2012

Happy Holidays from LCI

Happy Holidays from LCI December 19, 2012 - It has been a wonderfully eventful year for LCI. A year of changes that brought along new ideas and new possibilities. We welcomed a new Executive Director, strengthened our partnership in South Korea, explored Singapore, celebrated a new collaboration with the Alianza Academy in Utah, and saluted the Robert H. Goddard High School for Communication Arts & Technology in Queens as a new LCI Focus School.…

Lincoln Center's American Songbook Expands for 2013

American Songbook 2013 December 19, 2012 - Now in its 15th season, Lincoln Center’s acclaimed series American Songbook will expand its scope to two series and two performing spaces, adding the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse to the traditional Allen Room. Running January 30 through March 2 in the Allen, and March 29 through April 20 in the Kaplan, American Songbook celebrates the best in American singing and songwriting.…

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Newtown December 17, 2012 - Newtown…

Russell Granet Keynote Address at NETC

Russell Granet Delivers Keynote Address at NETC

Russell Granet Delivers Keynote at NETC December 04, 2012 - The New England Theatre Conference is a non-profit dedicated to excellence in all divisions of theatre, including member career development and recognition awards, in addition to nurturing and promoting new theatre activity. Founded in 1952 on the belief that theatre activists have much to offer one another, NETC serves as the place to learn and share that knowledge. Recently, our Executive Director Russell Granet traveled to Boston, MA to address the NETC.Russell Granet Delivers Keynote at NETC…

Reynold Levy to Step Down as President, Lincoln Center

Reynold Levy September 26, 2012 - Reynold Levy, President of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts since March 2002, will step down on December 31, 2013, after an 11-year tenure in which he ushered in a new era at Lincoln Center, announced Lincoln Center Chair Katherine Farley. Mr. Levy led the $1.2 billion critically-acclaimed physical transformation of the 16-acre campus to a successful conclusion, on time and on budget. Under Mr. Levy’s leadership, both audience and community engagement have been expanded by utilizing innovative digital initiatives, free programming and new indoor and outdoor facilities. Altogether, more than $1.3 billion in contributed funds have been raised for Lincoln Center during Mr. Levy’s tenure. He also developed new sources of revenue and produced an unbroken record of balanced and surplus budgets to fuel the operation of the world’s largest, and America’s first, performing arts center.…

LCI Thanks Scott Noppe-Brandon

August 29, 2012 - As Scott Noppe-Brandon departs after 25 years at Lincoln Center Institute, 17 of them as executive director, LCI wishes to thank him for his many contributions to the organization. In his tenure, LCI has grown into one of the world’s preeminent arts-and-education institutions, bringing the arts and learning to millions of students and educators in the U.S. and abroad. Scott’s distinguished legacy includes, most recently, the New Visions Charter High Schools, new schools with LCI as the lead partner that have begun to open around New York City. He leaves behind an appreciative staff ready to use its expertise to take the Institute into the future, led by newly appointed executive director Russell Granet. LCI offers Scott the best of wishes for the next phase of his career.…

Russell Granet Appointed Executive Director, LCI

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LCI Announces a New Focus School Partnership

Goddard students August 07, 2012 - We are delighted to announce that the Robert H. Goddard High School for Communication Arts and Technology in Queens has become an LCI Focus School. For the past three years, Goddard has been working with LCI to meet its arts- and curriculum-based professional development needs. One of the crucial elements that prompted Principal Dr. Joseph J. Birgeles’s decision regarding the long-term commitment is the fact that LCI’s work is aligned with the Common Core Standards.…

Summer Workshop Engages Educators in the Arts

Workshop 2012 July 17, 2012 - As LCI's 2012 Workshop comes to a close, we look at the results of the past two weeks. Fifty-six educators attended, coming from across the U.S. as well as from Brazil, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Tasmania. The participants told us they were impressed with the immersion-to-implementation process, which focuses on the engagements with the arts and the role of the arts in the overall academic curriculum. Equal parts theory and hands-on approach, each week's workshop addressed LCI’s Capacities for Imaginative Learning and offered experiential activities. It took the participants from the performance of The Adventures of Fishy Waters, a multimedia song-and-dialogue performance by Guy Davis, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and back to the classroom, where they compared their observations and expressed them verbally, musically, with movement, and through art making.…

"Dance among the Stars 2012" Benefit on June 28

HSAII students at work June 21, 2012 - On Thursday, June 28, 2012, Fred Astaire Dance Studios will sponsor “Dance Among the Stars 2012” to benefit the High School for Arts, Imagination and Inquiry. HSAII was the first Lincoln Center Institute-founded school to embed LCI’s approach to the arts and education in every class.…