Brian Laird on WNYC and with summer around the corner, yes, soon enough we'll be complaining about the heat.

We're going to focus on some of the great things summer brings to our culture calendars.

Today, we're zeroing in on dance with Marina Harse, who put together a dance preview for the New Yorkers

going on about town section. She also contributes to the New York Times, New York Review of Books,

Dance Magazine, and other publications, and is author of the book,

The Boy from Kiev, Alexei Ratt Manski's Life in Ballet. Marina Horst, welcome back to the show.

Thanks for joining us. Thank you, Brian. It's nice to be here. Let's start with Lincoln Center and their

annual Summer for the City Festival, where I see all sorts of dancing will be going on

on stages and on the plaza. Can you give us some of the highlights? Yes, this is a newish feature

at Lincoln Center and it's an opportunity to not just watch dance, but take part. It sort of evolved

from midsummer night'sing, one of the more

wonderful institutions in New York. So what they do is they set up this big dance floor in the

middle of Lincoln Center with a giant disco ball. And they, almost every night, it seems,

they have either bands or DJs for dance parties, and there are dance

classes as well. And it's free. So it's really a wonderful way to enjoy that part of town.

That is cool. And some of it I see will be indoors, July 11th and 12th at the Rose Theater,

the big space at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Yes, so that's the extended Lincoln Center area, a little, a few blocks downtown.

So they're holding something called India Week this year at Summer for the City.

And in addition to dance classes and actually bands and people can actually learn some Indian dance,

they're having these two performances by companies that are coming in to town.

One is this really wonderful choreographer and dancer

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