Halfway through its 40th FREE season of international and avant garde music and dance Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival is in full swing. Since it was launched as a small festival of street theater in 1971, Out of Doors has commissioned some 90 works from composers and choreographers and presented hundreds of major dance companies, world-renowned musicians and legendary jazz, folk, gospel, blues and rock performers. Events take place all over the Lincoln Center campus (between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues, West 65th Street to West 62nd Street)—from the lawn of the new Hearst Plaza/Barclays Capital Grove and Damrosch Park to Josie Robertson Plaza and Broadway Plaza. For a complete schedule, visit LCOutofDoors or call 212-875-5766.

Thurs., Aug. 5, 7:30 p.m.
Paul Taylor Dance Company & Taylor 2
80th Birthday Celebration
Damrosch Park Bandshell
Performing together for the first time, both companies celebrate dance legend Paul Taylor’s 80th birthday. The PTDC performs Airs, Syzygy, and Company B, while Taylor 2 dances his signature masterpiece Esplanade; also, a live collaboration with Asphalt Orchestra (see Aug. 7 below) performing an original arrangement of the score to 3 Epitaphs.

Fri., Aug. 6, 7:30 p.m.
Hallogallo 2010!
Hermeto Pascoal
Damrosch Park Bandshell
In an unusual double bill, Hallogallo 2010 combines the krautrock music of Neu! performed by Michael Rother & Friends with the jazz-based experimentalism of Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal.

Sat., Aug. 7, 4 p.m.
Family Day
Puppet Pageant: Pride and Prejudice and New York Real Estate
Hearst Plaza/Barclays Capital Grove
A world premiere from Puppeteers’ Cooperative.

Sat., Aug. 7, 6 p.m.
Asphalt Orchestra
Hearst Plaza
This 12-piece marching band’s international repertoire of processional music features world premiere commissions by Yoko Ono and David Byrne with Annie Clark.

Sat., Aug. 7, 7p.m.
Balkan Beat Box
Mucca Pazza
Damrosch Park Bandshell
Balkan Beat Box transforms Balkan-Mediterranean traditions, punk, electronic, jazz and hiphop while the 30-plus member circus punk marching band Mucca Pazza shows off its brass.

Sun., Aug. 8, 2 p.m.
Heritage Sunday
Yuri Yunakov, Zikrayat, The Maeandros Ensemble
Hearst Plaza/Barclays Capital Grove
Saxophonist Yuri Yunakov’s ensemble features multicultural music from Bulgarian Gypsy communities and native Romani wedding music. The ensemble of oud virtuoso Mavrothi Kontanis’ Maeandros “meanders” through Greek folk and urban song, Ottoman court music and regional originals. Zikrayat plays music from the golden age of Egyptian film as well as classical music and dance from throughout the Arab world.

(6 p.m.-Catch the Asphalt Orchestra at 6 p.m. on Broadway Plaza)
7:30 p.m.
S.O.S. (Saving Our Soul) – From the Big Easy to the Big Apple
Soul Rebels Brass Band
Wild Magnolias
Glen David Andrews
Damrosch Park Bandshell
Crescent City street bands commemorate the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Thurs., Aug. 12, 7 p.m.
Chinese American Arts Council: Lion Dance
Josie Robertson Plaza
The 2,000-year-old Lion Dance is said to bring luck, peace and happiness through its acrobatic and martial movements.

Thurs., Aug. 12, 7p.m.
SLAMMIN All-Body Band
Celina Kalluk and Lucie Idlout
Derique McGee
Damrosch Park Bandshell
The International Body Music Festival concert explores possibilities of the human instrument by traditional and contemporary artists from the Americas: Brazil’s 12-member “circle orchestra” Barbatuques in its New York debut; the Bay Area’s SLAMMIN All-Body Band; Inuit throat singers Celina Kalluk and Lucie Idlout from Nunavut, Canada; and African American hambone artist Derique McGee.

Fri., Aug. 13 at 6p.m.
Gamelan Galak Tika
Kecak workshop and Belaganjur (Marching Gamelan)
Broadway Plaza
Christine Southworth and Evan Ziporyn lead Kecak, Bali’s “Monkey Chant, followed by a processional performance of belaganjur, festive, polyrhythmic “marching gamelan.”

7:30 p.m.
Kronos Quartet with
Gamelan Galak Tika
Kenge Kenge (New York Debut)
Damrosch Park Bandshell
Contemporary musicians, the Kronos Quartet, perform works by Steve Reich, Café Tacuba, and the world premiere of Christine Southworth’s Super Collider. Kenge Kenge use the indigenous one-string fiddle, flutes and drums to explore Kenya’s Luo musical roots.

Sat., Aug. 14. 7:30 p.m.
La Raza Latina, a Salsa Suite
Reuben Blades, Adonis Puentes
Bobby Sanabria Big Band
Damrosch Park Bandshell
The long-awaited New York premiere of this landmark 1977 suite conducted by Larry Harlow and performed by a 40-piece orchestra and chorus playing music by Harlow, Johnny Ortiz, Rudy Calzado, and Tito Puente. Blades recreates his lead vocals from the original Fania recording—joined by Cuban singer Puentes and The Masacote Dance Company. Bobby Sanabria’s Big Band opens with a set of Afro-Cuban jazz

Sun., Aug. 15, 7:00 p.m.
Dance
Choreography: Lucinda Childs; Music: Philip Glass
Film: Sol Lewitt,
Brian Brooks Moving Company: Motor
(World Premiere)
Damrosch Park Bandshell
Dance—considered revolutionary at its premiere 30 years ago—was choreographed by Childs to an original Glass score and is now framed by LeWitt’s larger-than-life film of the original performers. Projected onto a translucent scrim the combination creates a flowing interplay of past and present. From the back of the stage, Brian Brooks’ Motor sends out hundreds of sky-blue cables that create a tunnel- like space over both audience and performers.

Sun., Aug. 22, 2 p.m.-6 p.m.
26th Annual Roots of American Music Festival,
Barclay’s Capital Grove
“In the Spirit of Odetta,” with Tommy Sands and Fionan and Moya; Calypso Rose; The Holmes Brothers; and Ramblin’ Jack Elliot

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