The David Rubenstein Atrium (Lincoln Center Atrium) is Lincoln Center’s main ticket office. It also has a TKTS ticket office for Broadway and dance events.
The Atrium presents free concerts and dance parties most Thursdays and Fridays, across the street from the Lincoln Center campus.
- Thursday shows are more musical.
- Friday ¡Vaya! shows are Latin dance parties.
- Saturday shows are more family-oriented.
Events are free, first-come, first-serve. Go at least an hour early.
Latin Culture at the David Rubenstein Atrium
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David Rubenstein Atrium News
MARCH
Latin Soul
Joe Bataan, “The King of Latin Soul,” plays a ¡Vaya! dance party in the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center; on Friday, March 15, 2024 at 7:30pm. FREE. lincolncenter.org 🇵🇭 🇺🇸
Dominican Afro Latina Film
“NEGRITA,” screening with Q&As with New York Dominican filmmaker Magdalena Albizu (@1nubianlatina), explores the experience of being a Black and Latin woman in America, through her own story and the stories of women from the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Honduras, and Panama. It’s in the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center; on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 7:30pm. FREE. lincolncenter.org 🇩🇴 🇭🇳 🇵🇦 🇵🇷
Being Black, Latin, and a woman are three complications, spread across two very different cultural frameworks. Most Latins are taught to deny our African and Indigenous heritage from birth, yet both are core to who we are. Some Americans think they have a God-given right to abuse people of color so being Afro Latin can be life-threatening in a way it isn’t in other countries. Being a woman in the patriarchy is hard enough, but Latin machista male chauvinist culture is extreme.
As Afro Latinas rise above all this, both of our cultural frameworks try to hold us back. So it’s complicated, but also rewarding because women are the guardians of culture, and culture is what makes us human.
David Rubenstein Atrium Tickets
There are no tickets. Shows are free, but entry is first-come, first-serve, so go an hour or two early.
David Rubenstein Atrium
61 West 62nd St
(at Columbus Ave)
Lincoln Center, Manhattan
Subways
(1)(2) to Lincoln Center
(1)(2) to 59th St – Columbus Circle
(A)(C)(B)(D) to 59th St – Columbus Circle
Past Artists
- Aurelio Martínez, Honduran Garifuna folk jazz 🇭🇳
- Boukman Eksperyans, Haitian folk rock. 🇭🇹
- Bulla en el Barrio, Colombian bullerengue (cumbia). 🇨🇴
- Dayramir Gonzalez, Cuban jazz pianist. 🇨🇺
- La Excelencia, Colombian salsa dura. 🇨🇴
- Eddie Palmieri, New York Puerto Rican jazz and salsa legend. 🇵🇷
- Edmar Castañeda, Colombian folk harp. 🇨🇴
- Forro in the Dark, Brazilian forro fusion. 🇧🇷
- Gerardo Contino y Los Habaneros, Cuban timba and jazz. 🇨🇺
- Gregorio Uribe Colombian cumbia, vallenato, and jazz. 🇨🇴
- Holman Trio, Chilean rock. 🇨🇱
- Olga Cerpa y Mestisay, Canary Island folk rock. 🇮🇨 🇪🇸
- Pedrito Martinez Cuban rumba and timba. 🇨🇺
- Pedro Giraudo Argentine tango jazz. 🇦🇷
- Tulipa Ruiz, Brazilian MPB. 🇧🇷
About
The David Rubenstein Atrium is named after The Carlyle Group private equity firm co-founder. He is the chairman of Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and other cultural institutions.