Lincoln Center Sets February Performances for TARGET FREE THURSDAYS

Launched this November, 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 will feature national and International Artists as well as local artists from the New York metropolitan area. The series will also feature artists from Lincoln Center's resident organizations including The Juilliard School, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and The Chamber Music Society, among others, along with artists curated by community-based partners. The series will present a diverse cross-section of musical genres, including pop, Latin, rock, soul, country, jazz, world, classical and new music, as well as spoken word.

The schedule of performances for February follows, below. All performances start at 8:30 p.m. at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, 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, during and immediately following the performance. The Atrium closes at 10 p.m.

For more information, visit www.lincolncenter.org/atrium.

FEBRUARY 4 UNSOUND FESTIVAL NEW YORK - Opening Night
The acclaimed Krakow festival of experimental and post-classical music comes to New York for the first time, for one week, and Lincoln Center hosts the opening night featuring performances by noted artists from the independent and club music scenes.

8:30 p.m. Vladislav Delay and Lillevan U.S. Debut. One of the most innovative musicians working in electronic music today Vladislav Delay (also know to electronic music fans as Luomo) and Lillevan, the acclaimed Finnish video artist who has worked with Fennesz and Morton Subotnik, continue an ongoing collaboration with a brand new free-form audio and visual improvisation created specifically for the Atrium.

9:15 p.m. Sebastian Meissner + Kwartludium = Solid State Transmitters U.S. Debut
Germany's well-known producer of electronic music, Sebastian Meissner, who also works under the name Klimek, collaborates with Kwartludium, one of Poland's most innovative classical/avant-garde quartets. Together, as Solid State Transmitters, they reinterpret the artists and sound of California's legendary punk label SST records, considered to be the most influential and popular underground indie label of the 1980s.

In Conjunction with Unsound Festival New York, video artist Lillevan's Screen Tests, inspired by Andy Warhol's notorious screen tests of the 1960s, will be projected during daytime hours on the Atrium's Media Wall, beginning February 4. It will be presented in collaboration with Unsound Festival, Tone Foundation, the Polish Cultural Institute in New York, the Goethe-Institut New York, and the Consulate General of Finland New York

FEBRUARY 11 at 8:30 p.m. -Year of the Tiger: A Chinese New Year Celebration

Alan Chow, founder and director of the Chinese American Arts Council, curates an evening of performances celebrating the rich culture and traditions of China. The program will include demonstrations of elaborate mask work from Chinese opera, the daring contortions of Chinese acrobatics, and the lyrical elegance of exquisitely-costumed folk dancers. The night promises to be a great start to the rise of an auspicious new lunar year. The performance will be presented in collaboration with Chinese American Arts Council

FEBRUARY 18 at 8:30 p.m.-HÉCTOR DEL CURTO'S ETERNAL TANGO QUARTET

The acclaimed Argentinean bandoneónist, who has shared the stage with tango legends Astor Piazzolla and Osvaldo Pugliese, revives the golden age of tango with his virtuoso Eternal Tango Quartet, to bring a milonga (tango event) to the Atrium.

FEBRUARY 25 at 8:30 p.m.-THE MIGHTY THIRD RAIL

A three-man squadron led by Darian Dauchan, The Mighty Third Rail mixes the elements of hip-hop poetry, beatboxing, violin and bass. Front man Darian is both a Broadway performer (Twentieth Century) and acclaimed poet who was named 2007 Grand Slam Champion of the Bowery Poetry Club's Urbana Slam Team. Together with avant-garde jazz artists Curtis Stewart and Ian J. Baggette, this bold, urban collective creates politically challenging works that push the boundaries of hip-hop to define the next generation's voice. A special Lincoln Center Celebrates Black History Month presentation. www.myspace.com/themightythirdrail

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 has begun 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.

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