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Details Announced for the 2000 Lincoln Center Festival

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts recently announced the schedule for the fifth Lincoln Center Festival, taking place Tuesday, July 11 through Sunday, July 30, 2000. The festival will boast the U.S. premiere of De Nederlandse Opera production of Writing to Vermeer by Louis Andriessen and Peter Greenaway and a major celebration of Russian ballet and theater with the first New York appearance of the Bolshoi Ballet in ten years. The Bolshoi brings its new production of Giselle as well as a mixed program. The Maly Theatre of St. Petersburg will perform the New York premiere of its lauded epic, Brothers and Sisters. Moscow's Vakhtangov Theater makes its U.S. debut with Innocent as Charged by Alexander Ostrovsky. France's Les Colporteurs bring the New York premiere of Filao to their circus tent in Damrosch Park. The music of Olivier Messiaen will be celebrated; composer Meredith Monk will be honored. There will be a five-part series of music from the Caribbean and a five-part series devoted to electronic music. In addition to the Bolshoi, dance will be represented by Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus who brings his company, Ultima Vez, with a U.S. premiere with music by David Byrne; French choreographer Mathilde Monnier and her eponymous company with a New York premiere; two New York premieres by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company; and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater with a world premiere by Artistic Director Judith Jamison. Lincoln Center Theater will be represented by Spinning Into Butter, a new play by Rebecca Gilman, and the New York Video Festival returns for its fifth season.

Lincoln Center Festival 2000 will feature a total of 108 performances of 29 events, including 16 premieres and debuts. Five Lincoln Center constituent companies - The New York Philharmonic, Lincoln Center Theater, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The New York City Opera Orchestra, and The Film Society of Lincoln Center - will join with companies and performing artists from 20 countries for the Festival, which will fill 12 venues, including Lincoln Center theaters, its public spaces, and neighboring facilities.

The Lincoln Center Festival is a presentation of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which is responsible for over 350 performances produced and presented annually through such series as Great Performers, the Mostly Mozart Festival, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, and Lincoln Center's American Songbook. Separate from the superb offerings of the other Lincoln Center-based organizations, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts showcases performance achievement of the highest caliber spanning a diversity of repertoire and disciplines, with a special emphasis on music. Other activities of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. include national telecasts through the Emmy Award-winning Live From Lincoln Center, arts-in-education through the Lincoln Center Institute, and general support, maintenance, and coordination of the Lincoln Center campus. Lincoln Center Festival 2000 is sponsored by Bloomberg News, Lexus, AT&T, Philip Morris Companies Inc., and Time Warner Inc.