See NYC’s largest outdoor dance floor and its 10-foot disco ball at Lincoln Center
All photos courtesy of Chris Lee
New York City’s largest outdoor dance floor is now open. As part of Lincoln Center’s three-month-long festival Summer for the City, “The Oasis” opened this week with a 10-foot, 1,300-pound disco ball hovering above the institution’s iconic fountain. Designed by costume and set designer Clint Ramos, The Oasis has transformed Josie Robertson Plaza into a dance floor that will host silent discos, live music, dance lessons, and more free events all summer. Summer for the City, which kicked off last month, will feature over 1,000 artists across 10 stages at the famed campus.
On Wednesday, the dance floor hosted its first event of the festival on Wednesday with a performance by the Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra. Over the course of the festival, a variety of programs and activities will be held on the dance floor, including dance classes, dance parties, silent discos, and much more.
The Speakeasy, a separate venue space located underground in Jaffe Drive on the Lincoln Center campus, opens on Saturday for its first event of the festival season.
Summer for the City is also celebrating the start of Pride month, with a series of events and programming that showcase the LGBTQIA+ community running through June 24. Events include dance lessons, music performances, and workshops.
Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City aims to give New Yorkers and festival visitors a place to heal after the pandemic. The event lineup is broken up into three separate phases, “rejoice, reclaim, and remember,” with different events corresponding to these themes.
“One of the most basic jobs of the arts is to help heal. This summer we will do exactly that, with moments to rejoice, reclaim, and remember within a city transformed,” Shanta Thake, the chief artistic director at Lincoln Center, said in April announcing the festival.
“This season is rooted in our fundamental programming values: offering artistic and civic programs reflective of the City of New York, a majority of them free; prioritizing collaboration and first asking artists and their communities what they want from Lincoln Center; being a home for experimentation; and inviting New Yorkers to actively participate in what we will create together.”
Entry to all events at Damrosch Park, The Oasis on Josie Robertson Plaza, the David Rubenstein Atrium, The Deck, Hearst Plaza, and The Speakeasy on Jaffe Drive is free on a first-come, first-serve basis. Tickets for performances in Alice Tully Hall and the Rose Theater will be available on a Choose-What-You-Pay basis.
You can learn more about the festival and see the season’s lineup of events here.
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