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Meredith Monk's The Soul's Messenger will open Lincoln Center's White Light Festival, with a performance on October 28 at 8:30pm at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center. The Festival will continue through November 18 at various venues throughout Manhattan.

The festival will include 21 performances as well as panel discussions, a sound-art installation, and pre and post performance talks and feature artists and companies from not only the U.S., but also Belgium, China, Croatia, Estonia, Georgia, Germany, Iceland, India, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Russia, and the U.K.

Among the other offerings in the Festival will be a concert by Antony and the Johnsons (October 30, Avery Fisher Hall); the U.S. premiere of director-choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Sutra (November 2-4, Frederick P. Rose Hall), which will feature visual design by Antony Gormley and music by Szymon Brzóska, and be performed by monks from the Shaolin Temple; the New York premiere of Judith (November 3-6, Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse), which brings a Croatian Renaissance retelling of the biblical story of Judith to the stage with text and spoken word; and XX performances of Late Night Elegies (November 11-13 , Kaplan Penthouse), which will feature pianist Alexei Lubimov and the Latvian National Choir.

For further information, visit: www.lincolncenter.org.