Brian Laird on W.N. Y.C. 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 Hars, who put together a dance preview

for the New Yorkers goings 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 Kyiv Alexei Ratmanski's life in Ballet.

Marina Harse, 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 Swing, 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 night it seems they have either bands or

dejays for dance parties and there are dance classes as well and it's free so 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.

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