Juilliard’s campus at Lincoln Center in New York City.
The Juilliard School in New York City has launched its annual Earth Month celebrations with free and low-cost performances that consider our connection to the natural world. Spanning music, dance, and drama, the monthlong event takes place at Juilliard, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall. This year’s programs offer multiple entry points for audiences to engage with environmental themes through performance, including a participatory jam session, interdisciplinary works, outdoor dance, and music inspired by natural elements. Among the events, the Juilliard Fiddle Club hosts a free public jam session for musicians and singers of all ages, instruments, and abilities centered around themes of the earth and nature. Juilliard musicians and actors will perform Passages, a new work by Juilliard playwright Ethan Luk and Derek Wang, a pianist, Juilliard Creative Enterprise Fellow, and faculty member. Juilliard415, the school’s period-instrument ensemble, will bring the forces of nature together in Les Élémens, part of the Carnegie Hall Presents Juilliard at Zankel Hall series. Performances of Baroque dance suites, directed by violinist Leila Schayegh, will feature new choreography for Juilliard Dancers by Pam Tanowitz. The program, named for Jean-Féry Rebel’s Les Élémens, also includes Handel’s Water Music and other pieces inspired by fire, water, air, and earth. Learn more at juilliard.edu/.
