Lincoln Center Festival 09 Line-up Announced, Runs 7/7-7/26

Nigel Redden, Festival Director, today announced the presentations for Lincoln Center Festival 09, which runs from July 7 through July 26, 2009 and offers 56 performances by artists and ensembles from 14 countries. The three-week Lincoln Center Festival 09-boasting 14 North American, U.S., and New York premieres and debuts-will unfold in six venues on and off the Lincoln Center campus, including Alice Tully Hall, where dance will be presented, and Park Avenue Armory, where the Festival returns for a second summer. Tickets will go on sale for all events on March 13.

Ariane Mnouchkine and Le Théâtre du Soleil's Les Éphémères and the Chekhov International Theater Festival production of Pushkin's Boris Godunov, directed by Declan Donnellan-both presented in association with the Park Avenue Armory, site of last summer's staging of Die Soldaten
U.S. debuts by Algerian music icon Idir and Moroccan Chaabi singer Najat Aatabou
Shen Wei Dance Arts' Re - (I, II, III), the first New York performance of the complete three-part work-a special Lincoln Center 50th Anniversary commission
Piccolo Teatro di Milano/Teatri Uniti di Napoli's production of Goldoni's comedy Trilogia della villeggiatura
Poland's Narodowy Stary Teatr with Krystian Lupa's production of Thomas Bernhard's Kalkwerk
Two by Four with the Ruhr, four-hand and two-piano works with Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa, to include the North American premiere of a work by Philip Glass
North American premiere of St. Petersburg's Maly Drama Theatre production of Life and Fate, adapted and directed by Lev Dodin
Two Hungarian companies with premiere productions: U.S. premiere of Béla Pintér and Company's Peasant Opera and Katona József Theatre's New York premiere staging of Chekhov's Ivanov
Afro-Blues for the 21st Century, a double bill featuring Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara, and Issa Bagayogo
Emanuel Gat Dance with Winter Variations and Silent Ballet-two premieres, both Lincoln Center 50th Anniversary commissions
A Tribute to Wardell Quezergue, celebrated New Orleans songwriter, featuring a roster of noted musical artists from that city's annual Ponderosa Stomp music festival.