music and doing vocals, traditional Kulintang is integrated with field recordings, jazz drumming, dance beats, electric keyboards, guitars, noise and Cuban percussion. The duo's debut album, Dialects, was released in 2007. Filipina-American Susie Ibarra has performed and recorded with John Zorn, Dave Douglas, Pauline Oliveros, Thurston Moore and Yo La Tengo, among others, while Havana-born Roberto Rodriguez has played percussion for Rufus Wainwright, Joe Jackson, Marc Ribot, Celia Cruz, Paquito D'Rivera, Julio Iglesias, Miami Sound Machine and Paul Simon, among others. For more information about the artists visit: electrickulintang.com.

April 28 at 8:30 p.m.
ESSENTIALLY ELLINGTON ALUMNI ALL-STARS
Presented in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center
An all-star ensemble of Essentially Ellington alumni plays the music of Duke Ellington and celebrates the 16th anniversary of the annual Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) education event that invites select high school jazz bands from across North America to spend three days immersed in workshops, rehearsals, jam sessions, and performances at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Alumni of Essentially Ellington (High School Jazz Band Program) include Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra bassist Carlos Henriquez, saxophonist Erika von Kleist, and bassist David Wong. Join us for this special performance that leads up to the Final Concert and Awards Ceremony of the annual Competition & Festival at Avery Fisher Hall on May 14. More information about Essentially Ellington is available at: jalc.org/EssentiallyEllington.

Launched in November 2009, Target® Free Thursdays offers free public performances by a wide-range of artists every Thursday night throughout the year at the new David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, a vibrant new public facility on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is partnering with Target® to sponsor the series. Curated by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., Target® Free Thursdays performances feature national and International Artists as well as local artists. The series also features artists from Lincoln Center's resident organizations including The Juilliard School, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Chamber Music Society, among others, along with artists curated by community-based partners. The series presents a diverse cross-section of musical genres, including pop, Latin, rock, soul, country, jazz, world, classical and new music, as well as spoken word, multi-media and dance performances.

The David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, the new community, visitors and ticketing facility, is home to an array of programs, services and amenities designed for area residents, out-of-towners and visitors to Lincoln Center. This new public space is named in honor of the philanthropist, financier and Vice Chairman of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in recognition of his $10 million gift to the Bravo Campaign. Serving as a gateway to Lincoln Center and the entire Upper West Side community, the Atrium offers-for the first time in Lincoln Center history-day-of discount tickets to available performances across the campus in addition to access to full-price tickets via onsite kiosks and telephone services. Along with free performances, including Target® Free Thursdays every Thursday night of the year, and Meet the Artist Saturdays-free, family-friendly participatory programs at 11 a.m. on the first Saturday of every month-other attractions and amenities in the Atrium include: a 'wichcraft café, a departure point for expanded Lincoln Center tours, a staffed Information Desk, free Wi-Fi, and restrooms.

About Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center is the world's leading performing arts complex, representing the highest standards of excellence in opera, symphonic and chamber music, theater, dance, film, and arts education. Its 12 resident organizations - The Chamber Music Society, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., Lincoln Center Theater, The Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet, New York City Opera, New York Philharmonic, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and School of American Ballet - welcome 5 million visitors each year. After five decades of artistic excellence and service to its community, the nation and the world, Lincoln Center is nearing completion on a major transformation initiative to fully modernize its concert halls and public spaces, renew its 16-acre campus, and reinforce its vitality for decades to come.

About Target

Minneapolis-based Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) serves guests at 1,744 stores in 49 states nationwide and at Target.com. Target is committed to providing a fun and convenient shopping experience with access to unique and highly differentiated products at affordable prices. Since 1946, the corporation has given 5 percent of its income through community grants and programs like Take Charge of Education. Today, that giving equals more than $3 million a week.

General operating support for the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center has generously been provided by David M. Rubenstein, the Ford Foundation, Booth Ferris Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation New York City Cultural Innovation Fund, Algin Management Co., LLC, the Altman Foundation, Cushman & Wakefield, The Mai Family Foundation, the Xerox Foundation, and the Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.

Discounted tickets to Lincoln Center events are made possible in part by a generous gift from the Peter Jay Sharp Foundation.

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