The art and culture of South India will be the centerpiece of the prestigious music festival held annually at the renowned Lincoln Centre in New York. The 7th season of Lincoln Centre’s ‘White Light Festival’ will open on October 16. Award-wining choreographer Mark Morris will curate a ten-part series on it. The international multidisciplinary festival will have 41 performances in 10 venues over the course of a month, by artists and companies from nine countries. The festival will open with the US premiere of Human Requiem, an intimate and unique theatrical choral event performed by German classical choir Rundfunkchor Berlin.Mark Morris, who has developed a deep relationship with India over three decades, curates this special focus that explores place, culture, tradition, and the creativity of India’s vibrant region. Along with Morris’s own dance company, artists rooted in South Indian classical traditions shed light on the universal nature of India’s artistic heritage and dynamism.The curated series will include performances by Bombay Jayashri, who is trained as a Carnatic vocalist and became internationally known for the lullaby she sang in Ang Lee’s 2012 film, “Life of Pi”; and the all-male Kerala Kalamandalam Kathakali Troupe, who will perform the ‘Dussasana Vadhom’ (The Killing of Dussasana)’. Traditional vocal music dynamo T M Krishna, will shed light on the classical music.A concert by the percussionist V. Selvaganesh will be performed there. The Mark Morris Dance Group will perform two works inspired by India, “O Rangasayee” from 1984 and “Serenade” from 2003, as well as the premiere of a new work set to music by Terry Riley. The all-female troupe Nrityagram will present the “powerful imagery, compelling physicality, and emotional honesty” of the Odissi dance.The festival will also include the return of an innovative production of Monteverdi’s opera “Il ritorno d’Ulisse” (“The Return of Ulysses”) by the South African artist William Kentridge and with puppetry from the Handspring Puppet Company, which appeared in the play “War Horse.” The festival will also have Gianandrea Noseda leading the London Symphony Orchestra in Verdi’s Requiem, which has already been announced; a new work by the Liz Gerring Dance Company; and a performance of Samuel Beckett’s radio play “All That Fall” by Ireland’s Pan Pan Theater.The festival will close on November 16 with the pianist Jeremy Denk playing music from medieval times through the present day.
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