Juilliard’s Annual Earth Month Celebrations Feature Collaborations and Interdisciplinary Performances Exploring Our Impact on the Planet

All Five Events From April 16 to 30 Are Free

Public Is Invited to Dance Workshop With Redhawk Nation Outdoors on Lincoln Center’s Hearst Plaza, the Green Club’s Earth Day Concert at Lincoln Center’s Atrium, and Three Performances at Juilliard Station

[NEW YORK, April 11, 2025]––From April 16 to 30, Juilliard will hold its annual Earth Month celebrations with five free public performances that honor the planet and show how our humanity is inextricably linked to the environment.

Juilliard’s on-campus multidisciplinary student group, the Green Club, once again collaborates with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for their annual multi-genre free Earth Day concert at the David Rubenstein Atrium. Additionally, the school expands its relationship with the Redhawk Native American Arts Council, inviting the public to join a free, outdoor dance workshop on Lincoln Center’s Hearst Plaza in collaboration with the organization and Juilliard Dance. Throughout the week, there will also be three free performances at Juilliard Station, the school’s pop-up space on the corner of 66th and Broadway, featuring interdisciplinary programs including The Voice of the Whale, which weaves readings by Juilliard actors into a performance of George Crumb’s Vox Balaenae for flute, cello, and piano. These five programs center on Juilliard’s connection to the earth while highlighting the school’s commitment to creating interdisciplinary performance opportunities for students as they work with colleagues across the Lincoln Center campus.

Additional programming for the internal community includes a clothing swap, an additional workshop for Dance students with Redhawk Nation, and other green initiatives.

Public performance highlights include: 

• Juilliard Green Club Presents: An Earth Day Concert on Tuesday, April 22 at Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium as part of Lincoln Center Presents: Students from the music, dance, and drama divisions feature in a multi-genre program that poses the question: What does our collective future look like in the face of a changing climate? This annual free event with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts will immerse audiences in artistic works that engage with the past, present, and future of our planet.
• Public Dance Workshop with Redhawk Native American Arts Council and Juilliard Dance on Saturday, April 26 at Lincoln Center’s Hearst Plaza. This free outdoor event invites public audiences to connect with the earth through the region’s indigenous heritage with an hour-long dance workshop led by two of Redhawk Nation’s teaching artists. This collaboration continues Juilliard and Lincoln Center’s work with the Redhawk Native American Arts Council; members from the nation led a centering prayer at last year’s Earth Day Concert at the David Rubenstein Atrium.  

In addition, Juilliard Station will host three free concerts featuring student performances from across the school:

• The Juilliard Fiddle Club kicks things off on Wednesday, April 16. In a program titled Harvest Home, the musical lineup honors the natural beauty of the Northern Hemisphere with folk songs from Ireland, Scotland, and Scandinavia.  
• The school’s Community Engagement Fellows come together on Friday, April 18 for Deep Listening: A Collaborative Meditation for Earth Day, in which performers and attendees together create new soundscapes inspired by the work of composer Pauline Oliveros, building our shared sense of connectedness, community, and awareness of the world around us.
• On April 30, Earth Month programming culminates with Voice of the Whale, a joint presentation by students from Juilliard’s Drama and Music Divisions, curated by Arnhold Creative Associate at Large Nadia Sirota and Creative Enterprise Fellow Derek Wang, who will also be coaching. The program features a performance of George Crumb’s Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale), an homage to the humpback whale he composed after listening to a recording of its calls, interwoven with actors reading dramatic works on themes of ocean and land.

This year’s Earth Month celebrations also include Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK Lincoln Center and Central Park, which launched last year. The location-based sound art is accessed via a free GPS-enabled app that uses original music by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and sound artist Ellen Reid to illuminate the natural environment. Juilliard commissioned a new Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK in Lincoln Center that connects with her existing work in Central Park via Broadway. This expansion includes music by Reid as well as archival recordings from a selection of past performances by Juilliard students. SOUNDWALK is user-guided; the path you choose dictates the music you hear, and no two visits will be the same.

All programs are free and open to the public.  

Program Details

Juilliard Celebrates Earth Month | Juilliard Fiddle Club: Harvest Home
Wednesday, April 16 | 5:30pm
Juilliard Station, 130 W. 66th St., New York, NY 10023

Juilliard Celebrates Earth Month | Deep Listening: A Collaborative Meditation for Earth Day
Friday, April 18 | 6pm
Juilliard Station, 130 W. 66th St., New York, NY 10023

Juilliard Green Club Presents: An Earth Day Concert
Tuesday, April 22 | 7:30pm
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, 1887 Broadway, New York, NY 10023

Juilliard Celebrates Earth Month | Public Dance Workshop With Redhawk Native American Arts Council and Juilliard Dance
Saturday, April 26 | 11am
Hearst Plaza, 30 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023
Inclement weather date: Sunday, April 27 | 11am

Juilliard Celebrates Earth Month | Voice of the Whale
Wednesday, April 30 | 5:30pm
Juilliard Station, 130 W. 66th St., New York, NY 10023

Lead digital sponsor: Bloomberg Philanthropies

Juilliard’s Creative Enterprise programming, including the Creative Associates program, is generously sponsored by Jody and John Arnhold and the Arnhold Foundation.

About The Juilliard School
Founded in 1905, The Juilliard School is a world leader in performing arts education. The school’s mission is to provide the highest caliber of artistic education for gifted musicians, dancers, and actors, composers, choreographers, and playwrights from around the world so that they may achieve their fullest potential as artists, leaders, and global citizens. Led by President Damian Woetzel since 2018, Juilliard is guided in all its work by the core values of excellence; creativity; and equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging (EDIB). Juilliard is committed to enrolling the most talented students regardless of their financial background.

Located at Lincoln Center in New York City, Juilliard offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in dance, drama (acting and playwriting), and music (classical, jazz, historical performance, and vocal arts). Currently more than 800 artists from 43 states and 44 countries and regions are enrolled in Juilliard’s College Division, where they appear in more than 700 annual performances in the school’s five theaters; at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully and David Geffen halls and at Carnegie Hall; as well as at other venues around New York City, the country, and the world. The continuum of learning at Juilliard also includes nearly 400 students from elementary through high school enrolled in the Preparatory Division, including Pre-College and the Music Advancement Program (MAP), which serves students from diverse backgrounds often underrepresented in the classical music field. More than 800 students are enrolled in Juilliard Extension, the flagship continuing education program taught both in person and remotely by a dedicated faculty of performers, creators, and scholars. Beyond its New York campus, Juilliard is defining new directions in performing arts education for a range of learners and enthusiasts through a global K–12 educational curricula as well as precollege and graduate studies at The Tianjin Juilliard School in China.

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Photo: Juilliard students performing in John Luther Adams’ Crossing Open Ground at Lincoln Center in April 2024. By Claudio Papapietro, courtesy of the Juilliard School.